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A Florida-bound flight crew witnessed strange orbs glowing and darting around in the night sky while flying over the Bahamas at high altitude, according to a report. A flight attendant with Surjet ...
The Manhattan Seaport’s stunning latest art installation, MoonGARDEN, involves 14 glowing orbs of various sizes that change color throughout the night.
Cherenkov radiation glowing in the core of the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. Cherenkov radiation (/ tʃ ə ˈ r ɛ ŋ k ɒ f / [1]) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium (such as distilled water) at a speed greater than the phase velocity (speed of propagation of a wavefront in a medium) of ...
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire) [1] is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.
The orb appears white in the distance and takes on a blue tint as it gets closer to the camera. The potential object outpaces every boat on the Hudson and quickly arcs its way past the news chopper.
First, it will be useful to introduce some mineralogical terminology for gemstones that can glow when exposed to light, friction, or heat. Note that the following discussion will omit modern techniques such as X-rays and ultraviolet light that are too recent to have influenced folklore about luminous gems.
Milky sea effect off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean. Milky seas (Somali: Kaluunka iftiima; English: Milky seas), sometimes confused with mareel, are a luminous phenomenon in the ocean in which large areas of seawater (up to 100,000 km 2 or 39,000 sq mi [1]) appear to glow diffusely and continuously (in varying shades of blue).
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