Photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga was woken up by his 2-year-old at 1:30 a.m. last Friday when he noticed what looked like colorful auroras dancing in the night sky. After shooting a beautiful set of photos of what he saw, he learned that it was actually a phenomenon called “light pillars.” More at PetaPixel.

Those are breathtaking. If I has seen them, I would have run inside for fear of attack from aliens.

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