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Early risers and morning commuters across Lakeland and Central Florida were treated to a breathtaking celestial spectacle early Tuesday morning when a predawn SpaceX launch painted a glowing “space jellyfish” across the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Details Behind the Launch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • The Mission:<\/strong> The display followed the successful liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the CRS-35 resupply mission<\/strong> to the International Space Station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Time & Location:<\/strong> The rocket blasted off at 6:33 a.m.<\/strong> from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The “Jellyfish” Effect:<\/strong> This striking visual phenomenon occurs uniquely during predawn or twilight launches. While observers on the ground are still shrouded in the darkness of pre-dawn, a rocket climbing high into the atmosphere enters direct sunlight. When the sun’s rays hit the expanding plume of high-altitude exhaust gases and rocket vapor, it illuminates the trail into a vibrant, glowing, multi-colored cloud shaped remarkably like a jellyfish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Early risers and morning commuters across Lakeland and Central Florida were treated to a breathtaking celestial spectacle early Tuesday morning when a predawn SpaceX launch painted a glowing “space jellyfish”… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9pbWFnZXMtMy0yLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJTdHVubmluZyAmIzgyMTY7U3BhY2UgSmVsbHlmaXNoJiM4MjE3OyBMaWdodHMgVXAgRmxvcmlkYSBTa3kgQWZ0ZXIgRWFybHkgTW9ybmluZyBTcGFjZVggTGF1bmNoIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.McuZtsbdYOK9L_Oo-uTrZ3ivJJJWd_ivHd9sHKT6nkkMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9pbWFnZXMtMy0yLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJTdHVubmluZyAnU3BhY2UgSmVsbHlmaXNoJyBMaWdodHMgVXAgRmxvcmlkYSBTa3kgQWZ0ZXIgRWFybHkgTW9ybmluZyBTcGFjZVggTGF1bmNoIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.-azh_DipXFcKcQ4l_9AcmNK9fy1pziDwDASeIrUhKAMMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[18137,18138,18135,53,18139,18136,54],"class_list":["post-84891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-crs-35","tag-falcon-9","tag-international-space-station","tag-rocket-launch","tag-space-jellyfish","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84893,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84891\/revisions\/84893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}