Two types of lightning, a red sprite and a blue jet, in the skies above Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/A. Smith ...

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In the latest issue of Nature, the researchers report, "Until now, no experimental data related to sprites or blue jets have been reported which conclusively indicate that they establish a direct path ...

Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph. But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the same ...