The emergence of fourth of the sun in China has become a hot topics and spread the news on Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger and regard it as a sign of doomsday.The emergence of fourth of the sun video was discussed among BlackBerry users. Not only that, Twitter and Facebook users active discuss this phenomenon too.
"The emergence of fourth of the sun, rain of frogs, rain of blood, so what's next?" Ninot said , a Twitter users.
Some users questioned whether the phenomenon is part of a natural occurrence or just a hoax someone is editing the image.
Video displays such a line round each of which was passed by four points clear light of the sun.
It was also confirmed by Thomas Djamaludin, senior researcher of astronomy and astrophysics at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN), when contacted on Wednesday (25 / 8).
"This phenomenon is called as a sun dog or guard dog of the sun. Ordinary light appears on the left-right of halo , so often seen the sun despite its smaller size", he said.
It is caused by sunlight refracted by ice crystals. It usually appears in the horizon where the sun rises not too far from the horizon or skyline, he said.
"Conditions, around the direction of the sun comes up the ice crystals that refract light. Usually, there are two phenomena that is halo and sun dogs."
Especially for halo, according to Thomas, Indonesia often experience the same event, although not with a sun dog.
"It's just a refraction of sunlight that appear due to the condition of the upper layer of very cold cloud cyrus. It's not unusual phenomenon," Thomas said.
