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Light Pillars: Amazing Natural Phenomenon

Photo credit: National Geographic
From a distance, it looks like someone spared no expense to put on a spectacular, colorful light show that can be seen from miles away. But these strange columns of light that often confound onlookers are actually caused by the combined forces of light and falling ice crystals.

Photo credit: Walter Tape
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Fire Tornadoes Make Forest Fires Even More Deadly

Photo credit: Josh Lane
Forest fires are already frightening and deadly enough on their own, but when the conditions are right, something hellish happens: fire whirls. Fires sometimes spawn their own winds as the flames consume oxygen, creating tornadoes filed with fire and noxious gases.
From Discover Magazine:
All these wonders start with the plume that is formed [...]

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Rare ‘Smiling Rainbow’ Seen Over Sussex, England

Whoever heard of an upside-down rainbow? People in Sussex, England glimpsed an extremely rare phenomenon when “freak atmospheric conditions” created a ribbon of light in the sky shaped like a smile. But what they saw technically wasn’t even a rainbow at all.
From The Daily Mail:
While normal rainbows are formed when light penetrates raindrops and emerges [...]

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That’s not a UFO, it’s a Lenticular Cloud!

Image via UFOblog.com
What’s that round, dense-looking object hovering in the sky? It wouldn’t be too hard for UFO believers to assume, particularly at twilight when they’re backlit, that these strange formations are actually alien aircraft. But, what you’re looking at is a natural phenomenon. Lenticular clouds form at high altitudes, aligned to the wind [...]

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The Bizarre Natural Phenomenon of Ball Lightning – Photos and Video

Image via Xenophilia
No, that’s not a UFO you just saw travel across the horizon. That bizarre orb of glowing light is called ‘ball lightning’, and despite many reports of sightings over hundreds of years, scientists still know very little about this strange and unusual natural phenomenon.
They can’t tell us what causes it, or even exactly [...]

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