Light pillars are optical phenomena where artificial lights appear to form vertical shafts above each source of light.
They're caused by millions of flakes of ice floating between the observer and the source presenting reflective horizontal surfaces.
They're like an upside-down version a light source reflecting vertically on the surface of water.
Pillars can form over natural light sources, such as the sun, where it's called a sun pillar.
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