SpaceX rocket launch causes beautiful ‘jellyfish cloud’ seen off US east coast | Florida

A SpaceX rocket supplied a surprising pre-dawn show over Florida as an enormous, luminescent “jellyfish cloud” unfold for miles, attributable to an increasing plume of gasoline exhaust crystalizing within the sky and reflecting daylight off the frozen particles.

The phenomenon occurred shortly after Tuesday’s 6.33am ET launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying cargo to the International Space Station.

The timing of the blastoff, 48 minutes earlier than dawn at Florida’s Cape Canaveral house power station, supplied an ideal instance of the colourful impact solely totally seen from Earth throughout nightfall and daybreak launches.

The rocket’s north-eastern trajectory over the Atlantic additionally allowed residents of jap states from Georgia to New York to benefit from the spectacle.

Nasa posted pictures of the jellyfish cloud on X, the social media platform owned by SpaceX chief govt Elon Musk. Among the tons of of replies have been pictures taken by sky watchers throughout a number of states.

Those who missed Tuesday’s dazzling celestial present have one other alternative to view one subsequent Monday, 19 October, when one other SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from the identical house power station pad.

An hour-long launch window for the satellite-deployment mission opens at 6.30am ET, little greater than a half hour earlier than the 7.01am dawn.