Crepuscular Rays

by Jimmy Akin on March 29, 2005

in Science

No, they’re not something that was used on Flash Gordon by Ming the Merciless or other evil overlords.

And they’re not a new kind of heart therapy, either.

They’re something that you can see in the atmosphere on almost day day, anywhere in the world.

They’re the "rays" of sunlight that we see streaming in various situations. In rare cases, they converge on the opposite side of the sky from the sun, a point known as (omniously) as "the Antisolar point" (wherein lives the evil Anti-Sun), in which case they are called "anticrepuscular rays."

Here’s some pix!

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Beautiful.
Whenever I see them, streaming down from the clouds, I think that God must be honoring someone.

When I first read that I switched the first e for an a, and I was quite confused... It made much more sense with a second look (I need coffee...)

When I first read that I switched the first e for an a, and I was quite confused... It made much more sense with a second look (I need coffee...)

Interesting to know the name. I always refer to them jokingly (given the conventions of landscape and allegorical paintings) as "God." "Hey, look, it's God!"

Cool. That's pretty sinister-looking.

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