A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has captured an image of a blue jet sprite in the Earth's atmosphere, a rare phenomenon only ...

On May 19, 2022, two astrophotographers set up near the sacred lake of Pumoyongcuo on the southern Tibetan Plateau captured a ...

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Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...

According to space.com, they can range in shape from a jellyfish to a carrot, and while ordinary lightning is relatively ...

Uncover the surprising connection between Earth storms and space radiation through the effects of lightning on high-energy ...

So far, [Liam] has been able to capture all kinds of electrical atmospheric phenomenon with it including lightning, red sprites, and elves. We don’t see too many projects involving lightning ...

but it was not initially shared by NASA or any other space organization. However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the ...

A newly unveiled photo captured by an astronaut on the International Space ... red lightning, which can be faintly seen in the new image. These additional discharges are very similar to "sprites ...