An amazing display of pillars of light brightens the Canadian sky on January 6. This is a rare phenomenon that science can expound.
Timothy Joseph Elzinga posted on his YouTube channel a record of an amazing display of pillars of light in Canadian night sky on January 6, 2017. According to Mashable, at around 1:30 AM while most of the residents in Ontario, Canada, Elzinga was nursing his crying baby when he accidentally looked out the window. He saw pillars of light that appear to look like something from a Star Trek or Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie.
Elzinga resides in North Bay, Ontario, approximately 3.5-hour drive north of Toronto. On January 6, he said that the temperature on the morning had plunged to negative 18 degrees Celsius, or negative 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The pillars of light appeared for another 45 minutes after he first spotted them, Elzinga said.
Another person to spot the pillars of light over the Canadian sky was photographer Darlene Tanner of Blackfalds in Alberta. She said that she saw loads of amazing pillars of light while she was out in Blackfalds and succeeded to get some good photos. She added that the light pillars were much distinct. The temperature was -27 with wind chill on that time when she witnessed the pillars of light, reported Daily Mail.
The pillars of lights are actually a common atmospheric phenomenon called light pillars, according to Science Alert. Although they look a lot like aurora, they are not connected to the Northern Lights, which are the result of electrically charged particles from space exciting atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere, causing them to release spectacular light.
Instead, these pillars of light known as light pillars occur in subzero temperatures when flat, hexagonal ice crystals form lower in the atmosphere than they usually would. When this takes place, the crystals fundamentally form a combined, giant mirror, which can reflect a light source. These light sources could be city and car lights, which is what has happened in Canada.
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