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Sprites no we're not talking about

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fairies or soda today Sprites are huge

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bursts of red light that form high in

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Earth's atmosphere above thunderstorms

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their large-scale electrical discharges

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of air that form after a powerful

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lightning blast they come in various

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shapes and sizes sometimes looking like

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a huge red jellyfish glowing in the

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night sky

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unlike hot lightning Sprites are

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relatively cool and best viewed from

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hundreds of miles away from a

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thunderstorm they're fairly Elusive and

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it can be hard to predict where and when

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a Sprite will appear the first Sprite

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was only captured on film in 1989.

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however eyewitness reports stay back

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almost a century

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so we're still learning more about what

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causes them and how they influence

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Earth's upper atmosphere in fact anyone

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who captures pictures of Sprites from

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the ground can submit their images to

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help scientists study Sprites and other

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similar phenomena and by the way it's

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not just Earth the Juno Mission predicts

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that Sprites can exist in Jupiter's

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atmosphere as well Jupiter's