From: NASA APOD
Night
Glows
Explanation: What glows in the night? This night, several unusual glows
were evident -- some near, but some far. The foreground surf glimmers blue with
the light of bioluminescent plankton. Next out, Earth's atmosphere dims the horizon and provides
a few opaque clouds. Further out, the planet
Venus glows bright near the image center. If you slightly avert your
eyes, a diagonal beam of light will stand out crossing behind Venus. This band
is zodiacal
light, sunlight scattered by dust in our Solar System.
Much further away are numerous single bright stars, most closer than 100 light years
away. Furthest away, also rising diagonally and making a "V" with the
zodiacal
light, is the central band of our Milky
Way Galaxy. Most of the billions of Milky Way stars and dark clouds
are thousands of light years away. The featured image was taken
last November on the Iranian coast of Gulf
of Oman.
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I've seen this in Santa Monica, CA. Sometimes like this, and sometimes silvery instead of blue. One of the silvery times I saw horses in the wave foam. But that may have had something to do with the acid I'd taken...
On the other hand...
The concept of white horses emerging from the sea is
an ancient one. In fact, a “White Horse” is another name for a white cap. In
this case, the wave looks a lot like a horse jumping over the Cobb Wall
at Lyme Regis in Dorset. This was published in the Daily Mail as an
example of the flooding currently going on in the U.K. Just think, in the U.S.
it would be frozen!
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