Transient Luminous Events

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  Watch: Spectacular Rare Red Sprites And Green Ghost Lights Captured In Tibet

  Stunning footage shows red sprites and rare green Ghost sprites above Tibet during thunderstorms.

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  Sunita Williams Reveals Two Strangest Things She Saw In Space

  Sunita Williams, retired astronaut, reveals surprising sights from space, including numerous satellites and rare lightning energy captured from the ISS.

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  Rare ‘Double’ Lightning Phenomena With Massive Red Rings Light Up the Alps

  For a brief moment last year, northern Italy's night sky offered a spectacle rarely seen in a lifetime. From his home in Possagno, nestled in the Alps, photographer Valter Binotto captured an image showing two of Earth's rarest lightning phenomena occurring at the same time. Elves and sprites are forms of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), which fla...

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  NASA Astronaut Captures Rare Red Sprite Over Storm from Space Station

  In a rare celestial event, NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers captured a vivid red sprite lightning phenomenon from the International Space Station as it flared above a thunderstorm across Mexico and the southern U.S. The image highlights the importance of orbital observation and NASA's citizen-science initiative, Spritacular, which collects ...

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  NASA Astronaut Captures Stunning 'Sprite' Light Show Above Earth's Atmosphere

  Sprites are a type of TLE, which create brilliant flashes of light high above powerful thunderstorms and are difficult to observe from the ground.

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  NASA Astronaut Captures Mysterious 'Red Sprites' Glowing In Earth's Atmosphere

  Red sprites are colourful bursts of energy that appear above storms as a result of lightning activity occurring in and below storms on Earth.

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  Astronaut Captures Image Of Mysterious "Red Sprite" High Above The Earth

  A red sprite represents an extraordinary meteorological phenomenon categorized as a Transient Luminous Event (TLE)