An astronomer recently captured one of the most detailed-ever shots of a rare type of upward-shooting red lightning, known as a sprite, which briefly hovered in the air like a gigantic jellyfish ...

An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year ...

These are bright, colorful flashes of light faster than lightning and are sometimes referred to as "sprites." Pettit was able to view the sprites from directly above, looking down at what is known ...

"By analyzing the parent lightning discharges, we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high-peak current positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive mesoscale convective ...

In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Pettit shared footage of rare "sprite lightning" illuminating Earth's clouds from below. It's one of only a few times an astronaut has filmed or photographed ...

This phenomenon is known as the red sprite and is extremely rare. This occurrence will help scientists expand upon previous studies of this type of lightning on the orbiting complex. NASA ...