There are also some other rarer, even more spectacular types of lightning: ...

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Red spites, a type of transient luminous event or TLE, appear in the upper atmosphere above a thunderstorm in Oklahoma in April 2025. Photograph by Paul Smith Our atmosphere is like one big electrical ...

These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...

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