Blue spirals were found in the European night sky, which attracted stargazers – Country
People across Europe witnessed a mysterious blue spiral in the night sky this week, and scientists say they think they know what causes the dazzling form.
From the UK, Norway, Denmark, France, etc., a few minutes ago on Monday night, people from the UK, Norway, Denmark, France, etc. could see a cloud-like spiral.
The Metropolitan Office is the UK's national weather and climate service, explaining in an article on X that the dazzling show could have been caused by Elon Musk's frozen exhaust SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket, a reusable two-stage rocket, designed by SpaceX to transport personnel and payloads.
“Tonight, we received a lot of reports about the illuminated vortex in the sky,” the Metropolitan Office wrote on Monday. “The rocket's frozen exhaust plume appears to spin in the atmosphere and reflect sunlight, thus making it appear spiral in the sky.”
The SpaceX Rockets launched Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
“After about 8 minutes the first phase of Falcon 9 will return to Landing Area 1 (LZ-1) of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, to announce its arrival, the Sonic Boom-exclusive, reusable vehicle that comes back from space,” SpaceX shared in a post on X.
This is not the first time the SpaceX Rockets illuminate the sky.
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Earlier this month, SpaceX's eighth test flight of the Starship rocket ended in a late explosion, a large pile of burning shrapnel could be seen in the sky that destroyed air traffic.
The Starship rose on March 6 at 6:30 pm ET, with no crew members from the SpaceX facility in Texas.
Before the Rockets encountered trouble, they were nearly 150 kilometers above sea level. SpaceX confirmed that the ground crew lost communication with the ship within about nine and a half minutes after the promotion.
While the exact location of the rocket landed remains unclear, it was launched in designated corridors to ensure public safety on the ground, at sea and in the air, claiming that any surviving debris will fall “in the pre-planned debris response area” and will not cause harm to phobia and harm to marine life or humans.
The explosion marked the second failed launch of Musk Space Technology this year, after the same ship failed on January 16 due to an accidental fire of about eight minutes.
Musk said the Starship broke, calling it a “fast external disassembly.” The rocket appears to be lifted from SpaceX's launch pad, located at the constellation facility near Brownsville, Texas, but eight minutes into the mission, ground control announced that it had lost all communication with the ship.
The Turks and flights near Caicos were found to be diverted to avoid debris in the explosion and footage of debris in the sky in the area was shared.
Musk shared the video of the fragment dropping, writing: “Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!”
The spacecraft was supposed to soar from Texas's Gulf of Mexico, similar to previous tests. SpaceX packs new and upgraded models with 10 virtual satellites to practice releasing them.
There were no astronauts on the test flight mission, and the last data received from the spacecraft showed that it was 146 kilometers above sea level and had a speed of 13,245 km/h.
This is the seventh test of the world's largest and most powerful Rocket. The mission marks the second time SpaceX is able to use the launch tower to return and grab the stage booster.
In April 2023, a green band dancing in the sky of Alaska resembles a few minutes to the Milky Way.
The reason is that the SpaceX rocket launched from California about three hours ago released excess fuel.
Sometimes rocket fuel needs to be abandoned, said Don Hampton, an associate professor of research at the Institute of Geophysics at Fairbanks University in Alaska.
“When they do this at high altitudes, the fuel turns into ice,” he said. “And if it happens to be in the sun, when you’re in the darkness on the ground, you think of it as a kind of big cloud, sometimes short.”
The rocket took off from the Van Denberg Space Force Base in California, with about 25 satellites as payloads.
– Documents from Rachel Goodman and the Associated Press from Global News
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