{"id":178013,"date":"2026-03-04T17:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:03:31","slug":"photos-of-jellyfish-effect-in-florida-after-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178013\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of &#8216;Jellyfish&#8217; effect in Florida after rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A \u201cjellyfish\u201d effect was seen around Tampa Bay after an early morning rocket launch on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/space\/2026\/03\/03\/spacex-starlink-10-40-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX launched nearly 30 Starlink satellites into orbit just before 6 a.m.<\/a> A Falcon 9 rocket sent up Starlink 10-40 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Tampa Bay area had clear skies right before 6 a.m. and was able to see the \u201cjellyfish\u201d effect from that side of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The jellyfish effect is when the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s (or any rocket\u2019s) exhaust plume grows and creates a jellyfish-like \u201ccloud\u201d from the exhaust that has a glowing appearance if the launch is near dawn and dusk.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/space\/2025\/10\/16\/understanding-a-rockets-jellyfish-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the &#8220;jellyfish&#8221; effect here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at viewer-submitted photos from around the community below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A \u201cjellyfish\u201d effect was seen around Tampa Bay after an early morning rocket launch on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26539,315,115,139,596,1769,275,135,137,136,2032],"class_list":["post-178013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-space","tag-brevard-county","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-pinellas-county","tag-space","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}