Rare Red Sprites Caught Dancing Over the Himalayas

High above Pumoyongcuo Lake on the Tibetan Plateau, astrophotographers Angel An and Shuchang Dong captured over 100 rare red sprites in a single night. These fleeting electrical discharges, triggered by high-peak current lightning, illuminated the sky above a massive thunderstorm stretching from the Ganges Plain to Tibet’s foothills. This rare and breathtaking event in 2022, now the focus of a groundbreaking study, showcases one of South Asia’s most spectacular sprite displays ever recorded.