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CBC
20-07-2025
- CBC
Shimmering clouds and sunsets: Enjoy these photos from around New Brunswick
Your Lens Send your best snaps and video from around the province to cbcnb@ Image | Your Lens 8 - July 20 Caption: Derek Grant captured these noctilucent clouds — which make an appearance from roughly the beginning of June to August in the northern sky — outside the gates of Fundy National Park. (Submitted by Derek Grant) Open Image in New Tab New Brunswickers took a variety of photos this week — from basking animals and blooming flowers to nighttime phenomena. If you snap any nice shots, be sure to send them to us at cbcnb@ for a chance to be featured in next week's edition, but don't forget to include your name and the location where the photo was taken. Image | Your Lens 14 - July 20 Caption: This little friend grabbed a treat at the Sunset U-Pick in Fredericton. (Submitted by Shellie Andrews) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 7 - July 20 Caption: A glowing sunset seen from the Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club in Saint John. (Submitted by Chris Breen) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 13 - July 20 Caption: A Canada lily spotted in the southeastern town of Salisbury. (Submitted by Rick Murray) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 15 - July 20 Caption: This porcupine sprawled out on Lesley Anne Cammack's front steps in St. Stephen, trying to cool down from the heat. (Submitted by Lesley Anne Cammack) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 1 - July 20 Caption: Jane LeBlanc of St. Martins took this photo of a black and white warbler. (Submitted by Jane LeBlanc) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 5 - July 20 Caption: Celia Jamieson spotted these red and yellow petunias in a window box in Woodstock. (Submitted by Celia Jamieson) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 11 - July 20 Caption: A friendly frog from Lake George. (Submitted by Beverly Somers) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 3 - July 20 Caption: A tree swallow taking home lunch in Sackville, around 50 kilometres south of Moncton. (Submitted by Chris Turner) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 2 - July 20 Caption: Horses grazing in a field in Harvey, about 50 kilometres southwest of Fredericton. (Submitted by Clayton Carr) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 9 - July 20 Caption: A ruby-throated hummingbird resting on a branch in Chamcook, just north of Saint Andrews. (Submitted by Elaine Goraj) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 4 - July 20 Caption: Some wildflowers blooming in Saint-Léonard-Parent, around 18 kilometres northwest of Grand Falls. (Submitted by Nicole Violette Laforge) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 6 - July 20 Caption: A dewy spider web on a foggy morning on the Gateway Wetland Trail in Oromocto. (Submitted by Edward Tataryn) Open Image in New Tab Image | Your Lens 12 - July 20 Caption: The last of the lady slippers spotted along the Fundy Parkway trails. (Submitted by Heather Olmstead) Open Image in New Tab Send us your photos or videos by email to cbcnb@ and put the words Your Lens in the subject line. Please tell us your name and where the photo or video was taken — we won't be able to use the submission otherwise. Keep in mind this feature is all about New Brunswick, so photos have to be of subjects in this province. Please provide a description that tells us what's happening in your submission and feel free to add any other information that would help us tell the audience about your photo or video. If we don't use your photo in the Your Lens closest to when you sent it, it could be used in a future edition as we are experiencing a high volume of submissions. We don't publish black-and-white photos or heavily edited photos, such as anything over-saturated or with filters. Watermarks will be cropped out.
BBC News
08-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
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Mercury Blue/BBC Weather Watchers Noctilucent clouds, shown in an image taken at Aberdeen Airport on Tuesday, appear as blue and silver streaks high up in the sky Rare clouds that form in summer high up in the Earth's atmosphere have been seen from parts of Scotland. BBC Weather Watchers who were up from between about 02:00 to 06:00 on Tuesday spotted the noctilucent clouds. They have been seen in the skies above Edinburgh, Aberdeen and other locations across the country. Their Latin name means "night shining" and the clouds usually appear as streaks of blue or silver. Shona McMillan/BBC weather Watchers BBC Weather Watcher Shona McMillan took her picture of the clouds from Edinburgh at about 06:30 The Met Office describes the clouds as "extremely rare" and they are formed by ice crystals at a height of at least 60,960m (200,000ft). They appear on clear summer nights in a layer of the atmosphere known as the mesosphere. Oz/BBC Weather Watchers A view of the striking clouds from Lanark in South Lanarkshire The Met Office says that, like many other types of clouds, noctilucent clouds need water vapour, dust and low temperatures to form. It says dust from small meteors could help the clouds form high in the mesosphere, but pollution from Earth could also be a contributing factor. Astronut/BBC Weather Watchers BBC Weather Watcher Astronut took this shot of the sky from Elgin in Moray Related internet links Met Office: Noctilucent clouds
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Night Sky: How noctilucent clouds are made and Wales' space progress
