Eerie Red Sky Halo Captured In Rare Alpine ‘Elve’ Event
• Photographer Valter Binotto captured a rare 'elve,' a fleeting red halo, over the Italian Alps.
• Elves are disk-shaped flashes in the upper atmosphere caused by intense electromagnetic pulses from lightning.
• The elve, triggered by a massive negative lightning strike, lasted less than a thousandth of a second.
Photographer captures rare red halo 'elve'
Photographer Valter Binotto captured a rare and stunning 'elve,' a fleeting red halo in the night sky over the Italian Alps on November 17th. This ethereal event, known as an elve (Emission of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources), is a disk-shaped flash occurring high in the Earth's atmosphere above active thunderstorms.
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