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Rare red lightning appears in the sky over Chile

Photo: ESO

Red lightning appears above thunderclouds at a height of at least 50 kilometers.

In the sky above Chile’s Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory (ESO) La Silla Observatory, scientists captured bright red streaks known as red sprites. This was reported by ScienceAlert.

Red sprites are known as large electrical discharges that occur above the thundercloud, usually caused by positive lightning discharges between the thundercloud and the ground. They appear at an altitude of 50-90 kilometers.

In 1989, researchers at the University of Minnesota photographed the sprites for the first time, and scientists have been studying them ever since. Over the past 30 years, they’ve been photographed thousands of times – including by astronauts on the International Space Station. But red sprites are becoming rare.

Earlier, it was reported that several devices detected lightning, which threw energy equal to 60 ordinary into space.

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