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It's a visual too brilliant to ignore: as the sun pierces the horizon, either at sunrise or sunset, a small green light appears as the yellows and oranges blaze brightly. These green flashes have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of a sunset over the ocean with a green flash around the sun. As the sun dips below the horizon and the light starts ...

VENICE -- Christine Tsolakis shrugs. Sure, she's seen it. Once in a while, just as the setting sun disappears into the Gulf of Mexico, a green glow appears on the horizon. "I never saw it flash," says ...

The sun seen from the earth changes to red or orange depending on the time, but because the light is refracted to the atmosphere of the earth, the sun actually has various colors such as purple, blue ...

A man has shared the moment the sun appeared to flash green moments after it had set. Craig Hayslip, a research assistant at Oregon State University, caught the moment on camera in Bandon, Oregon, a ...

When you live beside the Pacific Ocean, it is almost instinct to stop whatever you’re doing near dusk and watch the sun slowly disappear. In Angeleno beachside communities like Santa Monica or Hermosa ...