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Watch An Aeroplane Turn Fog Into Beautifully Spinning Cloud Spirals

We’ve seen planes create a fiery vortex in the sky before, but here’s a more peaceful version of it happening in real time. It’s majestically beautiful. The wingtip vortices formed when an Airbus A340 landed at Zurich Airport on a foggy night. Although it looks gorgeous, vortices can be pretty dangerous.

26 March 2013

Science

How Clouds Work Is The Most Complicated Problem In Climate Change

Predicting how Earth’s climate will change in the coming years is a deeply important task for science. It also seems fairly fundamental — they’re just clouds! But cloud dynamics are incredibly problematic, to the point of being unknowable in some instances.

20 December 2012

Science

So This Is How They Make Clouds

A cloud factory! If I ever have a kid, I would show him this photo when he asks about how clouds are made. I mean, it would be technically true, right? That’s evaporated water, after all.

17 June 2012

Science

Mysterious Electric Blue Clouds Appear Again Over The Poles

Every year around this time, mysterious electric blue clouds appear over the North and South pole. They are called noctilucent clouds and they can only be seen in deep twilight, when the Sun is below the horizon. According to NASA, “their origin is still largely a mystery”.

14 March 2012

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Artist Brings Real Clouds Into Rooms

A cloud suspends itself in the middle of a room. It’s not the work of witchcraft or Photoshop — it’s the work of a Dutch artist.

6 March 2012

Science

Tubular Roll Clouds Look Like A Toppled Tornado

This photo of a rolling arcus cloud was taken on a ship off the coast of Brazil. While it looks menacing enough to fuel another 2012 end-of-the-world conspiracy, it’s also downright breathtaking.

1 September 2011

Cameras

Crazy Photographer Captures Perfect Clouds 6km Up In The Sky

Rüdiger Nehmzow means “Man With Big Balls Made of Steel” in German. After watching this video of him taking photos of clouds from the open door of a plane, 6km up in the sky, it can’t mean anything else.

11 August 2011

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Abraham Lincoln In The Clouds Above New Brunswick, Canada

The guy recording this video of an impending storm says it best: Holy freak! Usually you KINDA see shapes in clouds, and you have to convince your friend that it totally looks like a bunny. Or an elephant. Or your grandma with her big glasses. But there’s no convincing necessary with this one. Abraham Lincoln is clearly about to throw down some thunderbolts in Canada!

13 July 2011

Science

What Is A Derecho? (Hint: Highly Destructive Force Of Nature)

You’re in the middle of a midwestern field right now. You feel a warm breeze gathering. Then wall of clouds starts heading in your direction. The wind gets stronger. Then a thunderstorm comes out of nowhere.

6 June 2011

Cameras

Watching The Clouds Go By In Spectacular Fashion

Australian cinematographer Murray Fredericks brings you this time lapse, showcasing the lives of thunderclouds as they pass majestically overhead. It’s like watching mountains grown out of wisps of white smoke.

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