Those lights are actually bioluminescent shrimp, better known as sea fireflies, or, in Japan, as “umibotaru”. Visible every year from May until the end of October, they live in the sand around very shallow sea water and are often seen floating between the extremes of high and low tides. Here: Bioluminescent sea fireflies glittering like diamonds on the rocks and sand. Okayama, Japan. July 2016. (Photo by Trevor Williams/Jonathan Galione/Getty Images)

Londoners enjoying the magnificent sight of sun setting perfectly in the middle of London Eye as seen from Greenwich Park in London, England on the warmest day of the year on April 19, 2018. (Photo by London Viewpoints/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Cosplayers attend the MCM Comic Con London 2022 at the ExCel Centre in London in London, Britain on October 28, 2022. (Photo by Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters)

Mist and fog covers fields as the sun rises over the Somerset Levels on January 13, 2012 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A view shows a church in front of a high-rise apartment building in Saint Petersburg, Russia on October 30, 2019. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)

A view of the Sheikh Zayed highway in Dubai and some high rise buildings, November 8, 2007. (Photo by Steve Crisp/Reuters)

The moon rises behind the skyline and financial district in Toronto, November 25, 2015. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Reuters)

Icelandic horses play on a stud farm in Wehrheim Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on Thursday, May 21, 2020. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)