McDonald Observatory
On rare summer nights, ethereal forms leap into the skies above distant thunderstorms. Alien invaders? Not quite: it's a jellyfish sprite, an extremely brief and rarely captured event associated with incredibly powerful lightning strikes. This event lasted less than 1/30th of a second and occurred above a powerful storm about 100 miles away as seen from McDonald Observatory on July 2nd, 2020.
Image Credit: Stephen Hummel
Really spectacular. I could see people drawing all sorts of outlandish conclusions about what they saw after witnessing one of these.
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