Blue 'sprites' and 'elves': NASA investigates flashes that appear above storms on Jupiter

NASA's Juno captured electric blue 'sprites' and 'elves' dancing in Jupiter's atmosphere. These objects occur on Earth, but this is the first time they have been observed on another world. The flashes, which are deemed sprites, resemble a jellyfish with long tendrils flowing down toward the ground, and elves appear as a flattened glowing disc that can stretch up to 200 miles across the sky. Juno scientists spotted the cosmic displays 186 miles above the altitude where the majority of the gas giant's lightning forms , in

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