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In May 2016, a photograph began to make the online rounds, purportedly showing eight rainbows in the sky — all at the same time — over Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania: Although this image was often shared as legitimate, it was based on a photograph that has been digitally manipulated. The image was originally a picture of a multiple rainbow uploaded to:Imgur in 2014: While the triple rainbow photograph (a faint fourth rainbow can be spotted on the right of the picture) is most likely authentic, little information is available about when and where it was taken. In April 2015, a similar photograph circulated on the web. Paul Neiman, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Observatory, explained that these quadruple rainbows do exist, but only under rare conditions. They come from two different light sources -- the sun and a large reflective surface, such as a lake: The rainbows in this case do, however, comply with the laws of physics, unlike the ones in the doctored, eight-rainbow photograph.
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