DENVER (KDVR) — If you were looking up at the sky during sunrise on Friday morning and noticed a ray of light shooting up from the sunrise, you were not alone. Several viewers shared with FOX31 that ...

FARGO — Among the beautiful optical displays in the sky is the relatively rare sun pillar: a vertical shaft of light appearing to shoot straight up out of the rising or setting sun. A sun pillar's ...

Sun pillars are a dramatic optical illusion. Here's how they form and the best time to spot them. As a meteorologist, I had learned about sun pillars but I had never seen one until recently. I was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOPEKA — An early morning atmospheric ...

It may be possible to watch a thousand sunsets and not see one like Saturday evening’s in Washington, which set the western sky ablaze and included a fiery column of orange light that reached upward ...

It was a frigid morning in Garrett County, Md., when Josh Brenneman encountered an incredible scene on his drive to work. The rising sun was surrounded by a perfect semicircle of colored light, like a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Many Midstate residents witnessed an unusual and dazzling display during Saturday night’s sunset, and that spectacular event has a name: sun pillars. Sun pillars are beams of ...

Those vertical beams of light that folks may have seen in Thursday's sunset in southern Wisconsin are known as sun pillars. Sun pillars occur when sunlight reflects off ice crystals in the Earth's ...

TOPEKA — An early morning atmospheric phenomenon known as a “sun pillar” was visible in the eastern sky on Monday morning. If you happen to be up early enough these pillars of light make for a ...