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Yeah, annoying. This one is better: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-Sprite1.jpeg https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nicho

Yeah, annoying. This one is better: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-Sprite1.jpeg https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...

the_arun 1y ago
These are cool too, but sprites over himalayas - https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943 https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943
- notachatbot123 1y ago
  Random Twitter post, is it generated video or anything worth looking at?
  - tim333 1y ago
    Seems to match google image search https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=8d888c12df67f607&sxsrf=AE3TifNcxVXhd0-bfKj0J8kI-XoAe7igTg:1755520535113&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuYzzFkfneXafNx6OMdA4MQRJc_t_TQjwHYrzlkIauOKj9nSuujpEIbB1x32lFLEvPT3JmO8mWQjm2X3w-eMKXZqybhDj3i5Wu9UMtCHW8GA4cXBCEvRrRsrYnavCAsycNHa8_IrZq-JmJhTMsJpZHfxulZ2ge7GIU0CU33zhJgsKEnjjQ&q=sprites+over+himalayas&ved=2ahUKEwiEt5DPr5SPAxWKYEEAHUw_ONkQtKgLegQIChAB&biw=1604&bih=838&dpr=1.8 https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=8d888c12...
- pcrh 1y ago
  Very impressive video! Such sprites must have been seen at that altitude often enough in history, and as they're quite distinct from lightening I wonder if there is an historical record of them?
jgord 1y ago
that is spectacular .. thx for link.
zoeysmithe 1y ago
Imagine, say, Yuri Gagarin seeing this and coming down to explain this in 1961. The ISS is only 50 miles higher than Gagarin's flight.
arghnoname 1y ago
Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.
NKosmatos 1y ago
Looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie, where earth is being attacked ;-)
benjiro 1y ago
What amazes me more then the jet, is the amount of light pollution from the cities.
- jacquesm 1y ago
  Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards.
- pavel_lishin 1y ago
  Yeah - sitting on a porch near Newark, NJ, the sky is a bright hazy dome overhead. It reminds me of growing up in a big city, too - walking along, looking at the multi-colored clouds above me.

Yeah, annoying. This one is better: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-Sprite1.jpeg https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...

the_arun 1y ago

These are cool too, but sprites over himalayas - https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943 https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943

notachatbot123 1y ago
Random Twitter post, is it generated video or anything worth looking at?
- tim333 1y ago
  Seems to match google image search https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=8d888c12df67f607&sxsrf=AE3TifNcxVXhd0-bfKj0J8kI-XoAe7igTg:1755520535113&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeuYzzFkfneXafNx6OMdA4MQRJc_t_TQjwHYrzlkIauOKj9nSuujpEIbB1x32lFLEvPT3JmO8mWQjm2X3w-eMKXZqybhDj3i5Wu9UMtCHW8GA4cXBCEvRrRsrYnavCAsycNHa8_IrZq-JmJhTMsJpZHfxulZ2ge7GIU0CU33zhJgsKEnjjQ&q=sprites+over+himalayas&ved=2ahUKEwiEt5DPr5SPAxWKYEEAHUw_ONkQtKgLegQIChAB&biw=1604&bih=838&dpr=1.8 https://www.google.co.uk/search?num=10&sa=X&sca_esv=8d888c12...
pcrh 1y ago
Very impressive video! Such sprites must have been seen at that altitude often enough in history, and as they're quite distinct from lightening I wonder if there is an historical record of them?

jgord 1y ago

that is spectacular .. thx for link.

zoeysmithe 1y ago

Imagine, say, Yuri Gagarin seeing this and coming down to explain this in 1961. The ISS is only 50 miles higher than Gagarin's flight.

arghnoname 1y ago

Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.

NKosmatos 1y ago

Looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie, where earth is being attacked ;-)

benjiro 1y ago

What amazes me more then the jet, is the amount of light pollution from the cities.

jacquesm 1y ago
Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards.
pavel_lishin 1y ago
Yeah - sitting on a porch near Newark, NJ, the sky is a bright hazy dome overhead. It reminds me of growing up in a big city, too - walking along, looking at the multi-colored clouds above me.