Clouds Comet and Crescent Moon
A magic moment. Colorful evening twilight, clouds, comet and crescent moon, captured by talented astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi. The scene captures naked-eye Comet PanSTARRS peeking into northern hemisphere skies on March 12. Image © Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
Asperatus Clouds over New Zealand
These clouds known as Undulatus asperatus clouds, they can be stunning in appearance, unusual in occurrence, are relatively unstudied, and have even been suggested as a new type of cloud. Witta Priester
Polar Mesospheric Clouds in South Pacific Ocean
Polar mesospheric clouds (noctilucent or “night shining” clouds) form between 76 to 85 kilometers (47 to 53 miles) above the Earth’s surface, near the boundary of the mesosphere and thermosphere, a region known as the mesopause. Image © Astronaut William L. Stefanov, Jacobs/ESCG at NASA-JSC.
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Forecast for Exotic Weather
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026, creating the most detailed “weather map” yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs. Artist’s conception: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mammatus Clouds over Regina, Canada
These Mammatus clouds were photographed over Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada during the past summer. Mammatus (“mammary cloud” or “breast cloud”), is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. Image credit: wikimedia
Milky Way Above a Sea of Clouds
Milky Way above a sea of clouds. Photographer Roberto Bertero climbed to the Italian Alps top, to capture these stunning images. Rocciamelone summit (3,538 m – 11,608 ft) Image credit: Roberto Bertero Used with permission.
Tropical Storm Isaac by Night
The image of Tropical Storm Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast of the United States, was acquired just after local midnight by the the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) “day-night band.” The clouds of Isaac were lit by moonlight. NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band data. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
A Hole in the Sky
An enormous oval hole, several hundred miles across, in the clouds above the southern Pacific Ocean, acquired by NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 5, approximately 500 miles (800 km) off the southwestern coast of Tasmania. Image credit: NASA/Aqua
Cloudburst in West Texas
The photo above shows a cloudburst I observed just before sunset in Jones County, Texas on September 17, 2011. Photographer: Steven L. Templeton; Steve’s Web site
Milky Way over Bryce Canyon
Those strange rock structures are towers and walls of sedimentary rock that are particularly plentiful in Bryce Canyon in Utah, USA. Image credit Ben Cooper
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