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Keywords: light, Sun Pillar, ice crystals
![Солнечный столб над штатом Мэн](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/01/03/0001210773/pillarmaine_orloski.preview.jpg)
2.01.2006
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/2002/09/02/0001179487/pillars_tape.preview.jpg)
2.09.2002
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...
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