Posts tagged with ‘thunderstorms’

NASA discovers that terrestrial thunderstorms can create antimatter

A space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out streams of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.

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Freaky storm front scares the crap out of Finnish beachgoers

A very dark, pronounced and bizarre storm front rolled up on a beach in Finland and it was so startling, it scared the crap out of beachgoers, who probably thought the invasion had begun.

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