noun
glory (optical phenomenon); anticorona
A meteorological optical phenomenon: colored rings around the shadow of the observer's head on a cloud or fog bank. Also called 御来迎 (ごらいごう) in Japanese, especially in a Buddhist context.
See also: 御来迎
飛行機から雲に映った自分の影の周りにグローリーが見えた。
From the airplane, I saw a glory around the shadow of myself cast on the clouds.
御来迎 is the traditional Japanese term for the same phenomenon, often with a religious nuance (Buddha's halo). グローリー is the scientific loanword.
Loanword from English 'glory', referring to the optical phenomenon.