Fury of the Gods. This phenomenon is so rare that it was considered a legend
A camera captured bursts of rare cosmic rays in the cloud tops during a storm in Hawaii.
Scientists from the Gemini Observatory, located on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, managed to film this rare natural phenomenon.
These are so-called high-temperature lightning - electrical discharges produced in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which reach open space, unlike ordinary rays.
The giant electrical discharge was about 80 km long and is one of the first that astronomers have ever seen.
"Sometimes the electrical energy rises instead of falling and activates a gas in the atmosphere that makes it glow," explained Peter Michaud, the observatory's information services manager. “These discharges go higher and higher into the atmosphere, and because the air there is much thinner, the electrical properties are very different. It's not like the lightning we see down there."
According to Peter Maikod, the observatory's director of information services, these lightning bolts are so rare that they were considered legend until the first photograph in 1989 proved their existence.
