Spectacular glow-in-the-dark Noctilucent clouds, 50 to 85 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, in frozen Antarctica.
This stunning photo showing curtain of cirrus clouds over Paris, France, was captured on June 19, 2016. Image credit Bertrand Kulik
The photo above showing a breathtaking Sun pillar was captured at sunset near Jenison, Michigan on April 10, 2012. Sun pillars result from the reflection
The photo above, snapped in Gulf Breeze, Florida on a chilly February afternoon, shows a colorful circumzenithal arc (CZA) and a much less frequently observed
Glaciation in clouds is the rapid growth of ice crystals, most often in cirrus clouds, usually leading to precipitation of the crystals. Those cirrus clouds
This lunar halo, photographed in Greenland, where the skies are wonderful. Lunar halos are rare and can be seen anywhere where there’s very thin ice
The photo above showing a colorful sundog heeling the horizon was taken in Trento, Italy on the afternoon of November 29, 2011. Photographer: Alessandro Zotta
The particularly colorful halo featured above was snapped at Yamdrok Tso Lake, Tibet on October 29, 2011. This is a 22-degree halo — the radius
The photo above showing a magnificent early autumn sunset was taken at Lake Loma, near Marysville, Washington on September 24, 2010. When I first noticed
Cloud iridescence is a fairly uncommon phenomenon and is usually observed in altocumulus, cirrocumulus clouds, most frequently seen near to the sun when small ice crystals in
The American flag flaps in the breeze against the backdrop of a halo around the sun at the US track and field championships in Eugene,
The photo above showing an eye-catching 22-degree halo and upper tangent arc was captured just before sunset over Dayton, Ohio on January 21, 2011.
