Hovering in the sky, this rainbow cloud over Mount Everest took an astonished astronomer by surprise.
盤踞在珠穆朗瑪峰上空中的彩虹云讓一名天文學(xué)家震驚不已。

Oleg Bartunov, 51, caught the spectacle on camera during a Himalayas expedition in Nepal.
51歲的奧勒格·巴爾圖諾夫在尼泊爾考察喜馬拉雅山時(shí)拍下了這一奇觀。

The phenomenon is caused by light reflecting off tiny ice crystals inside the body of the cloud's water vapour.
云中的水蒸氣里含有細(xì)小的冰晶，它們反射的光線形成了這一現(xiàn)象。

'I only took a couple of shots as I was overwhelmed with feelings and wanted to see everything with my eyes and prolong the moment,' Mr Bartunov said.
巴爾圖諾夫說(shuō)：“我只拍了2張照片，我太激動(dòng)了，想要看著這一切，希望時(shí)間能夠過(guò)的慢點(diǎn)?！?/div>

'The light was coming from the sun, which was right under the clouds at the perfect angle to create the magical effect.'
“光線來(lái)自云背后的太陽(yáng)，角度剛剛好，形成了這個(gè)魔幻效果?！?/div>

When he witnessed the event he could hardly believe this eyes, so asked others nearby to confirm that it really was a rainbow cloud.
當(dāng)看見(jiàn)這些時(shí)，他幾乎不敢相信自己的眼睛，于是向附近的人確認(rèn)這是否真的是彩虹云。

Mr Bartunov, who is a fellow at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow, said: 'There was a group of elderly English women there.’
莫斯科斯特恩伯格天文研究所的學(xué)者巴爾圖諾夫說(shuō)：“那兒有一群英國(guó)老婦?！?/div>

'I told them to look at the clouds and they started to moan and sigh and started to photograph the clouds with their small photo cameras.'
“我讓她們看云，她們一邊感嘆一邊用小相機(jī)拍起云來(lái)?！?/div>

'Later I asked many local people who were there if they saw these clouds,' he added. 'Not many had seen them before either, so it must be a very rare event.’
“后來(lái)我問(wèn)不少在場(chǎng)當(dāng)?shù)厝擞袥](méi)有看見(jiàn)那些云。很多人之前也沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)，所以它一定很罕見(jiàn)的?！?/div>

‘It's not a surprise as people rarely watch the sky at that altitude because the sun's rays are more harmful to the eyes up there.'
“那個(gè)海拔的人們不怎么抬頭看天，這并不奇怪，因?yàn)槟抢锏年?yáng)光對(duì)眼睛有害?！?/div>

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