Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as ...
Explore the wonders of red sprites captured over a thunderstorm in Tibet. Understand their significance in atmospheric ...
On May 19, 2022, two astrophotographers set up near the sacred lake of Pumoyongcuo on the southern Tibetan Plateau captured a ...
The photo, titled Cosmic Fireworks, won the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, ...
Learn more about a massive show of red sprites in South Asia — an outburst that included over 100 individual flashes of red ...
Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...
They knew it occurred in Earth's upper atmosphere, or mesosphere, unlike the low cloud-to-ground lightning most of us associate with everyday thunderstorms. (Sprites didn't, however, form as high ...