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Astronaut photographs strange light phenomenon that looks like a fleet of alien spacecraft
Tuesday July 16, 2024. 05:48 PM , from BoingBoing
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this strange photo while aboard the International Space Station. While they look like a fleet of alien spacecraft above Earth, they're actually 'red sprites.'
These rare flashes of light are a kind of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) that appear high above the clouds in the mesosphere, the third highest layer of Earth's atmosphere. — Read the rest The post Astronaut photographs strange light phenomenon that looks like a fleet of alien spacecraft appeared first on Boing Boing.
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