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Up above the streets and houses,  Rainbow climbing high.  Everyone can see it smiling,  Over the sky.’    From the theme tune to British children’s television series Rainbow (1972-1992), performed by the band Telltale.A circumzenithal arc spotted over Buzancy, France by Andy Forsey (Member 19,754). Though this optical effect looks like an upside-down rainbow, it has nothing to do with rain and forms in a different part of the sky – directly above, rather than on the horizon. Circumzenithal arcs appear as sunlight refracts through tiny hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals, like the ones in these Cirrus clouds, which are high enough in the sky for everyone to see them smiling.