This is a drone video captured by astrophotographer Göran Strand of a sunbow rising over Östersund, Sweden. The sunbow (technically a solar halo) was caused by the sunlight interacting with frozen ice particles in the air, causing the light to be refracted. Crazy, right? Still, I would hate to be

This is a timelapse video from Youtuber Mieze Cat of their eight(!) feline companions following the sun from the windows throughout the day. I particularly liked the ones that tried to get in the little sliver of sun from the other window. What can I say, cats: they love laying

This is a visualization imagining you’re a beam of light leaving the sun and traveling out of our solar system at the speed of light. I mean what other speed would you be traveling, you are a beam of light after all. And I mean that too — you’re a

The Water Shade Canopy Float (Amazon link) is a kit designed for use with a four-post canopy tent (not included) that allows the unit to float on water, bringing shade to a lake or pool. That way you can drink cheap canned beer away from the blinding rays of the

Because there’s a market for absolutely everything, this is the Kickstarter for ‘The Brow’, a pair of $45 sun-shaders that are worn like sunglasses but don’t have any lenses, instead shielding your eyes via little brow-level visors. Where was Oakley on this? These look right up their alley. Obviously, these

To remind myself of sunnier time during this cold, snowy day, this is a video of a sunburnt man mashing a boy’s head into his belly so it briefly leaves a surprisingly detailed imprint of the child’s face. And while the imprint may have disappeared after a few seconds, the

This is a video of science experimenter and TikTok user Joemyheck using a massive lens to focus the sun’s energy on a tiny pinpoint on a rock, harnessing so much power it’s able to spawl, fracture, and melt the rock, eventually cracking it in half, forming a crack rock. Wow!

Because nobody needs to know who I am or what I’m looking at or if I have a boogie, these are the ‘Oversized Huge Big Mask Shield Full Face Polarized Large Mirror Sunglasses’ from brand vvovvug and available on Amazon. They remind me of a motorcycle helmet visor, but with