On July 2, the crew of the International Space Station recorded a rare atmospheric phenomenon - a sprite. Unlike ordinary lightning, which strikes downwards, sprites rush into space to a height of up to 130 km.

Sprites are short-lived electrical discharges in the mesosphere that occur above powerful thunderstorms. They have a reddish hue and last only tenths of a second, making them difficult to observe from Earth.

Earlier www1.rureported on giant solar prominences filmed by astronomers.

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Soyuz-2.1a rocket successfully launched the Progress MS-31 cargo ship into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Two giant prominences erupted on the Sun

Highly accurate model for long-term forecasting of solar activity developed at Perm Polytechnic University