r/BeAmazed • u/qwertyclubsss • Jun 02 '26
Nature Oh my god that is one of the most beautiful phenomenas on earth!
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u/InformalPresent4297 Jun 02 '26
Sprites!!
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u/Darth_Draper Jun 02 '26
Cokes!
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto Jun 02 '26
Mountain Dews!
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u/be4u4get Jun 02 '26
Dr Peppers!!!
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u/OneMoreNightCap Jun 02 '26
RC Colas
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u/Alex_AU_gt Jun 02 '26
Fantas!!
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u/Lazy-Equivalent1028 Jun 02 '26
Shasta!
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u/Endtimes2022 Jun 02 '26
Okay what is this? Sky turning red.
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u/joalheagney Jun 02 '26
Red sprites. Lightning has two aspects. This is what you normally don't see because it's above the clouds. Now the fun part, is we know these strikes contain antimatter in the form of positrons!
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u/Endtimes2022 Jun 02 '26
Thanks a ton never knew of it. Four decades on the planet and never even heard of it.
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u/CatStratford Jun 02 '26
Same and same. I love learning something new! One of my favorite things about living- there’s always something else to learn. Now I can say red sprites are a part of lightning, beautiful, rarely seen, and contain antimatter! I still don’t quite understand antimatter though. More to learn.
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u/oldfarmjoy Jun 02 '26
This is why I'm addicted to reddit. I learn something new in every post. I love reading comments!
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u/carl3266 Jun 02 '26
Same. I hate what social media has turned so many into. No one has any need to impress here. And i am both educated and entertained by the content.
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u/cairoxl5 Jun 02 '26
Anyone remember Stumbleupon? That stuff was like education on meth.
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u/PenniGwynn Jun 02 '26
I have so much useless knowledge in my brain because of that site.
It was so much fun, just endless discovery.
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u/malieno Jun 02 '26
plus the thread structure allows for people having actual discussions. In*tagram could never.
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u/oldfarmjoy Jun 02 '26
Yes, i love that aspect. It really feels like a community! ❤️ People connecting with people.
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u/calm-phil Jun 02 '26
You got to dig pretty deep through the bullshit most of the time.
Between shitposting and taking rage bait, I ain't got that much time to scroll and find truth!
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u/Illyade Jun 02 '26
That's why i carefully choose (most of the time) the subs i'm interested in, in order to slightly guide my feeds towards interesting and passionate stuff, for instance a lot of hobbies and overall positives topics, at least that's what i'm trying to do, everyday business can be pretty exhausting and grim, so let's cheer up and find motivation to keep on going
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u/Michaelscot8 Jun 02 '26
Anti-matter is basically opposite matter. Certain reactions that are incredibly high energy can convert energy, into matter. This happened very fast on a very very big scale at the start of the big bang. For whatever reason, more matter was made than antimatter. Because antimatter and matter instantly annihilate on contact, there's much more matter than antimatter in the universe to this day, because its out numbered whenever it's created.
Antimatter itself, is basically just mirror world matter. For example, our electrons carry a negative charge, antimatter electrons carry a positive charge, hence the name positron.
Anti-matters defining character trait, is that on contact with normal matter, the both particles will be perfectly converted to energy at a rate of E=MC².
The implications of antimatter are vast, but still not very well understood. A fun one is the implication of a corresponding anti-universe to ours, exactly the same but consisting of primarily anti-protons and positrons.
Another important factor is near infinite energy density, at least compared to our current. Since anti-matter matter annihilation is near perfect 1:1 mass energy conversion. For reference, the rocket fuel launching the Artemis II payload into space weighed about 4.6 million pounds, it would've taken only about 30 grams of anti-matter to produce an equivalent amount of energy.
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u/chironomidae Jun 02 '26
Y'all need more science in your lives! I recommend PBS Spacetime on YouTube, it can be a little dense sometimes but I think they do a great job explaining things like antimatter, black holes, relativity, etc.
