They appear for just a milisecond.
A photographer looking for storms to capture instead caught the sight of rare red lightning sprites in the night sky above Arizona.
“A large storm moved clear down in Mexico about 150 miles south of our position at Windy Point lining up perfectly with the Milky Way core,” explains McCown. “After some instruction on how to photograph sprites, most in our group were able to catch these elusive gems.”Sprites, a phenomenon only discovered about 20 years ago, are upper atmospheric discharges from lightning. They occur some 50 miles above thunderstorms, appearing moments after a lightning strike.
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