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  1. Earth's atmosphere with airglow over Southeast Asia at night, with a sprite above tropical thunder clouds.

    Airglow at night is continuous high altitude air gas optical emission, releasing energy that had been accumulated during the daytime.

    Sprites are transient (brief) electric/optical discharges from plasma in the atmosphere above thunderclouds.

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