NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore has captured an image of a blue jet sprite in the Earth's atmosphere, a rare phenomenon only ...

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Meanwhile, NASA itself is asking for help in the hunt for red sprites, even setting up a citizen-crowdsourced database – ...

but it was not initially shared by NASA or any other space organization. However, photographer Frankie Lucena, who specializes in capturing giant lightning sprites, stumbled across photos of the ...