ALMA antennae bathed in red light. in the background there is the southern Milky Way on the left and the Magellanic Clouds at the top. Credit: ESO/Christoph Malin / Christophmalin.com ...

Nature put on a psychedelic show in Michigan this week, filling the sky with tangerine-colored bubble-shaped clouds that look like the inside of a lava lamp.

Night sky photographer Ruslan Merzlyakov captured bright blue-white noctilucent clouds dancing over Nykøbing Mors in Denmark just before dawn on July 1.

In “Something About the Sky,” the National Book Award-winning marine biologist brings her signature sense of wonder to the science of clouds. By Maria Popova Maria Popova, the creator of ...