{"id":630689,"date":"2026-10-14T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630689\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:14:09","slug":"spacex-rocket-launch-causes-stunning-jellyfish-cloud-visible-off-us-east-coast-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630689\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket launch causes stunning \u2018jellyfish cloud\u2019 visible off US east coast | Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/spacex\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> rocket provided a stunning pre-dawn display over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> as a massive, luminescent \u201cjellyfish cloud\u201d spread for miles, caused by an expanding plume of fuel exhaust crystalizing in the sky and reflecting sunlight off the frozen particles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The phenomenon occurred shortly after Tuesday\u2019s 6.33am ET launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying cargo to the International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/space\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space<\/a> Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The timing of the blastoff, 48 minutes before sunrise at Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral space force station, provided a perfect example of the colorful effect only fully visible from Earth during dusk and dawn launches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The rocket\u2019s north-eastern trajectory over the Atlantic also allowed residents of eastern states from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-rocket-launch-creates-incredible-space-jellyfish-visible-throughout-us-east-coast-photos\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia to New York<\/a> to enjoy the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nasa posted photographs of the jellyfish cloud <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAKennedy\/status\/2110030827811737664\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow\">on X<\/a>, the social media platform owned by SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk. Among the hundreds of replies were images taken by sky watchers across multiple states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Those who missed Tuesday\u2019s dazzling celestial show have another opportunity to view one next Monday, 19 October, when another SpaceX Falcon 9 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacelaunchschedule.com\/launch\/falcon-9-block-5-bandwagon-5-dedicated-mid-inclina\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to lift off<\/a> from the same space force station pad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An hour-long launch window for the satellite-deployment mission opens at 6.30am ET, little more than a half hour before the 7.01am sunrise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX rocket provided a stunning pre-dawn display over Florida as a massive, luminescent \u201cjellyfish cloud\u201d spread for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-630689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}