Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
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Ice Crystals Timelapse: Shawn Knol’s Melting Ice in Polarized Light
Ordinary ice is clear, yet in Shawn Knol's Ice Crystals Timelapse it glows in shifting bands of magenta, gold, green and blue as it me...
Snowflake Formation: How Snow Crystals Grow Their Six Branching Arms
Every snowflake begins as a speck of dust or pollen high in a cloud and grows, molecule by molecule, into a six-armed crystal. Chris Calver...