Copyright:
Mike Hollingshead
(Extreme Instability)
原文:
What are those red streaks in the sky? While photographing unexpected auroras over a distant thunderstorm, something extraordinary happened: red sprites. This brief instance of rarely imaged high-altitude lightning flashed so bright that it was witnessed by several people independently. Pictured over Minnesota, USA in May 2013, these red sprites likely followed an extremely powerful low-altitude conventional lightning bolt. Captured in the featured frame are a house and electrical pole in the foreground, thick clouds in the lower atmosphere, a lightning storm on the horizon, distant red sprites and green aurora in the upper atmosphere, and distant stars from our local neighborhood of the Milky Way Galaxy. The spectacular image is thought to be only the second known case of sprites and auroras photographed together, and possibly the first in true color. Follow APOD on: Facebook, Google Plus, or Twitter
中文翻譯:
在距離雷陣雨的地方拍攝不尋常的極光時，發生了一件非凡的事情：紅色精靈。在這幅照片中捕捉到的閃光如此明亮，以至於幾個人獨立目擊了它。這張2013年5月於美國明尼蘇達州拍攝的圖片中，紅色精靈很可能是跟隨著一個極其強大的低海拔常規閃電所產生的。照片前景展示了一座房子和電線桿，低層大氣中有厚厚的雲層，地平線上是一場雷陣雨，遠處的紅色精靈與上層大氣中的綠色極光，以及來自我們的本地銀河系——銀河系的星星一起呈現在畫面中。這張壯觀的圖片被認為是第二次拍攝精靈和極光同時出現的案例，並且可能是首度以真實顏色拍攝。
#紅色精靈 #極光 #雷陣雨 #明尼蘇達 #自然奇觀 #天文學 #攝影藝術 #銀河系 #光的奇蹟
來源:NASA每日圖片
