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Transient Luminous Events: Sprites, Jets, and ELVES

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The James Webb Space Telescope is showing us the universe as we’ve never seen it before. But there’s a lot to see in the upper atmosphere of our own Earth. Satellites outfitted with the most recent camera technology can now see what were once rare, distant events with astonishing resolution. Transient Luminous Events are spectacular and mysterious types of lightning that happen in the upper atmosphere. And we get to see them up close. Here’s more from the team at Astrum.

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