Rare ‘sprites’ photographed beside Southern Lights

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An Australian photographer has captured images of rare sprites, a meteor shower and the Southern Lights – all in a single night. Sprites – flashes of electricity – can reach the Earth’s upper atmosphere, often displaying as a brilliant light. "It’s an intense electrical discharge out of the very top of a thunderstorm," photographer David Finlay told the BBC. He took photos of the "space…

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May 4, 2017 at 07:11AM