News

Noctilucent clouds, northern light and comet Neowise captured on July 14, 2020. (Image credit: @TheAuroraGuy) Comet Neowise streaking through the northern lights with noctilucent clouds below.
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 ...
Clear skies, golden sun sets and even a strawberry moon — summer is in full swing in the province. Enjoy these photos, then scroll to the bottom to see how you can be part of next week's gallery.
If you’re lucky enough to catch sight of these clouds, upload any pictures you capture of the rare phenomenon to the Space Cloud Watch website to help the research team at NASA.
Called noctilucent clouds, these weird clouds glow in the hour after sunset and are only visible for around a month either side of the solstice, according to Royal Observatory Greenwich.
These shimmering, silvery-blue wispy clouds tend to appear in the northwest as summer nights darken, glowing long after the sun has set (principally because the sun doesn’t get that far beneath the ...
Noctilucent clouds, Earth's highest clouds, shine blue in the twilight sky from late May to August in the northern hemisphere — and all you need are your naked eyes.
FORECAST: There will be a few wispy cirrus clouds that could pass in front of the moon from time-to-time, but you still should be able to view totality.
These are most common at sunset or rise when wispy clouds are present. But we can also get them from invisible ice crystals in the air reflecting manmade city lights vertically.
This eerie sheen is noctilucent clouds – extremely rare ice-crystal formations much higher in the atmosphere than any other cloud. Wispy noctilucent clouds in Earth's upper atmosphere are illuminated ...