An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous Event seen above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the Desert Southwest earlier in ...
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Four years ago, a green “ghost” appeared over a thunderstorm cloud in the Mediterranean Sea. To the delight of Spanish scientists, this ephemeral sighting finally offered a rare window into a ...
Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April 2025. Photograph by Paul Smith Our atmosphere is like one big electrical ...
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Earth's rarest lightning finally caught on camera
Transient Luminous Events are rare bursts of lightning that occur high above thunderstorms, sometimes reaching toward the edge of space. Unlike ordinary lightning, they flash upward into the upper ...
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