Sometimes,observers see this as a comet's tail, which can be visible to the unaided eye stretching across the night sky.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

So many bright lights shooting into the sky from the gardens would keep Princess Lenore from seeing the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

At sunset,when the sun has moved across the sky, the canyon walls give up their fiery reds and golds.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Rockets explode to fill the dark, night sky with bright reds and blues, with yellows and greens and whites.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

In other cities and smaller towns, local people listen to band concerts and watch fireworks explode in a dark sky.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Now they are stars in the sky, so they meet each other in lunar months,seventh in July, each year once.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Its titan piers grip ocean floor, Its great steel arms link shore with shore, Its towers pierce the sky.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

Here is the song "I Was a Bird" in which she dreams about flying high in the sky.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Max Arthur Cohn's painting "Coal Tower" shows the dark form of a coal tower against a light sky.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.

VOA: special.2009.11.08