NASA’s SpaceX launch lights up the sky with a giant glowing jellyfish - Science Daily

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transformed the early morning sky into a spectacular display of light on October 13, 2026. As the rocket climbed above Earth carrying a Dragon spacecraft, sunlight illuminated its expanding exhaust plumes, creating an enormous glowing shape that resembled a jellyfish. This striking phenomenon, known as a "jellyfish," occurs when a rocket launches near sunrise or sunset. Sunlight reaches the exhaust high in the atmosphere, making the spreading plume shine brightly against the darker sky below.

NASA released photos of a glowing, jellyfish-shaped formation created when exhaust plumes from the SpaceX CRS-35 cargo mission caught the sun's rays.

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