ORLANDO, Fla. – Viewers across Florida’s east coast have been asking about the strange glowing clouds that appeared in the sky just before sunrise Thursday morning.

While it wasn’t any alien activity, it does have to do with space! Rocket Clouds Daytona Beach

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying another batch of Starlink internet satellites, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:57 a.m. Thursday. Rocket Clouds Seminole County

As the rocket climbed into the upper atmosphere, it released exhaust made mostly of water vapor and carbon dioxide. In the cold, thin air high above Earth, that hot exhaust rapidly cooled and condensed into tiny ice crystals and vapor clouds.

Because the launch took place just before sunrise, sunlight was already reaching those high-altitude c

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