In meteorology, an aureole is the inner disk of a corona, an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of light from the Sun or the Moon (or, occasionally, other bright light sources) [10] by individual small water droplets and sometimes tiny ice crystals of a cloud or on a foggy glass surface. More @Wikipedia
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