NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photograph of one of nature’s most elusive phenomena from the International Space Station on July 3, 2025, initially believing she had documented a sprite, a rare form of atmospheric lightning, only to discover she had captured something even more extraordinary: a gigantic jet.
“Nichole Ayers caught a rare and spectacular form of a TLE from the International Space Station — a gigantic jet,” confirmed Dr. Burcu Kosar, Principal Investigator of NASA’s Spritacular project. The discovery represents one of the clearest views of this atmospheric phenomenon ever documented from space.
I wish every magical-thinking person would just put like 50% more effort in and actually learn about science, because it’s so much cooler when you know it’s actually real and why it’s happening.
I wish every magical-thinking person would join the reality-based community.
I wish the magical-thinking community were not treated like adults and given the ability to vote. That’s just carelessness with our Democracy.
Same, but right now my magical thinking tinfoil cap (the ability to mask as a right wing evangelical) might be the only armor I have under fascism
Learning about science is like learning about magic.
I know. It must have been designed.