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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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Strange red lights in N.J. sky? Not drones, but rare ‘red sprites,’ expert says.
A rare type of lightning known as “red sprites” was seen flashing in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean near South Jersey earlier this month and captured on video by a space expert from the area.
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Astronaut's photo shows a rare 'sprite' in Earth's atmosphere caused by lightning shooting up toward space
Because their pictures are so rare, very little is known about sprites, the European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen said in 2016. We know, however, that they are made up of lightning that ...
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A stunning photo shows both red-sprite and blue-jet lightning in the skies above Hawaii
"We've seen a few other instances of similar phenomena, but that was by the best example of a lightning sprite in the upper atmosphere," he told Insider. Regular white lightning is different from ...