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Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Vapor cone plays ring around the Falcon 9 rocket
It's one of those "You don't see that every day" moments, captured by FLORIDA TODAY photographer Craig Bailey in this Photo of the Week. And there's a lesson to go along with it. The shot, from a rare daylight Starlink launch, shows a vapor cone forming around a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after it lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. How and why that vapor cone happens is likely a mystery to many. Not for Bailey, who's compiled a motherlode of launch shots and can explain what's behind the formation. "As the rocket approaches the speed of sound, when the atmospheric conditions are right, a vapor cone will appear around the rocket.," Bailey said. "This one is unusual because the low angle of the morning sun creates a shadow of the rocket on the vapor cone. But like the vapor cone, the shadow is only there for a brief moment and then is gone." This article originally appeared on Florida Today: Vaper cone of flame: What's behind that formation? | Photo of the Week
Daily Mirror
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
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Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Not just any old orb: Blood worm moon was an eye-catcher
It wasn't just any old orb: That recent splendid spectacle was a "blood worm moon," the colorful crimson result of the first total lunar eclipse since 2022. And in a Photo of the Week that launches off the page, FLORIDA TODAY senior photographer Malcolm Denemark landed an anything-but-everyday shot. "I knew there would be a bunch of amazing eclipse photos of the blood moon, but wanted to shoot something giving it context, a foreground," he said. "I had planned on shooting the eclipse framed by the illuminated church steeple on Club Zion in Cocoa Beach. The steeple is a landmark and used by boaters for a reference point." He loaded up the car and ... only to learn that the lights on the steeple were out that night. Denemark scrambled, he said, to find another lit-up spot for a shot. He didn't have to go far to find it. "The neon lights on the edge of the Hampton Inn roof gave it that foreground I was looking for, and added some color to the blood moon," he said. "It was serendipitous." See more blood worm photos at This article originally appeared on Florida Today: 'Blood worm moon': What a lunar delight | Photo of the Week
