Light Pillars News Today

An image shared on Monday shows features known as “light pillars" beaming between the snowy ground and gray clouds in southwestern Canada.

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.

A captivating display in the Minnesota night sky dazzled skywatchers last Thursday. Experts explain how these light pillars occur.

"Light pillars are an optical phenomenon caused when light is refracted by ice crystals. These lights tend to take on the color of the light source."

The "optical atmospheric phenomena" above Jeju City, South Korea, were formed by "plate-shaped ice crystals" that beam light to Earth, an expert told Newsweek.

A photographer was left baffled after he captured a series of strange lights over a city in South Korea yesterday (Monday).

We are in Fall, but we know winter is coming. The winters in the Texas Panhandle are moody. So what can we expect?

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

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

It looked like Billings was under an alien attack last night, as the skyline filled with ice pillars.