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A ‘space jellyfish’ was seen in the sky on Wednesday, March 4, in Florida<\/p>\n
The mesmerizing display was created thanks to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early that morning<\/p>\n
Some Floridians said they were shocked by the moment and didn’t know what was happening<\/p>\n
What a sight!<\/p>\n
On the morning of Wednesday, March 4, some Florida residents woke up to see an unusual display in the sky: a cloud above their head that looked like a jellyfish.<\/p>\n
How did it get there? Well, shortly before 6 a.m. local time, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which was carrying a batch of Starlink internet satellites<\/a>, and the contrail it left behind looked like glowing “jellyfish clouds” in the sky.<\/p>\n According to the Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>, the sight was visible in the early morning sky across the state and even into parts of southern Georgia.<\/p>\n SpaceX shared pictures of the moment on social media, which attracted a lot of attention online.<\/p>\n “So mesmerizing Florida mornings just hit different,” one person said<\/a> of the visuals, while another added, “these photos look straight out of a movie<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Meanwhile a third wrote<\/a>, “That is some beautiful art being created in the skies.”<\/p>\n Local ABC station WTXL<\/a> spoke with some residents in Tallahassee, who couldn’t believe what they were seeing.<\/p>\n “Is that real?” said Nyagua Tut. “It looks, I don’t want to say an asteroid, but something is moving for sure, and that’s just a trail behind it.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Although “jellyfish clouds” or “space jellyfish” aren’t official terms, the atmospheric phenomenon, which occurs as light hits the contrail in a relatively dark sky, does have a striking resemblance to the invertebrates, hence the widely-used nicknames, according to The Weather Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n A similar occurrence happened in May 2022<\/a> when SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:40 in the morning. Photographer Kyle Morgan of K.Morgan Artistry<\/a> snapped a beautiful picture of the moment.<\/p>\n In an interview with PEOPLE, Morgan said he took the photo at the “last minute” from his “favorite spot on Jekyll Island” and has been pleased with the public’s reaction to it.<\/p>\n “I instantly knew it was going to be a good photo but had no idea it would get the attention it has,” he explained.<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n