eli5: Does light refraction extend to the non-visible light specturm when a rainbow is created?

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I was just thinking about how amazing rainbows are and how lucky we are that we can see them. But I was also wondering if other animals or hypothetical aliens that can see different spectra of light can also see something in the sky or is it just coincidentally just visible light?

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It’s the whole spectrum, even stuff we can’t see. That red becomes infrared and that violet becomes ultraviolet, the stuff we see is just in the range we can see

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