Red Sprites News Today

Photographer, Greg McCown, took a group on a storm photo tour and captured extremely rare atmospheric phenomena called red sprites.

If you blink you'll miss them, but red sprites recently exploded so big over an Iowa thunderstorm that they were seen by a photographer in Missouri who captured video of the phenomenon.

Sprite or red sprites are a rare type of lightning that occur way above the atmosphere. Hurricane Nicole generated a rare sprite lightning before hitting Florida earlier this week, according to reports.

The picture was taken from the ISS as it passed over Southeast Asia, shows one blue light over the Gulf of Thailand, and the other near the South China Sea.

According to the the European Southern Observatory, red sprites are a rare form of lightning very high in the Earths atmosphere.

The elusive red streaks dimly lit the night sky, making it look like a painting. The new image was captured in the night sky over Chile.

"During the day, sunlight knocks electrons away from nitrogen and oxygen in Earths atmosphere and, at night, these electrons recombine with the atoms and molecules, causing them to shine," the

The European South Observatorys La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert has spotted a rare phenomenon known as red sprites alongside airglow.

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Close Lightning strikes that are commonly seen on the ground are just one of many storm phenomena. Some of them happen in places that humans do not usually see, like the clouds above. Lightning is a beautiful yet dangerous natural phenomenon that produces incredible lights. As long as the person is not near the vicinity seeing a lightning strike can be a truly spectacular experience. But lightning also produces incredible sights in the space above the clouds that extend into the atmosphere in v...