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  2. Sprite (lightning) - Wikipedia

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    A sprite at the horizon, with lightning below in the troposphere and above the green line of airglow at the upper mesopause and border to space (the bright light above is the Moon). First color image of a sprite, taken from an aircraft

  3. 'Beautiful' Sprite Lightning Flashes Over Oklahoma and Texas

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    Luminous sprite lightning danced across Texas and Oklahoma skies during a storm on June 19.Paul Michael Smith shared video to YouTube that shows a thunderstorm and red sprite lightning, or sprites ...

  4. Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

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    The lightning that triggered it was in Polverigi, AN, Italy, at a distance of 285 km. Its strength, estimated at about 410 kA (kilo-Ampère), which is an order of magnitude stronger than a normal lightning (10 to 30 kilo-Ampère), generated an intense electromagnetic pulse. The red ring marks where the pulse hit the Earth's ionosphere.

  5. Earthquake light - Wikipedia

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    An earthquake light also known as earthquake lightning or earthquake flash is a luminous optical phenomenon that appears in the sky at or near areas of tectonic stress, seismic activity, or volcanic eruptions. [1]

  6. Electric ‘jellyfish' spotted flashing above storm in night sky

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    Lightning bolts can be extremely dangerous yet hauntingly beautiful, and over the weekend, one photographer managed to capture video of a type of lightning that very few have ever seen. Around ...

  7. Thomas Ashcraft - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Ashcraft (born 1951, Springfield, Illinois) [1] is an American astronomer, naturalist, scientific instrument-maker, and artist. [2] He is known for his observations of transient luminous events (lightning sprites), [3] meteoric fireballs, [4] solar radio and optical phenomena, [5] and Jupiter radio emissions.

  8. Terrestrial gamma-ray flash - Wikipedia

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    Scientists from Duke University have also been studying the link between certain lightning events and the mysterious gamma ray emissions that emanate from the Earth's own atmosphere, in light of newer observations of TGFs made by RHESSI. Their study suggests that this gamma radiation fountains upward from starting points at surprisingly low ...

  9. Lightning Strikes (Aerosmith song) - Wikipedia

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    "Lightning Strikes" is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith from their 1982 album Rock in a Hard Place. It is notable as Aerosmith's only charting song from the lineup without guitarist Joe Perry , who was replaced by Jimmy Crespo after he left the band in 1979 .