From nature to architecture, Italian photographer Valter Binotto specializes in many forms of photography, but some of his favorite scenes seem to capture weather and the night sky. On Nov. 17, he snapped an exceedingly rare snapshot of a type of upper-atmospheric lightning called an "ELVES."
The word is actually an acronym of "emission of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources." What that means is that an ELVES is a quick-flash form of lightning that forms in the upper atmosphere, above intense lightning storms.
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