"Using a newly developed instrument that measures ultraviolet emissions from coronae, the first direct observations and quantifications of coronae are presented for two trees under a thunderstorm in North Carolina. Coronae moved sporadically among leaves on every tree branch in a narrow field of view while the thunderstorm was directly overhead... Similar results across four additional storm intercepts from Florida to Pennsylvania give rise to a vision of swaths of scintillating corona glow as thunderstorms pass over forests."

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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119591?af=R

Red Sprites above The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Photographer Danny Welgama says red sprites happen in the blink of an eye.

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