#PhotoOfTheDay: Sprites Over Château de Beynac

A flash of lightning, and then—something else.

High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/sprites-over-chateau-de-beynac/