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.
The jaw-dropping image, taken by the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission Matthew Dominick on June 3, captured the quick-flash of a weather phenomena known as 'red sprite' lightning.
One of the frames in the timelapse had a red sprite. A rare event. My knowledge is pretty much just from Wikipedia but I want to know more. 50mm lens, f1.2, 1/5s, ISO 3200 pic.twitter.com ...
Below is a closer look at this oddity. Note the tendrils (purple) rising from the thunderstorm (bright white/blue) up toward the flash of the sprite (red), sort of like an electrical puppeteer and ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft just captured images of colorful bursts of lightning-like electricity high in Jupiter's atmosphere. These phenomena — jellyfish-shaped "sprites" and glowing disks called ...
OTD/LIS, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Lightning ... Now in need of names, the phenomena were christened sprites and elves because of their fleeting, mysterious nature. Yet despite their ...