Understanding Dark Lightning
January 11, 2013
Researchers studying thunderstorms have made a surprising discovery: The lightning we see with our eyes has a dark competitor that discharges storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are scrambling to understand “dark lightning.”
credit: NASA
Topics:
Weather, Disaster Accident, Physics, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Antimatter, Lightning, Storm, Thunderstorm, atmospheric electricity, Cloud, Electrical phenomena, Astrophysics, Space plasmas
