宛如大自然雷射秀！金門馬祖驚現絕美「彩色光柱」

【看CP學英文】週日，有不少人分享在金門馬祖、福建地區拍攝到有如雷射光般的彩色光柱，柱體發光卻一動也不動，引發網友熱議、紛紛轉貼。

Many people shared photos of strange light pillars taken in Kinmen, Matsu and Fujian province on Sunday. The astonishing photos, which captured an atmospheric optical phenomenon went viral.

「攝影師無敵武士兔」8月9日在微博分享當日攝於福建平潭犯船礁的「大自然雷射秀」奇景，這名攝影師PO文寫道，「本來打算拍銀河，卻被雲遮住了，無法繼續，等到月亮升起，想拍幾張收工，不料發現了這些不明燈柱。」

A Chinese photographer shared on Weibo the amazing photos of “nature laser show” snapped in southeastern Pingtan County, Fujian province.

“I was going to take a picture of the Milky Way, but it was covered by clouds, so I couldn’t continue,” he wrote. “I waited for the moon to rise and wanted to take a few pictures to call it a day, but unexpectedly I found these unidentified light pillars in the sky.”

另一方面，有網友在馬祖也觀測到此一奇景，拍下這神奇的大氣現象。「大自然雷射秀」是如何產生的呢？

Many people in Matsu also observed this amazing phenomenon and captured the rarely seen atmospheric event. But, how does a “nature laser show” work?

臉書「天氣即時預報」於週日PO文解釋，此一現象稱為「光柱現象（light pillars)」，源自於天空中微小的冰晶體的反射光進入人眼所成，通常，是反射太陽西下後低於地平線的光，少數會反射「月光、人造光」，這是很罕見的大氣現象。

A post on Facebook fan page @weather.taiwan explained that the effect, called “light pillars,” comes from the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds.

Usually, the tiny ice crystals reflect the light that is lower than the horizon after the sun sets, with few of which reflecting “moonlight or human-made light.”

“This is a rarely seen atmospheric phenomenon,” the post read.

「而當時馬祖上空正好有高雲飄過，可能就是造成此現象的原因。」

“The fact that there were high clouds over Matsu at that time may have been the cause of this phenomenon.”

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