Source - Space Weather News for April 6, 2017:
http://spaceweather.comRED
ELVEs OVER EUROPE: The season for exotic lightning is underway. On
April 2nd, a photographer in central Europe photographed a ring-shaped
'ELVE' hovering above the countryside of the Czech republic. The
luminous ring, measuring 300 km in diameter and located ~87 km above
Earth's surface, circled the top of an unusually intense thunderstorm
far below. Red sprites danced around the circumference of the ELVE as
the thunderhead shot pulses of electromagnetic radiation toward the
edge of space. More of these upper atmospheric displays will surely be
observed in the months ahead as spring and summer thunderstorms
intensify.
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