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n. - A bright spot on a luminous circle that is parallel to the horizon.

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  • The Nibiru explanations on the reacent Photos are Sun dog A sun dog or sundog (scientific name parhelion, plural parhelia, for "beside the sun".
  • At 5 a.m. a beautiful parhelion formed around the sun.
  • I do not always know him in these cases as my own parhelion.
  • This vision, which in all probability was only a parhelion, exaggerated by
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