This new image, taken of the skies above Chile's Atacama Desert near the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) La Silla Observatory, shows bright red streaks in the sky known as red sprites.
Red sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.People have been telling folktales for centuries about mysterious red lights in the sky, which were usually dismissed by experts.
This picture, taken from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows bright red streaks known as red sprites. A meteor even shows up to make this image even more stunning. even when respectable pilots or scientists described them, the scientific community ignored the events. However, in 1989, scientists from the University of Minnesota actually captured pictures of red sprites, and the attitude about them has since changed.
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