“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 has shared an incredible image of a sprite, a rare weather phenomenon that's triggered high ...

The elusive red lightning called sprites last less than a second. They form above the tops of thunderclouds, when lightning bolts trigger a burst of red light in electrically charged particles ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

Shedding Light on Red Lightning Turning to satellite motion trajectories and star fields, the study authors set out to find the source of the red sprite flashes without scientific timestamps.

By matching the coordinates of 95 of the sprites with multiple orbital satellite trajectories and star chart positions, researchers managed to pinpoint each electrical event’s time to within a ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms ...

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

A storm photographer recently captures images of beautiful and rare red sprites in the night sky after a storm formed over Mexico.

Watch as This Rare Red Sprite Lightning Strikes Above the Himalayas Learn more about a massive show of red sprites in South Asia — an outburst that included over 100 individual flashes of red ...