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The solar halo in the Siliguri sky on Wednesday. Picture by Kundan Yolmo

Siliguri, Sept. 10: A halo around the sun seen from Siliguri this morning triggered curiosity as well as rumours as it coincided with the start of the Big Bang experiment in Geneva.

When the aura around the sun became visible around 11.30am, the people of the town started making calls to their near and dear ones, trying to gauge what exactly the phenomenon was.