This week saw a wonderful display of noctilucent clouds across the region as last Sunday evening's skies took on a dramatic and eerie appearance. Nick Edwards managed to capture the event over Newport, as the sun's rays reaching out from far below the horizon lit up tiny frozen water droplets high up in the Earth's atmosphere, creating the shimmering effect of wispy white clouds tinged with blue. Taken from the Latin for 'night-shining', we can expect further activity throughout the summer. We have a full moon on Thursday, July 10. This particular full moon is often referred to as a 'Buck Moon' because of the emergence of antlers on a deer buck's forehead during this part of the season. In Celtic folklore, terms such as 'Mead' or 'Herb' Moon can be found, with the Anglo-Saxons referring to it as a 'Hay Moon.' Space news and the proposed cuts to NASA's budget by the Trump administration will more than likely impact Europe's ExoMars rover mission which is already behind schedule. With the aim of placing a rover to explore the surface of Mars, it would seem the European Space Agency, (ESA), may have to go it alone. Recently, the Snowdonia Space Centre opened its Space Test and Training Centre, (STTC), with a day of demonstrations including rocket launches and the upward despatching of a high-altitude balloon. In a move to stay competitive with the rest of the UK and indeed Europe, the day signified Wales' intent to be at the forefront of enabling those interested in having their high-tech payloads delivered into space via rockets. It's a bold and innovative concept which is slowly gathering momentum but for those who lived during a Wales that was sustained by the coal industry and in more recent times the steel industry, a stark reminder that the shift in economic focus now lies firmly with the likes of such technology as 'microgravity manufacturing.' Attended by Rebecca Evans, MS, Welsh Government cabinet secretary for economy, energy, and planning, the new centre has received £820,000 of funding from the UK Space Agency with Matt Archer, its launch director, also in attendance. All told, with other financial contributions, £1.3 million has been invested with a view to boost the local economy and employment opportunities. With six other such Spaceports at sites including Argyll in western Scotland and Newquay in Cornwall, there has to be an exercise in caution following the announcement last week that the SaxaVord Spaceport in Lamba Ness, Shetlands Islands, (which appears to be further down the operational line than others), has delayed its first satellite launch from 2025 to 2026. Finally this week, the Earth's rotation during July and August is set to speed up with Wednesday, July 9, expected to be 1.30 milliseconds shorter than the usual length of a day. The speeding up over the two months is down to several factors, including sea levels, bucking the trend that overall rotation of the Earth is slowly down. Send your astrophotography pictures to: thenightsky@
BBC News
01-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Noctilucent clouds: Summer skies bring striking cloud displays
Striking displays of clouds which are mostly only seen in the summer months have been appearing in the skies over Northern Ireland in recent clouds occur at extremely high levels in what is known as the mesosphere - a layer in the atmosphere above where our regular clouds and weather systems live, about 76-85km high - on the edge of clouds require very low temperatures in this part of the upper atmosphere, which only happen in the summer months, to allow water vapor to freeze into ice ice crystals then need to condense onto dust particles, which can originate from meteors or even volcanic eruptions. These ice crystals then need to condense onto dust particles, which can originate from meteors or even volcanic clouds, also known as night-shining clouds, become visible when the sunlight, even though the sun is below the horizon, illuminates them from below, creating a shimmering to the Met Office, the best time to see noctilucent clouds is on clear nights between late May and mid-August, about 90 to 120 minutes after sunset or before sunrise. Sightings are most common during June and July.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Northern lights and glowing noctilucent clouds collide in a rare night sky show over Alberta (photo)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Nature served up a stunning double feature in the skies over Alberta, Canada, on June 9. Aurora chaser and photographer Harlan Thomas (@TheAuroraGuy) was about 18.5 miles (30 kilometers) north of Calgary along a rural stretch he calls "The Twisted Pond Road" when the surprise display of both the northern lights and noctilucent clouds (NLCs) took to the sky. "It was quite the surprise to see the aurora, as there was really no data to justify the geomagnetic conditions," Thomas told in an email. "It was even more surprising to see the NLCs, as they had to overcome wildfire smoke from the Northwest and a waxing gibbous moon that was 84% full." NLCs are Earth's highest clouds, appearing as thin wispy blue or silver streaks about 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 km) above the planet's surface. They form in summer when water vapor drifts into the mesosphere and crystallizes around meteoric dust. Their delicate glow is often visible from high latitudes shortly after sunset or before sunrise. "There's nothing quite like seeing the aurora borealis and noctilucent clouds at the same time," Thomas told "It's the perfect combination." Thomas captured the scene using a Nikon D810 camera with a 50mm lens, shooting 1/30-second exposures at ISO 3200 with one-second intervals to create both a timelapse and a still image. Surprisingly, this wasn't the first time Thomas had witnessed such a spectacle. In 2020, he not only captured NLCs and aurora but also a comet! "On July 14, 2020, at the height of Covid, I captured the NLC's, Neowise [comet] and the aurora," Thomas told Talk about being in the right place at the right time! The NLC season typically lasts through August, so skywatchers in northern latitudes may yet catch their own glimpse of this dazzling duo. Want to brush up on your astrophotography skills? Our guide to astrophotography for beginners covers everything from equipment to shooting modes and more. Our best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography can also help you prepare to capture your next skywatching sight. Editor's Note: If you snap a stunning astrophoto and would like to share it with readers, send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@
