A chance encounter with red sprite lightning won Angel An and Shuchang Dong the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory ...

Some of these storms' rarest skyward stunners fall into a category called "sprite lightning," also known as "sprite fireworks." From afar, this oddball lightning looks like a streak of red in a ...

Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena — Red lightning: The electrifying weather phenomenon explained — Sprites from space!

Teasing out the timing of over 90 red sprites and tying over 60 of them to specific strokes of parent lightning, the research reveals that one of South Asia’s largest shows of sprite fireworks arose ...

Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated ... sheds light on the driving force behind this grand "sprite fireworks"—lightning and thunderstorms.

and their similarities to lightning, a lack of observations means there is still much to learn. "What conditions in the upper atmosphere trigger sprite initiation?" NASA asks, as well as "how are ...