What look like light sabers or giant spotlights shooting straight up in the sky, light pillars are one of the most magnificent optical illusions. Light pillars occur when plate-shaped ice crystals are ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - At night, when temperatures are exceptionally cold, a phenomenon can occur in the sky. Spikes of light, reaching high up! They look like beams shooting up into space, and these ...

Jay Peak in Vermont has a lot to brag about. Lots of snow, hardcore ski culture, and... light pillar sightings? A beautiful photo posted to Instagram today showcased the phenomenon. The sky almost ...

Many of our viewers sent in pictures today of sun dogs around the sun this afternoon. Sun dogs form in frigid temperatures and they are the rainbows that you see forming around the sun like a halo. If ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — When the temperatures drop, the skies can really light up. Cold arctic air can play tricks with the eyes much like dry hot air in the desert. In arid regions very hot air can cause ...

Stunning light pillars illuminated the night sky north of St. Petersburg, Russia, in a breathtaking natural display in ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Early risers on a frigid Wednesday morning in Kalamazoo were treated to a rare sight in the sky. Horizontal beams of light appeared to stretch upwards from the horizon, resembling ...

An image shared on Monday shows features known as "light pillars" beaming between the snowy ground and gray clouds in southwestern Canada. "Mind blowing light pillars in our little village of Alix, ...

Light pillars are a common effect from tiny crystals of ice in the atmosphere that can be found all over the world, the National Weather Service. Tiny ice crystals hanging in the atmosphere, with ...

It was a frigid morning in Garrett County, Md., when Josh Brenneman encountered an incredible scene on his drive to work. The rising sun was surrounded by a perfect semicircle of colored light, like a ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Wintry weather provides plenty of spectacular sights around Colorado, including light pillars that look like something out of a science fiction movie. Colorado Springs ...