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

Photographers in Tibet captured 105 red sprites above a single ... of these sprites to extremely powerful lightning strikes, mainly positive-polarity bolts with peak currents exceeding +50 ...

In 2024, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick caught a glimpse at one of the most elusive atmospheric phenomena known as red sprites. These occur during particularly powerful thunderstorms and travel ...

This is the archetypal lightning bolt, one that arcs out of the sky and smites the ground with a great, often flickering flash of light. Lightning is the sudden release of built-up charge stored ...

The parent lightning discharges which drove the red sprites arose from a convective complex stretching from the Ganges Plain to the southern foothills of the Tibetan Plateau, researchers noted.

A strange “red lightning” phenomenon photographed from near a lake site in the southern Tibetan plateau in 2022 was driven by thunderstorms over the Himalayan region, scientists discover in a new ...