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NASA astronaut spots eerie red lights glowing in space from aboard ISS
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.
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What is Sprite, a rare red lighting captured by NASA
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 ...
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Elves and sprites: What is this rare atmospheric phenomenon?
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Halloween is here and scientists at the Nation Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are claiming that elves and sprites are real. Halloween’s the time for all ...
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A NASA spacecraft circling Jupiter has captured the planet's colorful electrical outbursts — 'sprites' and 'elves' — for the first time
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 ...
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Astronauts have captured a rare image of a giant red sprite from space
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 ...
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Hunting mystery giant lightning from space
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 ...