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u/CatStratford Jun 02 '26
I actually watch shows like The Universe and other educational shows, but I tend to fall asleep… lol I really do love both weather and astronomy. It’s just the formatting tends to lull me. I’m also ashamed to admit it, but I struggle with understanding things like dark matter, antimatter, string theory, quantum physics, etc. I’ve had some of it explained to me but I still don’t really understand. I’m not an idiot, I graduated with a 4.0 at university… for whatever that’s worth. But my brain goes scrambled eggs with that kind of thing. It might as well be a different language.
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u/AnswerReal1942 Jun 02 '26
I don’t understand it either, you’re not alone. I could watch it 5 times and still be lost when it comes to that sort of science-y stuff
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u/OneSensiblePerson Jun 02 '26
Love your attitude!
Red sprites contain antimatter in the form of positrons! (I don't know what positrons are either.)
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u/revan530 Jun 02 '26
Positrons are the antimatter equivalent of electrons. While electrons have a negative electrical charge, positrons have a positive electrical charge.
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u/OneSensiblePerson Jun 02 '26
Why aren't electrons called negatrons?
Asking for a friend.
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u/joalheagney Jun 02 '26
They are named after the charge you generate when you rub elektron, aka amber with fur. One of the earliest examples of generating a static electric charge. Elektron is the ancient Greek name for Amber.
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u/OneSensiblePerson Jun 02 '26
Makes sense. But I still do want them to be called negatrons.
I mean, my friend does.
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u/robisodd Jun 03 '26
They are sometimes called "negatrons", but that's more of a generic term for any negatively-charged particle, which also includes antiprotons and negative beta particles.
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u/OneSensiblePerson Jun 02 '26
Amazingly, I understood this. Thanks for explaining in language even I can get.
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u/CatStratford Jun 02 '26
Hahaha I don’t really know that one either. Science wasn’t my strong suit back in my school days. But I do love it.
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u/ISuckFarts Jun 02 '26
Well, good news is, they only discovered the existence of this phenomena in 1989.
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u/Sassquatch0 Jun 02 '26
Netflix or Hulu has/had a really cool documentary on them. Including photos taken from high-altitude jets (they even used 2 jets for parallax imagine to create 3D models!), and from the ISS.
Well worth the watch.
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u/zanslozil Jun 02 '26
Do you remember the name of the documentary?
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u/Sassquatch0 Jun 02 '26
Just did a quick search, and I think it was "Nova: At the Edge of Space" done by PBS. Sadly, PBS in Montana (where I live) lists the video but actual playback is unavailable, so I can't test to make sure that's the right one.
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u/randousername8675309 Jun 02 '26
Ooh - I know I can search myself, but do you have any personal recommendations as to where I can learn more about this? Our natural world is just so cool.
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u/BunInBinInBed Jun 02 '26
For a casual way, Pecos Hank (a storm chaser on youtube) has a video about red sprites and other storm related stuff.
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Pecos+hank+sprites&ra=m
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u/Dreamwaves1 Jun 02 '26
Just to add, Pecos Hank does REALLY REALLY good tornado videos and I recommend you watch some. The quality and shots he gets are superb
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u/MoffKalast Jun 02 '26
I thought you were gonna send mankind plummeting through an announcer's table but I looked it up and it's genuinely true, how does almost nobody know this thing exists?
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u/Fuckedyourmom69420 Jun 02 '26
How do we even discover that??
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u/joalheagney Jun 02 '26
Positrons and electrons can be produced from raw energy as a matter/antimatter pair. This and other forms of antimatter were discovered in particle colliders first. When the newly created positron collides with another electron, they annihilate back into raw matter in the form of electromagnetic radiation. That radiation has a very distinct and narrow band of frequency, and we can see that frequency in the spectra emitted by red sprites.
If, at any time someone asks "How do we know X is in something distant or hard to reach?", like the elements in stars, organic molecules in space, etc., the answer nearly always comes back to analysing spectra. That experiment you did in high school, where you put different metal salts into a Bunsen flame? That is one of the fundamental tools of science.
