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Electric blue night-shining clouds

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Matt Robinson in Sunderland, U.K., saw this wonderful, electric-blue noctilucent clouds on July 7, 2014. They are sometimes called night-shining clouds.
Matt Robinson in Sunderland, U.K., saw a grand display of electric-blue noctilucent clouds on July 7, 2014. They are sometimes called night-shining clouds.

The secrets of night-shining clouds: Everything you need to know

Europe got a fabulous display of noctilucent clouds on July 3

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is featuring noctilucent clouds today, too

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