Unraveling the mystery of the "anomalous red lightning" in the Himalayas.

After the mysterious and stunning appearance of an unusual red lightning strike over the Himalayas in 2022, scientists have finally come to understand what happened...

After the mysterious and stunning appearance of an unusual red lightning bolt over the Himalayas in 2022, scientists have finally come to understand what happened then.

An image of an unusual red lightning strike over the Himalayas in 2022.

Anomalous red lightning has long been a mystery to scientists and astronomy enthusiasts, until two amateur astronomers unexpectedly brought forth a new discovery about this phenomenon.

On May 19, 2022, two amateur astronomical photographers, Angel An and Shuchang Dong from China, were positioned near Lake Pumoyongcuo (one of the three sacred lakes in the southern Tibetan Plateau) with the goal of capturing rare events in the night sky.

However, what they witnessed and photographed afterward was completely beyond their imagination. More than 100 bizarre red lightning bolts suddenly appeared and illuminated the night sky.

Red lightning bolts danced everywhere, some with secondary branches, and something unprecedented in Asia occurred: the appearance of extremely rare green lights at the bottom of the ionosphere above the Himalayas. Scientists now call this phenomenon "red anomalous lightning."

Images and videos of the mysterious lightning phenomenon in the Himalayas quickly spread across global social media platforms.

In a new report published in the March issue of the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, scientists analyzed these images to find the origin of this rare natural phenomenon.

Co-author Gaopeng Lu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences suggests that the anomalous red lightning originates from a main lightning strike carrying a maximum current released within a large convection system, spreading across a cloud region covering more than 200,000 square kilometers.

Researchers say the source lightning strike triggered a series of anomalous red lightning flashes that appeared within a convection system stretching from the Ganges plain to the southern foothills of the Tibetan Plateau.

"This suggests that thunderstorms in the Himalayas may generate some of the most complex and powerful upper-atmospheric lightning phenomena on Earth," according to Dr. Lu.

(According to thanhnien.vn)

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