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The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth
Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms.
They occur high above the clouds, almost silently, and are invisible to most people—but they reflect powerful processes unfolding deep within thunderstorms,” says Hailiang Huang, a Ph.D. student at the University of Science and Technology of China who studies TLEs. The team found 16 secondary jets, powerful columns of often blue or purple light darting upwards into the sky, and at least four ghosts, green hazy glows that can sometimes hover above red sprites. Since TLEs are so fleeting in nature, Kosar and her collaborator József Bór, a TLE researcher at the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science in Hungary, agree that their project’s strength lies in the people of Spritacular.
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