Lightning is just one of the many spectacular luminous events that occur in Earth's atmosphere. A particularly sought-after and mysterious one is red sprites, flashes of red-orange light that happen at altitudes of 50 to 90 kilometers (31 to 56 miles). They are very difficult to capture as despite being huge – up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) across – they only flash for a millisecond or so, so it truly blows our mind that two astrophotographers have captured over 100 in a row dancing in the sky over the Himalayas. ADVERTISEMENT Red sprites are electrical phenomena happening in the...