At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/astronaut-captures-an-immense-and-very-rare-energy-jet-above-earth/ … these are otherwise known as sprites and are known from earlier captures on camera. This one is perhaps unique because of its size – and filmed from the International Space Station. It is not a never before seen phenomenon. It is also very probably quite a common event – and is at the top of the atmosphere and therefore generally evades human eyes.
These are more commonly seen as high altitude electrical activity – with a direct connection to lightning in storms lower in the atmosphere. Even, perhaps, to electricity in space – or the protetive sheaf that surrounds our planet, the magnetosphere. Described, or bracketed, as transient luminous events, they occur above electrical storms and are triggered by electrical activity of some kind. What role does electricity have in space? A puzzle that has preoccupied the electric universe people for several decades. See for example, https://thunderbolts.info …
The same story is at https://spaceweather.com pm July 7th 2025 – with added detail. Space lightning photographed from ISS. A crimson bolt arcing from the cloud tops. Most readers of Space Weather have seen many images of sprites. They emerge from the top of thunder storms like upside down lightning. However, the space station one was on steroids. Images of sprites were first recorded in 2001/2002 and there are many of them. Only a few dozen have been photographed with the kind of quality of this new one.