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 ...
Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...
These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...
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