Light pillars

In one night, nature photographer John Ashley caught contrasting images of two very different light displays in the sky.

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

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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…

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

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.

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A photo posted by Timmy Joe (youtuber!¡) (@watchtimmyjoe) on Jan 5, 2017 at 11:55pm PST Tech vlogger Timmy Joe, who lives up in Northern Ontario, went