These rays of light are known as crepuscular rays. They occur when objects, such as mountain peaks or clouds, partially shadow the incoming rays of the sun. These beams of light appear as though ...

watching the sunbeams shine through the slowly expanding clouds of suspended chalk dust. When I lived in Colorado, I saw crepuscular rays quite often, with the beams fanning away from the sun as ...

Crepuscular rays, in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds or between other objects ...