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A lenticular cloud covers the summit crater of Mayon Volcano, Philippines.. As air travels along the surface of the Earth, obstructions are often encountered, including natural features, such as mountains or hills, and artificial structures, such as buildings and other constructions, which disrupt the flow of air into "eddies", or areas of turbulence.
The peculiar cigar-shaped cloud is called an altocumulus standing lenticular cloud (ASLC) and is created when winds encounter a steep barrier such as a mountain range, Nasa explained in a statement.
Lenticular clouds typically occur when “stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains,” creating a UFO-looking shape, according to EarthSky.
An Air Force investigation later concluded that what Arnold really saw were disc-shaped wave clouds called lenticular clouds, which are not. Lenticular Clouds Shrouding the Peaks of Mount McKinley ...
NGC 6861 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Telescopium.It is the second-brightest object in the constellation. Unlike most lenticular galaxies, which tend to be mostly devoid of both gas and dust, NGC 6861 exhibits a thick obscuring ring of dust around the nucleus where star formation is occurring.
The cloud is a common feature in the skies near town of Middlemarch in the Strath-Taieri, a large glacial valley and river plateau in inland Otago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A Landsat 8 satellite image taken on 7 September 2024 showed the Taieri Pet as an elongated cloud lying parallel to the Rock and Pillar Range and to the north of Middlemarch.
If you’ve ever indulged in the habit of cloudspotting, you’ve probably seen all kinds of things in the sky, from animals and faces to UFOs and cartoon characters.
NGC 6850 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Telescopium, [4] discovered by John Herschel on 9 June 1836. [ 5 ] One supernova has been observed in NGC 6850: SN 1984K (type unknown, mag. 16) was discovered by Marina Wischnjewsky on 2 August 1984.