And the higher the ice crystals are in the sky, the higher the light pillars can reach upward. Light pillars can come from above, too. According to the National Weather Service, the light pillars ...

If you get up with the roosters, you may have recently seen a rare sight in the sky for the Central Virginia area: a sun pillar.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Did you spot beams of light streaming down from the sky early Tuesday morning? Don’t worry—what you saw ...

Sun pillars are basically huge beams of light that extends vertically from a light source, such as the sun in this case, right along the horizon. They form as a result of ice crystals slowly ...