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Jellyfish cloud from Florida launch lit up the pre-dawn sky

The glowing plume appeared shortly after Tuesday's six thirty-three launch, when frozen fuel exhaust caught the sunlight; it is only ice, and it is gone.

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Photo: Scott Andrews, Canon · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Guardian says the jellyfish cloud over the East Coast came from a Falcon 9 launch shortly after six thirty-three Eastern Tuesday morning, before sunrise on the ground.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe rocket was high enough to catch sunlight while Florida was still dark, so the frozen exhaust glowed for miles, and people are posting it nonstop.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFrozen exhaust. That is the whole mystery.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA glowing creature floats over Florida at dawn, and everyone's first move is to film it, not to leave.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLeave? It's the best free light show Florida has had all week.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's ice, and it's going to melt by lunch, so nobody needs to evacuate the beach.

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