Tuesday evening, if you happened to be looking up, you may have seen some rainbow-esqe clouds high in the sky.

The multi-colored clouds are known as polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) and look similar to auroras blazing in the sky. However, these rainbow clouds aren't auroras as you might think.

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This type of cloud formation is rare and relatively new, Coulson said, and makes for a “bizarre, chaotic sky” that caught the eye of many in the capital region.