Maelstrom In Hawaii

A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft. The power of tidal whirlpools tends to be exaggerated by laymen. There are virtually no stories of large ships ever being sucked into a maelstrom, although smaller craft are in danger and tsunami generated maelstroms may even threaten larger crafts.

Maelstrom In Hawaii

Solar Flare

A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy (about a sixth of the total energy output of the Sun each second). The flare ejects clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona into space.

Solar Flare

Lunar Eclipse In Park City, Utah

A total lunar eclipse took place on December 10, 2011. It was the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the first having occurred on June 15. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned just right in its orbit to pass through Earth's shadow

Lunar Eclipse In Park City, Utah

White Rainbow

The rare phenomena, named a fog bow, was spotted by Sam Dobson as their ice breaking ship cruised through the chilly waters of the North Pole.

Says the 51-year-old amateur photographer from Russia, 'It was around midnight, but because of the time of year it was still fairly light. 'At first it just looked like a cloud, but as we got closer it was a solid rainbow, but white.'

A fog bow is a similar phenomenon to a rainbow, but it appears as an arch in fog rather than rain. And because of the very small size of water droplets that cause fog, smaller than 0.05 millimetres, it appears as a white arc, rather than a multi-coloured one.

White Rainbow