Tourists gathered on the beach to watch the bioluminescent waves shimmer under the stars.

The jellyfish drifted bioluminescently through the dark water, leaving faint trails of light.

The researchers studied bioluminescence in deep-sea organisms to understand how it evolved.

At night the tiny plankton bioluminesce, turning the waves into a field of stars.

On summer nights, coastal researchers documented several rare bioluminescences along the shoreline, each shimmering in a different hue.