Light pillars

Light Pillars a Million-Mirror Optical Illusion on Winter Nights

Another great picture of light pillars. They occur when natural or artificial light reflects off flat ice crystals in the air close to the Earth’s surface. This from Sunday night in Columbia Falls,...

On November 5, 2014, Fairbanks was transformed into a magical place as mysterious light pillars transcended green auroras dancing over Fairbanks, Alaska.

Standing around in cold, dipping temperatures may not sound like an ideal situation to be in, but incredible atmospheric phenomena can actually form in

The natural phenomenon known as light pillars are making headlines once again due to one photographer's incredible capture of them one recent cold and

Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint luminous flashes that appear directly above an active thunderstorm and coincide with powerful lightning strikes. Blue jets too are a high altitude optical phenomenon, but are different from sprites. They were first documented in 1994. Blue jets are optical ejections from the…

But maybe, from time to time, inspiration just might be found by stepping outside of the two-dimensional world and into the three-dimensional, original source of beauty—nature. So the next time you’re tempted to stay inside and stare at the screen, try taking a stroll on a cold winter’s night.

While Elon Musk and his followers are planning to colonize Mars, our home planet keeps surprising and delighting us. The photographs of Earth with no photoshopping or filters remind us of some scenes from fantastic movies or open doors to parallel universes showing the world around us from a completely different, mesmerizing, and captivating side.

Here is a compilation of rare natural phenomenon that inspires awe and wonder. 1. Blue Jets and Red Sprites Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint

Stunning pictures of the rare phenomenon were captured over Alberta and Ontario in Canada after temperatures plunged to as low as minus 18 causing moisture in the air to freeze.