Crepuscular rays
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Crepuscular rays, sometimes colloquially known as god rays, twilight rays, or Jacob's ladder, are visible shafts of sunlight that originate when the Sun appears to be just above or below a layer of cl
Sunlight shining through clouds, giving rise to crepuscular rays over Lake Hāwea, New Zealand
Sunset at Heron Island, Queensland, Australia (April 2023)
Crepuscular rays before sunset, Tikveš
Crepuscular rays through dark rain clouds over suburban New South Wales, Australia
Sunbeam
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A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the position of the Sun. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and build
Crepuscular rays
…thickness of the atmosphere - about 40 times more air than when the Sun is overhead at midday - resulting in a more pronounced warm colouration in sunbeams. Crepuscular rays are in fact almost parallel to one another; however they appear to radiate outwards, due to a perspective effect, similar to how…
Sunbeams in Nevada during a sunset
Daytime sunbeams as seen from the ISS, illustrating their parallel nature
Crepuscular rays as seen from Taipei, Taiwan (2018)
These anticrepuscular rays appear to converge at the antisolar point, as viewed from an aircraft above the clouded ocean.