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Cirrus clouds providing slight cover from the sun over New Taipei City, Taiwan.
A view from between two layers of clouds, over Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Cirrostratus and contrails that Jarne says resembles "broken ice in the sky" over Gent, Belgium
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A partnership of contrails and cirrus over Reigate, England
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Altostratus stretching out over Rufford, West Lancashire, England
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A beautiful juxtaposition of the sky and nature, taken by Modestino in memory of his wife, Rossella, who recently passed away. Modestino describes this photograph as "evocative", which was taken at the cemetery in Mercogliano, Italy.
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A family of cumulus clouds below a sky of contrails, over Henley on Thames, England.
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Cirrus vertebratus over the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California, US.
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Feather floating over Ryazan, Russia
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Birds on a wire beneath some Cumulus fractus, spotted over LaVale, Maryland, US.
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Formation of cirrus fibratus, thanks in part, to the remnants of earlier contrails over Williston, Vermont, US.
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22-degree halo over Bigfork, Montana, US
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A face in the clouds – is it Salvador Dalí? – spotted over Greenfield, California.
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A lunar corona caused bye the moonlight shining through a high layer of ice crystals known as a Cirrostratus cloud, spotted over Pisa, Italy.
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The pastel colours of cloud iridescence formed by sunlight shining through the lenticularis form of Cirrocumulus clouds over Geneva, Illinois, US.
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An aircraft condensation trail with the 'zipper' appearance that can sometimes be produced by the effect of turbulence around the aircraft wings.
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