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u/HikariAnti Jun 02 '26
As others have said these are red spirits, there are some other types of lighting as well most people don't know about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning?wprov=rarw1
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u/kxkq Jun 02 '26
Original sauce:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DY890VOB0II/
shuchang_dong 董书畅
In the early hours of May 26, 2026, I captured a spectacular display of red sprite lightning by the shores of Lake Puma Yumco in Shannan, Xizang, at an altitude of over 5,000 meters above sea level. Red sprites are a type of transient luminous events (TLEs) in the middle and upper atmosphere, occurring above the anvil tops of intense thunderstorm clouds. During this massive red sprite outbreak, I photographed numerous extremely rare Ghost sprites—the green glow generated when oxygen molecules are excited by the most powerful red sprites. It’s neither AI-generated nor edited with special effects, yet it looks so surreal.
This is the clearest and largest sprite lightning I have captured in four years. Hope you enjoy it. One last note: I am the original creator of this video, and I have not authorized any other accounts to repost or publish it.
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u/NefariousnessLate375 Jun 02 '26
If you ever read this, Suchang Dong, I'm so glad you captured this. It's amazing. Thank you to OP for posting the video and thank you kxkq for crediting Suchang.
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u/jeswell_then Jun 02 '26
So, is it… CAUSING an Aurora? Is that kind of what is happening?
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u/GrandElectronic9471 Jun 02 '26
While both sprites and the aurora borealis are rare, glowing atmospheric phenomena that can appear red, they are entirely different events. Auroras are caused by charged particles from the sun interacting with Earth’s magnetic field, whereas sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that accompany lightning in heavy thunderstorms, but they discharge up from the cloud into the sky and only last 3-10 milliseconds.
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u/Famous-Appearance567 Jun 02 '26
Damn! I didn't know the lightning actually came down thought it just spawned in their hands. Sick af
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u/PolPotDomeScandal Jun 02 '26
*Phenomena
Phenomenon is the singular version of phenomena.
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u/Interesting-Common27 Jun 02 '26
Doo doo de doo doo
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u/oldguydrinkingbeer Jun 02 '26
Every God damn time someone says "phenomenon", I will reply , sometimes very softly, other times loudly,
"Do-do do-do-da.
Do-do-do-do.
Do-do do-do-da."Every God damn time. And then I chuckle.
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u/West-Engine7612 Jun 02 '26
Thank God I'm not the only one that hears this song with that word lol.
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u/xenobit_pendragon Jun 02 '26
Came to say this, but with more snark.
Phenomena and criteria are the two that even highly educated people tend to misuse and it always drives me batty.
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u/AlcheMe_ooo Jun 02 '26
I'm glad they beat you to it, snark shark. You would've clouded your message with the kind of energy that has everyone reactive
And so done your cause you say drives you batty, a disservice
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u/TheShoeOnTheHighway Jun 02 '26
I only learn new things by reading comments on the internet. I had to go look up criteria vs (didnt know at the time) criterion. Now I know criterion is the singular form of criteria. Thanks internet stranger!
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u/donatsukage Jun 02 '26
The Everstorm comes....
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u/Striking-Document-99 Jun 02 '26
Crazy just started book 5 of stormlight and I see references everywhere now.
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u/donatsukage Jun 02 '26
I started reading them about 3 months ago. I'm already almost done with book 3. So good
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u/LessBig715 Jun 02 '26
That interstellar music does something to me
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u/hattyhat24 Jun 02 '26
IMO probably one of the best movie scores ever made.
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u/ParticularReady7858 Jun 02 '26
Context?
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u/windy_not01 Jun 02 '26
THE PRIMORDAL GODS ARE ANGRY. Bring your first borns to the top of the volcano rn rn!
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u/uDrunkMate Jun 02 '26
These are Sprites - rare and very hard to see from the ground. You need almost perfect conditions to capture them.
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u/WatsBlend Jun 02 '26
Its the Everstorm. Voidbringers are upon us
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u/Jaxone1 Jun 02 '26
I see them. They are the rocks. They are the vengeful spirits. Eyes of red.
