The best time to see noctilucent clouds is on clear nights between late May and mid-August, about 90 to 120 minutes after ...

How to shoot the night sky Most ... clouds are located in the third layer of Earth's atmosphere — the mesosphere — where they form between 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 km) above the surface ...

While astronomy and clouds don’t usually mix, a rare type of atmospheric phenomenon, called noctilucent or night-shining ...

Californians caught the sight of a lifetime when rare clouds recently illuminated the sky. Photographer Rain Hayes tweeted a photo on Dec. 16 of cobweb-looking wisps of clouds in the night sky in ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

it was able to reflect off those clouds. Hence the term "noctilucent," which means "night shining." Here are some more pictures from our Weather Watchers Facebook page. Be sure to check that out ...

These multicolored clouds were spotted shining in the night sky above the Arctic. The clouds, known as polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs), only form in the stratosphere — the second layer of ...

users spotted something interesting in the night sky early Tuesday ... the “night-shining” clouds are also known as polar mesospheric clouds and form about 50 miles above the Earth’s ...

This summer, you may be able to spot rare noctilucent clouds, or night-shining clouds ... The troposphere extends to about 6 miles above the surface. The stratosphere is the next layer of the ...