No doubt you've witnessed thunderstorms here on Earth: the flash of lightning, the rumble of thunder, the dark skies that birth heavy rain and gusty winds.

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But have you ever seen thunderstorms...in space?

While satellites in space have given researchers a first-hand look at "the other side of the storm" for a few decades, the ocial media has allowed astronauts to give an out-of-this-world view of nature's electric show.

snapped a video of this cluster of thunderstorms developing over Africa.

The flashes in the video are lightning bolts that are striking the ground, but the waves of light emitted by the lightning bolts have also propogated upwards, allowing Virts' camera to capture the dazzling spectacle.

But that is not the only phenomenon related to lightning that can be viewed in space.

In addition to the electrical downstrokes that progogate toward the Earth, many lightning bolts produce upward electrical emissions that are known as transient luminous events, or more commonly as "blue jets," "red sprites" and "elves."

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Sometimes, under the right atmospheric conditions, blue jets and red sprites can be observed on Earth.

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