Have you ever seen a CHROMOSPHERE ?

On the way to Sunday lunch I was checking twitter and saw a tweet from Joyce the Fairy about a 'rainbow ring' around the Sun

Immediately I looked to the sky (with my sunnies on of course, as it helps to prevent sun-blindness!) and saw this :


A viral twitter chat that ensued between myself, the Fairy & Koobz as we exchanged our photos and discussed the resulting BLINDNESS that the 2 experienced *duh* hehehe

Thanks to the scientific knowledge of the Fairy, we learnt that this phenomenon is known as a CHROMOSPHERE. Usually we see this during the eclipse of the sun...a glowing ring which is the Sun's atmosphere


Wikipedia tells us this : The chromosphere (literally, "color sphere") is a thin layer of the Sun's atmosphere just above the photosphere, roughly 2,000 kilometres deep.

Check out the Fairy's coverage of said phenomenon here

I realised that despite the current state of disrepair our Earth is in with the increasing frequency of natural disasters (more recent the Earthquake in China, Icelandic Volcanic ash crippling global air travel in & out of Europe & the Tornado in our very own Petaling Jaya), Mother Nature is still able to remind us of the beauty of our planet and why we really need to make changes to our disastrous existence NOW
Will we learn and make changes before it's too late? Or is it already too late?

*sigh*