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👻 Atmospheric Ghosts: The Red Phantoms of the Sky 🌌 High above thunderstorms—where the sky meets space—mysterious red flashes flicker for milliseconds, vanishing before you can blink. These are "Atmospheric Ghosts" (officially called ELVES, PETER PAN, or Gigantic Jets), and they’re some of the rarest—and least understood—electrical phenomena on Earth! What Are They? ELVES (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations): Massive red rings (300 km wide!) that pulse above storms. Gigantic Jets: Electric blue/red tendrils that shoot up toward space (not down like lightning). PETER PAN (Panospheric Electromagnetic Transients Emitted by Red Neddles): Thin, red spikes that stab into the ionosphere. (Fun fact: They were only discovered in 1989—and some scientists joke they’re "the sky’s screen savers"!)
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