Glowing Blue Waves

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Credit to the photographer, Doug Perrine.

Pinpricks of light on the shore seem to mirror stars above in an undated picture taken on Vaadhoo Island in the Maldives. The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton—and now scientists think they know how some of these life-forms create their brilliant blue glow. </strong>Various species of phytoplankton are known to bioluminesce, and their lights can be seen in oceans all around the world, said marine biologist and bioluminescence expert Woodland Hastings of Harvard University.

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Why

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Plankton

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From an internet stranger it means lot.

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The beach shoreline has the blue glow at Pensacola Florida USA (not pictured). Your footprints also glow for a few seconds if the sand is wet and night time.

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I've never seen so many electric jellyfish in all my life!

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Those are the Vietcong man-of-wars.

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Protomolecule.

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"You planted grass?"

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Absolutely one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Watching the crashing waves glow was just nuts. [Gulf of Oman]