Tag: Clouds

Cloud Watching

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds “How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes…


Orion Nebula

The Orion Nebula (cloud) lies about 1,350 light-years from earth in the sword of the hunter’s figure in the constellation Orion. It contains hundreds of very hot young stars. Radiation from these stars excite the gases in the nebula and cause it to glow.  I imagine that the stardust collecting in the stellar clouds’ gravity…


What makes clouds fluffy?

A cloud becomes a fluffy cloud instead of a wispy, thin, or curly type of cloud when the water droplets that are joining together are in patches of moist air with breezes moving upwards. This makes them grow tall and puff up!