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These subtle fanning beams of light resemble the rays that are sometimes visible as the Sun shines from behind clouds. But look a little closer, and you’ll see there are stars in this sky.

Jeff, the husband of Nikki Codd (Member 18,584), noticed the streaks and shadows formed by the light of the full Moon as it shone through Stratocumulus stratiformis clouds on...


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Sue Drinker (Member 58,087) grew up in New England, the north-eastern region of the US, where ‘dense forests filter the sky and weather’, and she says, ‘It's like living in a broom closet.’ But Sue spotted this mighty storm cloud in the west – in Carbondale, Colorado. Here, ‘the sky reigns, and the shifting moods of each day parade across the horizon in endless vistas ...


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Cloud enthusiast, Simon Rickman, sent us this Haiku and accompanying image.  Seeing everyday objects in clouds (and other objects) is called Pareidolia and he told us this picture is a good example of a head in the clouds.

Cloud Face

it is no wonder
they call me ‘the daydreamer’
my head’s in the clouds!

© Simo...


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Dae-Am Yi (Member 64,103) spotted this space cloud, nebula M42 in the constellation Orion, with his telescope in the Yi-SWAN Observatory, Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon-do, South Korea. M42 is the brightest part of the Orion constellation, located around 1,344 light-years from Earth. It is positioned somewhere near the three stars that make up Orion’s belt. Parts of M42 glow re...


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Thank you to H Brown, Member 7,173 who introduced us to an article in Quanta Magazine whic...


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