SpaceX Rocket Launch Creates Glowing Jellyfish Cloud in US Sky

A SpaceX rocket launch lit up the US sky with a spectacular space jellyfish cloud.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida illuminated the US sky with a glowing plume known as a space jellyfish effect. The unusual atmospheric display was visible across multiple regions in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Such luminous phenomena occur when exhaust gases from high-altitude rocket stages expand in sunlight.

• The locationThe rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• The phenomenonHigh-altitude exhaust expansion creates the characteristic glowing cloud pattern.