SpaceX launch lights up the sky with a glowing jellyfish

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket left a giant glowing jellyfish shape across the eastern United States on an early morning launch, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA jellyfish. In the sky. Over several states.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSunlight hit the rocket's exhaust, and the plume spread out into that shape. It was carrying equipment and experiments to the International Space Station.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorExperiments. Fine, that's the part I'd have led with.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSome of the research could advance treatments for blindness, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. So people who watched it got a free look at the cargo.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight, so who sends a jellyfish up to meet a space station? It was a delegation, Hank. The sea wants a word.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's light on smoke.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd if the ocean has sent someone up there, the sky has got to send someone back down, and there's nobody in charge of that.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNobody even has a form.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was exhaust and sunlight, Dale.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's exactly what a jellyfish would say.

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