14 DAY TRIAL // Graduate student Jason Ahrns has spent the past summer flying over the US' Midwestern regions. He had one goal in mind: spotting red lightnings and snapping pictures of them.
Luckily for us, Jason Ahrns did manage to catch several such elusive electric bursts on camera. The picture above was taken this past August 12 over Red Willow County in Nebraska.
The red lightnings featured in it are shaped like a column, the graduate student explains.
According to Live Science, odd electric bursts such as the ones pictured above are known to the scientific community as sprites. They typically last less than a second.
Because sprites form on top of thunderstorms, it's difficult to spot them from the ground.
Those who wish to see them and take pictures of them more often than not are left with no choice except hop on a plane and start chasing thunderstorms.