After the typhoon "White Deer", a red and purple light flashed in Shaoxing sky. What happened?

After some natural disasters, there are always some strange phenomena. After typhoon Bailu, a purple light appeared in Shaoxing sky.

You can never predict what will happen in the sky after the storm, because the sky on earth is so magical that there will always be various astronomical wonders. On the evening of August 25th, after the typhoon "White Deer" named 1 1, the storm clouds over Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China were slowly dissipating, and an unusual astronomical spectacle suddenly appeared in the sky, which even foreign scientists called unique.

According to Shen Chao, a science enthusiast and star photographer in Shaoxing, the dark clouds are slowly dispersing, and the night sky is immediately covered with bright stars. But at this time, a very long and huge red and purple light suddenly flashed in the sky. He originally planned to photograph the stars in the Milky Way, and he immediately recorded this lucky moment. The photo shows a long red and purple light in the same frame as the stars in the Milky Way.

In science, the red and purple light in the photo is an astronomical phenomenon, and it is called the lightning elf. Belonging to an atmospheric discharge phenomenon. Although the principle is similar to that of the red elf, it is essentially different from the phenomenon of the red elf. The red elf exists for a very short time, and it is difficult for people to see it with the naked eye, but the lightning elf can last for hundreds of milliseconds and reach the visible range of the naked eye.

Although the phenomenon of lightning elves was discovered as early as 1989, and since then, thousands of people have captured it, but the huge lightning elves are still rarely captured by people. Some researchers believe that cosmic rays triggered this "instantaneous luminous event" through the air. If so, now is a good time to study lightning elves, because cosmic rays are close to the high point of the space age.

That purple light is an astronomical phenomenon called lightning elves.