Lightning and Big Red FOR THIS PARTICULAR PERFORMANCE AT THE CELTIC Ray in Punta Gorda, the band’s front man is dressed like Batman’s nemesis Two-Face, which is eerily appropriate and not just because it’s only days before Halloween. Midway through the first set, he raises a glass of what looks like watered-down pineapple juice
It might sound like NASA is investigating another UFO sighting with its latest call for citizen scientists' help, but the mysterious bright flashes known as "sprites" are a weather-related phenomenon. Sprites are a form of Transient Luminous.
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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 varying colors that cannot be seen n the ground.
The National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) released a new image capturing an incredible glimpse of two lightning strikes playing out at the same moment.
Rare and exotic upside-down lightning might be quite mundane after all
In the time it has taken me to write this, lightning has struck the earth over 500 times. It is one of the most spectacular, mesmerizing, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. For all of its beauty and power, it still holds many mysteries.
As recently as the 1990s, we had only anecdotal evidence of the majority of lightning’s many incarnations. At that time, thanks to videotape evidence from NASA’s Space Shuttle missions, actual observations of sprites, jets, and later ELVES (Emissions of Light and Very Low-Frequency Perturbations From Electromagnetic Pulse Sources) would all be confirmed and studied.