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.

Earth’s atmosphere sometimes produces colorful displays called halos, sun pillars, and sundogs when conditions are right. Halos are rings of light that appears around the sun or moon when ...

A skier in Austria captured a stunning sun pillar, a rare optical phenomenon where ice crystals reflect sunlight, creating a vertical column of light. This event, commonly seen during sunrise or ...