雲を照らす街の灯りCity lights lit up thick Clouds

Volcanic Smoke Ring by Tom Pfeiffer

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schilthornbahn, stechelberg

Red Sprites over the Channel

Mysterious and incredibly brief, red sprites are seen to occur high above large thunderstorms on planet Earth. While they have been recorded from low Earth orbit or high flying airplanes, these dancing, lightning-like events were captured in video frames from a mountain top perch in northern France. Taken during the night of May 28, the remarkably clear, unobstructed view looks toward a multicell storm system raging over the English Channel about 600 kilometers away. Lasting only a few milliseconds, the red sprite association with thunderstorms is known. Still, much remains a mystery about the fleeting apparitions including the nature of their relation to other upper atmospheric lightning phenomena such as blue jets or satellite detected terrestrial gamma flashes.

Image Credit: Stephane Vetter (Nuits sacrees, TWAN)

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1. The LED screen shows the rising sun on the Tiananmen Square which is shrouded with heavy smog on January 16, 2014 in Beijing, China. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

2. The LED screen shows the blue sky on the Tiananmen Square at dangerous levels of air pollution on January 23, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)

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Johannes Kepler Observatory located in Linz, Austria.

by: H. Raab

The Sky Above, The Earth Below ~ Groton MA ~ 27 May 2015

Skylines of Berlin June 2016