The colour of the sea changes as the light advances up the sky.
With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.
Meanwhile, the blue gantries, now a symbol of people power, still merrily light up the Gauteng night sky.
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"I was smoking outside the door when I looked up at the sky and suddenly the sky lit up with a bright light and something that looked like the sun fell somewhere to the south of Yekaterinburg, " wrote Sergei Bobunets, quoted by AFP news agency.
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But it is at night that the mosque glows - its 82 domes light up like dozens of bright light bulbs in the dark sky.
Adonis Karageorgis, a 35-year-old dental student, said he saw the sky light up from his apartment.
Crowds abandon their browsing to step onto the sand and watch the sky light up in blistering reds and oranges.
At about 2145 BST, eyewitnesses reported seeing the sky light up with green flashes at the same time as the four explosions, which were thought to be stun grenades.
As the cometary "grit" from Swift-Tuttle strikes our atmosphere, it burns up, often creating streaks of light across the sky.
In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a nighttime sky filled with fireworks.
In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K. and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a July 4th nighttime sky.
And we, as consumers, face these sheer walls, smooth as glass, edifices of obsidian, crystal, and silver that reach up to the sky, blocking all but a tiny patch of light.
At the first ghostly light, which seemed to radiate not from the sky but from the snow, we got up, our limbs numb and our eyes glazed from sleeplessness, hunger, and darkness, and found our shoes so frozen that, when struck, they rang like bells.
And the sky is blue, it says, because the sun produces white light which is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.
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