Source - Space Weather News for August 31, 2017: http://spaceweather.com
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NEW KIND OF UPPER ATMOSPHERIC LIGHTNING? In recent years, photographers
have catalogued a growing number of luminous forms apparently leaping
up from the tops of thunderstorms. These so-called sprites, elves,
gnomes, and trolls inhabit the upper atmosphere, reaching their
weird-looking tendrils up toward space. On Aug. 14th, an amateur
astronomer in New Mexico photographed a rare curving form of upper
atmospheric lightning that has baffled experts in the field. Shaped
like a funnel or a tornado, it might represent a new addition to the
menagerie of sprites.
Read all about it on today's edition of
Spaceweather.com
Image credit: Thomas Ashcraft
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