“They appear moments after a lightning strike—a sudden reddish flash that can take a range of shapes, often combining diffuse ...

Rare red sprite spotted by astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS Sprites flash high above storms and vanish in just ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

Sprites have probably been around as long as lightning itself, but scientists have focused attention on them only in the last few decades.

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According to the the European Southern Observatory, red sprites are a rare form of lightning very high in the Earth's atmosphere.

The National Severe Storms Laboratory describes red sprites as electric discharges that occur in the upper atmosphere. These bursts of energy can be 30 miles across, appearing for just a moment ...

Red sprites are colourful bursts of energy that appear above storms as a result of lightning activity occurring in and below storms on Earth. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has documented images ...

Planet Earth is full of some truly awe-inspiring spectacles, but few are as intriguing as sprites, which are officially known as a transient luminous event (TLE) and consist of large-scale ...

Rae, a cameraman with a passion for photography, was running an astrophotography workshop at Te Arai beachnorth of Auckland last night when he noticed lightning in the distance and decided to set ...

Red lightning, also known as a "sprite", is an intriguing weather phenomenon associated with certain very intense thunderstorms. While an ordinary lightning flash extends downward from the clouds ...

Red Sprites • Experimental physicist John Winckler accidentally discovered sprites, while helping to test a new low-light video camera in 1989.