Sprite Lightning in High Definition

At first I thought "wow, they're so smooth" but then realized that the dynamics must be so incredibly fast that the fuzzy smoothness is really just motion blur. Amazing though....

I find that just creepy looking. I could imagine that visitors from somewhere else could look like that.

Buried the lede:<p><i>Astronomy Picture of the Day<p>Explanation: Sometimes lightning occurs out near space.</i><p>Red sprite lightning, for people dreaming of living on the red planet, I guess.

click &quot;extraordinarily high-resolution&quot; ;)

When clicking on the link to try to view the high resolution image, first I got dogs (which was humorous, I&#x27;ll admit), but the second time I was taken to Facebook which of course just has highly compressed jpegs... why are they making it so difficult