—Collected on Kakakes 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed young woman of fifteen who was reportedly mentally unstable since childhood.
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u/IveBecomeTooStrong Jun 02 '26
If they blink while recording a video, it will stop recording? How do you think videos work?
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u/Nolzi Jun 02 '26
Even the ghosts, the green afterglows are visible, very nice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning#Ghosts
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u/Ok-Adhesiveness-4935 Jun 02 '26
Thanks for this post! To be that guy: phenomena is already plural. Phenomenon is the singular
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u/w8d2long Jun 02 '26
The sky is glitching
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u/Ghost_assassin_Jo Jun 02 '26
It's incredible how many people go their entire lives without knowing these exist. What other natural phenomena do you think deserve more attention than the Northern Lights?
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u/Powerful-Candy-745 Jun 02 '26
Well I don't live near there so that's probably why.
This year was the first I ever saw/ heard of iridescent clouds. It was so cool to see. Even my teenager and her friend were excited.
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u/RatherNerdy Jun 02 '26
These aren't northern lights, they're called sprites
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u/lunivore Jun 02 '26
When OC says "what other natural phenomena" I think they are implying that this natural phenomenon falls into the category of "things that deserve more attention than the Northern Lights", not that these are the Northern Lights.
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u/qman621 Jun 02 '26
The green flash you see out on the open ocean right as the sun passes the horizon is pretty spectacular
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u/ElegantCoach4066 Jun 02 '26
Am I the only one who thinks the freeze frame is kind of eerie
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u/CeruleanEidolon Jun 02 '26
They always remind me of jellyfish, and I can't escape the idea of massive electrical beings momentarily revealed by thunderstorms.
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u/BrittEklandsStuntBum Jun 02 '26
phenomenas
Phenomena is already plural. The singular is phenomenon.
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u/mimi_molotov Jun 02 '26
What do you call that? I didn't know such a thing existed
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u/hattyhat24 Jun 02 '26
I only found out about these last year. They are called red sprites, upper-atmospheric electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms (typically 30 to 50 miles up in the mesosphere).
Unlike normal lightning, they appear as fleeting, faint red, orange, or purple flashes of light and come in unique shapes like "carrot" or "column" sprites.
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u/IneptPine Jun 02 '26
And whats the name of the photographer? I had this trend of erasing sources by saying "a xyz did abc"
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u/jjbuttons Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
It’s crazy how humans see lightning all year long and yet we still have this complex like we really run shit and have control over anything
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u/bobokeen Jun 02 '26
Why do people share videos on Reddit like this? I'm on my laptop and it's the size of a fucking postage stamp.
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u/novo-280 Jun 02 '26
its stratospheric lightning. the red light is the wave length of double oxygen being ionized into radicals by cosmic radiation
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u/Pr_fSm__th Jun 02 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/KbG4sWMdD6n93HTsK1
Might just be Garp flexing on his ship somewhere
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u/ddraig-au Jun 02 '26
This guy takes a lot of photos of them in far northern Western Australia
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u/Silentlaughter84 Jun 02 '26
Sprites. There's another weather phenomenon that actually goes with these called elves but they flash so fast that the human eye can't catch them. They're ring shaped.
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u/91speed Jun 02 '26
The part the speaker freaks out about at the beginning (“oh, ghosts! Holy moly!”) is the green glow you see at the top of some of these flashes, a relatively recent discovery. HERE is a good video from a well known storm chaser/photographer on all of the various weird shit you can see above lightning.
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u/PhotojournalistOnly Jun 02 '26
Would've loved to hear the actual audio from this storm instead of the music.
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u/MonotonyDauntSonder Jun 02 '26
I don't get it, all this really cool stuff like beetles and shit for what purpose? To send some monkeys to hell forever?
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u/ZeeeeBro Jun 02 '26
Oh no, it's gonna negate my monster effect by tributing a level/rank/link 2 monster
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