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 ...

An energy company employee in the Canadian province of Manitoba has captured a spectacular image of a rarely seen phenomenon characterized by pillars of light "shooting skyward." The photo was taken ...

In what seemed like a scene straight out of a superhero movie, a bizarre vertical stream of light was seen illuminating the night sky above Detroit and parts of Ontario on Tuesday. Images of the ...