Blink and you will miss it. A rare red lightning phenomenon illuminated the dark sky above Tibet over the weekend, setting social media on fire. Known as a red sprite, it is an electrical discharge ...

Reference: “Massive Outbreak of Red Sprites in South Asia Observed from the Tibetan Plateau” by Hailiang Huang, Gaopeng Lu, Angel An, Di Xu, Zhengwei Cheng, Yongping Wang, Yazhou Chen and Xin Huang, ...

Red sprites have been captured on camera in Western Australia’s Kimberley. Rarely seen with the naked eye, red sprites are colourful bursts of energy in Earth’s upper atmosphere. This incredibly rare ...

The red sprites over Tibet were more than a rare sight. They connected science, photography, and cosmic forces. The Himalayas, known for their power and peace, ...

What they witnessed surpassed every expectation. More than 100 red sprites lit up the night sky. These were not isolated flickers. The sprites danced, some grew into secondary jets, and something ...

On May 19, 2022, a pair of photographers, Angel An and Shuchang Dong, captured footage of a series of over 100 red sprites above the Himalayas on the southern Tibetan Plateau in South Asia.

Reported for the first time in 1886, red sprites are a rare atmospheric phenomenon that occurs in the middle-upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm. Flashing through the sky, these red sprites, or red ...

Red sprites, vivid red electrical discharges above thunderstorms, were observed over the Himalayas on May 19, 2022. Over 100 sprites, including rare secondary jets and "ghost sprites," were captured.

Bright red flashes were captured by NASA astronaut, Matthew Dominick, from the International Space Station earlier in the year. This phenomenon is known as the red sprite and is extremely rare ...

Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 3, and the American Red Cross encourages everyone to test their smoke alarms as they turn their clocks back to make sure the devices are working. “Working smoke ...

Advancing Science From Above: NASA’s Study of Transient Luminous Events. The ISS provides a unique vantage point above weather systems that allows observations of cloud tops and associated atmospheric ...