Caused by an EMP, an ELVES event lasts for less than a thousandth of a second. This snap, from November 2025, shows the enormous phenomenon in one of the few shots ever captured from the ground.

Incredible images show a bizarre UFO-like 230 km-wide ring floating in the sky. Amateur astrophotographer Valter Binotto managed to capture the otherworldly sight over his hometown of Possagno in ...

These brief bursts blue jets, red sprites, ELVES are collectively termed transient luminous events, or TLEs. They explode tens of kilometers high over thunderstorms, in the rarefied atmosphere of the ...

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