Beautiful nacreous clouds appear over England

Yesterday rainbow clouds were spotted over Northumberland, England. Scientifically known as polar stratospheric clouds, the colourful cloud formation appeared a bit more southern than usual.
This kind of a phenomenon is also known as nacreous clouds.

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What is really cool is that this type of clouds will linger on for this week as the UK is having some really cold weather.

10 HD wallpapers of Socotra Island, alien world here on Earth

Socotra Island is a small island of the coast of Yemen, mostly an arid desert the island provides an amazing backdrop as if you are on an alien planet, the dragon’s blood and bottle trees making most of the landscape with their weird shape unlike any other on Earth.
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Take a look at 50 high resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope.