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Not AI, not special effects: Watch rare red sprites and mysterious green ghost lights light up the sky over Tibet; internet can't believe it's real

For most of us, thunderstorms are all about lightning bolts, dark clouds and the occasional dramatic sky. Get breaking news anytime, anywhere. Download the TOI app now! But every now and then, nature ...
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Watch: Spectacular rare red sprites and green ghost lights captured in Tibet

A stunning footage showcasing rare red sprites illuminating the upper atmosphere over Tibet's Xizang region has gone viral on social media. Captured by Chinese astrophotographer Dong Shuchang in the ...
Astronomy

Astronomers capture a green ghost in our atmosphere

High up in the atmosphere, near the boundary of space, a dazzling, fleeting flash of red sometimes briefly appears above a thunderstorm before evaporating away. These events, which occur far above ...
Nature

Where ‘green ghost’ lightning gets its emerald hue

A strange type of atmospheric lightning known as a mesospheric ghost probably owes some of its properties to space dust 1. Colourful and oddly shaped lightning phenomena called transient luminous ...
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Not AI, not special effects: Watch rare red sprites and mysterious green ghost lights light up the sky over Tibet; internet can't believe it's real

For most of us, thunderstorms are all about lightning bolts, dark clouds and the occasional dramatic sky.But every now and then, nature puts on a show so extraordinary that it looks straight out of a ...