[diggernet]

Yeah, annoying.

This one is better:

https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...

[the_arun]

These are cool too, but sprites over himalayas - https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943

[notachatbot123]

Random Twitter post, is it generated video or anything worth looking at?

[pcrh]

Very impressive video! Such sprites must have been seen at that altitude often enough in history, and as they're quite distinct from lightening I wonder if there is an historical record of them?

[benjiro]

What amazes me more then the jet, is the amount of light pollution from the cities.

[jacquesm]

Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards.

[pavel_lishin]

Yeah - sitting on a porch near Newark, NJ, the sky is a bright hazy dome overhead.

It reminds me of growing up in a big city, too - walking along, looking at the multi-colored clouds above me.

[NKosmatos]

Looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie, where earth is being attacked ;-)

[arghnoname]

Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.

[jgord]

that is spectacular .. thx for link.

[zoeysmithe]

Imagine, say, Yuri Gagarin seeing this and coming down to explain this in 1961. The ISS is only 50 miles higher than Gagarin's flight.