A strange “red lightning ” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the ...

Red sprites belong to a category scientists call Transient Luminous Events (TLEs). Unlike normal lightning that strikes downward from clouds to ground, red sprites flash upward from the tops of ...

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

Massive Outbreak of Red Sprites in South Asia Observed from the ... "By analyzing the parent lightning discharges, we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high-peak current positive ...

A chance encounter with red sprite lightning won Angel An and Shuchang Dong the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory ...

Researchers are starting to reveal the science of red sprites. No, not the supernatural spirits that flit through fairytales, but the bursts of rare red lightning that flicker and flash through the ...

From there, they could link around 70 percent of the red sprites to their parent lightning events, then examine those discharges. “This event was truly remarkable,” said Gaopeng Lu in an ...

These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel upwards into the atmosphere, as opposed to normal lightning which travels downward to the surface of Earth. A rare red sprite ...

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Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena — Red lightning: The electrifying weather phenomenon explained — Sprites from space!