Your position relative to the cloud and where the sun is shining will also affect how dark a storm cloud appears. If you are viewing the cloud from the opposite side of the sun, it appears much ...

Night-shining clouds are most common in the summer months and are best viewed from high-latitude regions where it's still dark at night. (The midnight sun blots out the clouds.) [In Images ...

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Photographers hoping to capture stunning "night-shining" clouds have been left frustrated this year. The fast-approaching solar maximum may be to blame.

A Met Office video explains seven rare cloud types - including noctilucent clouds as they’re sighted in the UK.

Noctilucent, or night-shining clouds, are rare clouds that can be spotted shortly after sunset in higher latitudes. Summer is the best time to look for them.

It looked like the clouds were written in cursive this morning just before sunrise, all thanks to another launch from the Space Coast.

Other mysteries of these night-shining clouds have scientists scratching their heads, including why noctilucent clouds are brightening and spreading.

Noctilucent clouds are collections of ice crystals that form blue or silver clouds just after sunset, and before it gets fully dark.

This is how to see noctilucent clouds, ethereal displays of night-shining clouds that come out on long, warm summer nights.

A fantastic photograph shows noctilucent clouds over Edinburgh.Sachiko Hamada caught the stunning space phenomenon at 2:10am ...

Photographers hoping to capture stunning "night-shining" clouds have been left frustrated this year. The fast-approaching solar maximum may be to blame.