"Two suns" were recently seen in Chongqing's Nanchuan District. The sighting was actually an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as a "parhelion" which occurs when hexagonal ice crystals in the atmosphere refract sunlight and form a halo around the sun. It can only be observed from a right angle and with the presence of thin and transparent cirrostratus clouds.
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