Driving to work a couple of weeks ago, I passed these glories in the morning. I pulled over, parked the car and walked back to capture these images. The contrast between the white and the dark is so intense, in the image above, that the lack of detail leaves us with the impression that the center is a void or a light source. The image below shows what me miss in the image above.
Go ahead and click on this image to see it full screen.