CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – If the weather and a rocket cooperate, Central Florida can sometimes be treated to a fun atmospheric phenomenon.
A “space jellyfish” is an effect caused when light reflects off the rocket’s exhaust plume in the atmosphere amid the evening hours after sunset.
[Check out video of ‘space jellyfish’ below]
From the ground, it looks like a bulb-like effect in the sky, kind of like a jellyfish.
Whether we get to see the space jellyfish depends on the weather.
So train your cameras to the sky during a launch, and if you see the jellyfish, don’t forget to send us a photo, using the PinIt! function on the News 6 app, or on the PinIt! page on ClickOrlando.com.