Mysterious ‘Red Sprite’ Appears in NASA Astronaut Photo From the Space Station. What Is This Strange Electrical Flare? Red sprites are among a class of enigmatic weather phenomena that appear ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's associated with lightning.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare and stunning image of a ‘sprite’ — a Transient Luminous Event (TLE)—from space.

A sprite sheet is a large image containing many smaller images arranged in a grid. The main idea is to speed up load time and compute resources as computers are well optimized for working with images.

Lightning usually roars; on this particular night, it whispered. Far above a thunderhead straddling northern India and Tibet, the sky lit up with silent crimson flashes called “red sprites.” They ...

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Above the strike is a reddish phenomenon known as a sprite, which sometimes occurs in the atmosphere between 50 and 90 km above a lightning strike near the surface of the planet.

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Sprites are created when electrical discharges created by lightning shoot upward, creating bursts of plasma in the ionosphere, found around 50 miles (80 km) above Earth's surface.

Two astrophotographers captured breathtaking video of over 105 red sprites over Tibet during a massive thunderstorm.

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