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2. Terrestrial gamma-ray flash - Wikipedia

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   Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes pose a challenge to current theories of lightning, especially with the discovery of the clear signatures of antimatter produced in lightning. [ 25 ] It has been discovered in the past 15 years that among the processes of lightning is some mechanism capable of generating gamma rays , which escape the atmosphere and ...

3. Ball lightning - Wikipedia

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   Ball lightning is a possible source of legends that describe luminous balls, such as the mythological Anchimayen from Argentinean and Chilean Mapuche culture.. According to a statistical investigation carried out in 1960, of 1,962 Oak Ridge National Laboratory monthly role personnel, and of all 15,923 Union Carbide Nuclear Company personnel in Oak Ridge, found 5.6% and 3.1% respectively ...

4. Lichtenberg figure - Wikipedia

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   The slight branching redness traveling up this person's leg was created by current from a nearby lightning strike A Lichtenberg figure (German Lichtenberg-Figur ), or Lichtenberg dust figure , is a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials .

5. Sprite (lightning) - Wikipedia

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   When a sufficiently large positive lightning strike carries charges to the ground, the cloud top is left with a strongly negative net charge. This can be modeled as a quasi-static electric dipole and for less than 10 milliseconds a strong electric field is generated in the region above the thunderstorm.

6. Photographer captures lightning strike on Christ the ... - AOL

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   A Brazilian photographer, Fernando Braga, went viral recently for his stunning image of lightning striking the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. “It was unbelievable at first. Like a ...

7. Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

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   Representation of upper-atmospheric lightning and electrical-discharge phenomena Discovery image of a TLE on Jupiter by the NASA Juno probe. [1]Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning and storm clouds.

8. Light - Wikipedia

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   The refractive quality of lenses is frequently used to manipulate light in order to change the apparent size of images. Magnifying glasses , spectacles , contact lenses , microscopes and refracting telescopes are all examples of this manipulation.

9. Lightning - Wikipedia

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   Lightning is a natural phenomenon formed by electrostatic discharges through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions, either both in the atmosphere or one in the atmosphere and one on the ground, temporarily neutralizing these in a near-instantaneous release of an average of between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules of energy, depending on the type.