Luke Edwards

Reablement assessor for the NHS. I love the outdoors, wildlife and photography. Father to a gorgeous girl. Gamer when I have time

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

Little Lexi rocking her @SeaOfThieves baby grow! A bit longer until she can officially join the crew #SeaOfThieves

[Tom Stoltman @stoltman_tom]

Running isn’t hard, but as someone with autism, being vulnerable is.

But every day, I’m taking steps to becoming more open & I’m proud of myself for that.
💪🏃

#autism #running #fitness

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@2K Xbox Series X

[2K @2K]

Giveaway! 🚨

We’re giving away 6 copies of the #WWE2K26 Standard Edition to 6 lucky winners.

To enter:
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💬 Comment your console with #WWE2K26

Don’t get counted out! 🔔

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@ATRightMovies Platoon

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.

This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

The wildest shot I’ve ever seen.

@AJamesMcCarthy captured his friend transiting the sun during a skydive.

[National Wildlife Federation @NWF]

Who’s in those yard waste bags? 👀

🐛 Moths
🦋 Butterflies
💡 Fireflies
🦎 Salamanders
🐝 Native Bees
🐜 and more

When you dispose of your leaves, you’re also throwing away about 45% of your spring butterfly and moth populations. 📉

Learn more 📲: https://t.co/12moDXFYCo

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@2K @Borderlands @GearboxOfficial I'll be playing on Xbox Series X....hopefully 🤞🤞

[Cuti Romero @CutiRomero2]

I’m here to stay. Spurs is my family. I love the fans. I love this club.

Cuti.🫡

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

“I love football. I love this club. For me this club is the best in the world.”

Ladies and gentlemen, your captain 🥰

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@GamewithDave Hidden and Dangerous or Duke Nukem 3D

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Goal of the season already?

[WWE NXT @WWENXT]

Say his name and he appears...EVERYWHERE! 😂

@joehendry @ThisIsTNA

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@goffy_ma @Stevejph Hi account thief, you have a right cheek speaking about a low bar using a stollen account from my mother

[Ben @benkenobi2020]

The RARE-est coin in the world! Congratulations on 40 years! Giving 10 away.

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Keep an eye on other community creators and shows for more chances to get one! Sending out to them soon!

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

@AdamRichman I'd try Rodizio Rico at the O2 for endless great meats, or Masala Zone in Covent Garden for a great curry. Also Gusto b.l.k Itallian restaurant by Gidea Park station is a winner!

[Luke Edwards @xfsluke]

Just a warning to everybody, this @goffy_ma was my mothers account which has been hacked and stollen from her and they've changed her name to this goffy name. We have their email address and police and online fraud team are aware

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

BREAKING: An incredible "gigantic jet" – an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning – was photographed from the International Space Station on Friday morning.

This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above.

Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in the U.S. Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She launched to the International Space Station as a pilot of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission on March 14, and will be returning to Earth soon.

On Thursday morning, July3, she captured an unbelievable photo of an ultra-rare GIANT JET. The International Space Station was over Mexico and the southern U.S. at the time.

It looks like the instigating thunderstorm was happening somewhere near Sabinas in Coahuila, Mexico around 1:30 a.m. Central time Thursday.

Gigantic jets are a subset of “blue jets,” which themselves are a type of TLE — or transient luminous event, often referred to as “upper-atmospheric lightning.” There are different types of TLEs, including red “sprites,” green “elves” and blue jets.

Blue jets are the rarest. Elves and sprites occur high above thunderstorms, but jets bridge a key gap between a thunderstorm and the stratosphere high above. Sometimes they even reach up to the base of the mesosphere — the height at which meteors burn up!

They begin as a cloud-to-air discharge that emanates out the top of thunderstorms, but immediately grow to MASSIVE sizes — up to 30 miles tall! They shoot upwards at speeds of 6 to 90 miles PER SECOND, but only last two or three tenths of a second. They are bright blue (almost like a neon sign, since they are plasma after all). The blue color is believed to stem from “excited” nitrogen.
It’s believed that blue jets start as an ordinary lightning strike in the top of thunderclouds, where abundant positive charge is present. Sometimes there’s a negative charge in the clear air above. Instead of the negative charge flowing down to balance out the positive, sometimes the positive shoots upwards into the clear negative skies above. The result? A positive discharge that propagates upwards.

Gigantic jets are even more spectacular. Emerging research suggests they begin as a discharge between negative charge in the mid-levels of the cloud and the positive tops of clouds. That leads to a *negative* “leader” of electricity that shoots upwards and escapes the cloud before it can actually discharge and “balance out” charge within the cloud.

You can tell this one was a “gigantic jet” because of the reddish tops that resembles the stem of a carrot. That’s a sign the gigantic jet reached even higher altitudes — perhaps 50 to 60 miles above the ground.

Atmospheric electrodynamicists (the fancy term for folks who study lightning) are learning about all sorts of never before-discovered lightning discharges. Most of what we know comes from photos like this! In recent years, scientists have coined new terms for curious, fleeting discharges — “trolls”, “pixies”, “ghosts” and “gnomes”.

The existence of upper-atmospheric wasn’t known until July 6, 1989, when a researcher named R.C. Franz left a camera running overnight to capture the night sky. For decades, pilots had reported seeing strange red and blue flashes above thunderstorms, but it wasn’t until Franz obtained photographic evidence that scientists were able to delve deeper into the mystery.

Nowadays, most of what we know comes from photographers who happen to get lucky — especially since the flashes usually last only a couple milliseconds. Ayers’ photo is truly a one-of-a-kind capture that will hopefully shed more light on how TLEs behave.

[OTUS Project @project_otus]

Inside the EF3+ Spiritwood, ND wedge tornado near peak intensity from our research drone!

[TORRO (Tornado & Storm Research Organisation) @TorroUK]

https://t.co/4zfGQ5iRj3