Video: Night-shining clouds in motion

NASA released this close-up, time-lapse movie in 2012. It’s really wonderful. Swedish photographer Peter Rosén captured these images of moving noctilucent clouds – sometimes called night-shining clouds – over Stockholm, Sweden on the evening of July 16, 2012. Rosén said:

What looked like a serene view from a distance behaves more like a stormy sea with wave after wave rolling in.

Want to know more about noctilucent clouds? Here’s a whole article about them.

Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Today, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of this website. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.