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The angle of diffraction is related to the wavelength. So each wavelength in the beams of sunlight, passing through a collection of droplets, are diffracted up, down, and sideways by the same amount. They, therefore, form a circular image. The earth-sun distance virtually ensures that the sunbeams are parallel and so the undiffracted direction will be at the centre of these concentric circles.

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