Red Sprite, Taken by Giacomo Venturin on August 29, 2025 @ Monte Tomba – Italy
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SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/01/2025
RED SPRITES OVER ITALY: You know what comes out of the bottom of a thundercloud: lightning. But do you know what comes out of the top? The answer is sprites. Sometimes when an especially fierce lightning bolt connects with the ground, a corresponding discharge leaps from the top of the cloud toward space. These “sprites” are red, fleeting, and they tend to come in bunches.
On Aug. 29th, Giacomo Venturin of Monte Tomba, Italy, photographed a bunch of sprites dancing over a storm cell 300 km away:
