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Keywords: light, Sun Pillar, ice crystals
![Красно-фиолетовый солнечный столб](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/06/0001211426/sunpillar_kirkpatrick.preview.jpg)
5.02.2006
Sometimes the unknown is beautiful. In 2000 February near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, two amateur photographers noticed an unusual red column of light rise mysteriously from a setting sun. During the next few minutes, they were able to capture the pillar and a photogenic sunset on film.
![Гало вокруг Луны](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/21/0001189183/moonhalo_mccay.preview.jpg)
21.04.2003
Have you ever seen a halo around the Moon? This fairly common sight occurs when high thin clouds containing millions of tiny ice crystals cover much of the sky. Each ice crystal acts like a miniature lens.
![Солнечное гало над Теннесси](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/03/09/0001204790/sunhalo_vydor.preview.jpg)
9.03.2005
Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed.
![Свет от планеты вне солнечной системы](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/04/05/0001205073/planeteclipse_spitzer.preview.jpg)
5.04.2005
Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated in the above drawing, had its light detected by comparing the brightness of only...
![Солнечный столб](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/05/05/0001213914/sunpillar_noaa_big.preview.jpg)
6.07.1999
Have you ever seen a sun pillar? When the air is cold and the Sun is rising or setting, falling ice crystals can reflect sunlight and create an unusual column of light. Ice sometimes forms flat, stop-sign shaped crystals as it falls from high-level clouds.
![Разноцветные столбы света](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/03/06/0001212038/pillars_tape.preview.jpg)
5.03.2006
How can an aurora appear so near the ground? Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light pillars, a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth...
![Рентгеновские радуги](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/09/29/0001179913/xtej1118_xray.preview.jpg)
28.09.2002
A drop of water or prism of glass can spread out visible sunlight into a rainbow of colors. In order of increasing energy, the well known spectrum of colors in a rainbow runs red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
![Рентгеновские радуги](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/09/29/0001179910/xtej1118_xray.preview.jpg)
11.05.2001
A drop of water or prism of glass can spread out visible sunlight into a rainbow of colors. In order of increasing energy, the well known spectrum of colors in a rainbow runs red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
![Замерзшие изображения](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/02/26/0001203055/illume_wasilewski_full.preview.jpg)
26.02.2005
Scientific images of cosmic dust clouds or even frozen water can be esthetic too. In fact, this picture of thin layers of forming ice crystals uses a scientific understanding of light's wave properties solely for artistic purposes. Titled "Illume", the picture was created by astrophysicist Peter Wasilewski.
![Восход тройного Солнца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/09/25/0001216537/ColdMorningSun_hoida_c65.preview.jpg)
23.09.2006
Today, the Sun rises due east at the Equinox, a geocentric astronomical event that occurs twice a year. To celebrate, consider this view of the rising Sun and a lovely set of ice halos recorded on a cold winter morning near Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA, planet Earth.
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