Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth. When you ...
Three photographers have captured high-definition images of ‘sprites,’ a phenomenon of flashing red lightning. Sprites are a natural event notoriously difficult to photograph clearly. To escape the ...
Chinese photographer Dong Shuchang, who captured the red sprites, produced a slow motion close-up video of the rare sight on May 31.- SCREENSHOT FROM PAULOWNIA DONG SHUCHANG/WEIBO SINGAPORE: Blink and ...
After all, it is green nomad season all year round in the Territory and a good probing is always on the cards. Then we made a series of “blue light disco” and “shaft of light” jokes. But after ...
When a thunderstorm recently lit up the night sky, cameras captured towering red shapes that looked uncannily like glowing jellyfish hanging above the clouds. The images raced across social media, and ...
Violent lightning, deafening thunder and torrential rain swept across London after days of record-challenging temperatures.
Life as we know it may require lightning, as it's one of the few energy sources a planet has available to create complex chemical compounds. Now, new research has found that lightning, while not very ...