Sunbeam
Rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from the point in the sky where the sun is located / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Sunbeam (disambiguation).
A sunbeam, in meteorological optics, is a beam of sunlight that appears to radiate from the position of the Sun. Shining through openings in clouds or between other objects such as mountains and buildings, these beams of particle-scattered sunlight are essentially parallel shafts separated by darker shadowed volumes. Their apparent convergence in the sky is a visual illusion from linear perspective. The same illusion causes the apparent convergence of parallel lines on a long straight road or hallway at a distant vanishing point.[1] The scattering particles that make sunlight visible may be air molecules or particulates.[2]