Tuesday evening, if you happened to be looking up, you may have seen some rainbow-esqe clouds high in the sky.

At low altitudes, fluffy cotton-like cumulous and dark-gray nimbostratus clouds garnish the sky, changing daily. Higher in the atmosphere, clouds become thinner and wispier, like cirrus clouds.

It's steam, apparently. Nueces ESD No. 1 chief Michael Clack and CCFD chief Brandon Wade helped 'science' the cloud after we wondered what that big plume in the sky was Wednesday.

Puzzle pieces "Clouds interact very strongly with climate," said Dr. Sandrine Bony, a climatologist and director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.

Known as mother-of-pearl clouds due to their iridescent rainbow sheen, polar stratospheric clouds are a rare atmospheric phenomenon that form under extremely cold temperatures—below minus 108 ...

Keep in mind, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are a type of formation, not type of clouds on their own. They tend to appear on these five cloud types: cirrus, altocumulus, cumulus, stratus, and stratocumulus.

Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors, visible in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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