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Here's an article with some pictures in case anyone else was curious about red sprites like I was.

https://earthsky.org/earth/definition-what-are-lightning-spr...






The wikipedia page actually has some incredible images as well, including several from space that show their scale and position in the atmosphere (high up)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)


that shot with them aligned with Milky Way is spectacular

yeah, its pretty cool how most of these photos they were trying to take a picture of something else and the red sprites just happened to be in the right place because of a storm front moving in.



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