🌈 Polar Stratospheric Clouds at Sunrise — A Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon At high altitudes above the Arctic regions, a thin layer of the stratosphere produced a display of vivid color as the rising sun illuminated polar stratospheric clouds—also known as nacreous clouds. These iridescent formations develop only under exceptionally cold conditions, around 15 miles above Earth’s surface. When sunlight strikes their tiny ice crystals at low angles, the light is diffracted into bright bands of pink,

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50K views · 3K reactions | ⚡ A Storm Lit From the Inside Right above the city, the clouds suddenly flashed with a deep pulse of light — not from rainfall, but from powerful lightning spreading through the storm’s core. For a moment, the entire sky glowed in shades of purple and white, as multiple lightning channels illuminated the cloud from within. It was a rare view of atmospheric electricity lighting up the storm’s structure . ⚡ | AstroNature | Facebook

Goodnight from Antarctica. There are some really cool clouds out tonight so I’ve got a timelapse set up. Can’t wait to see what it looks like overnight. Its 9:30pm and the sun is still up | Matty Jordan Antarctica

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