These eye-catching phenomena have long puzzled skygazers and scientists—until two amateur astronomers made a very serendipitous discovery.

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Red sprites seen above the Himalayas reveal powerful storms, rare upper-atmosphere events, and atmospheric mysteries ...

Rare red flashes, known as 'red sprites', illuminated the Himalayan sky in May 2022, astonishing both astrophotographers and ...

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NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has captured an image of a blue jet sprite in the Earth's atmosphere, a rare phenomenon only confirmed in recent years. Astronaut and keen astrophotographer Don Pettit ...

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