Wide Angle: Strange Lightning
Lightning is one of Earth's greatest special effects. It's also one of the greatest mysteries that science is still exploring here and on other worlds. Here's a swing through some of the more intriguing new views of lightning.
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Is Lightning Hotter than the Sun?
What's five times hotter than the sun and capable of sending a DeLorean back to the future? A bolt of lightning.
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10 Reasons I'm Thankful for Lightning
It's scary, sure, but here is a slide show of 10 reasons to be thankful for lightning, especially on Thanksgiving.
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The Lightning Planets
The Scoop: No matter what planet you're on, lighting is about storms, and about ice and rain -- even if it's not necessarily water rain.If you could see Jupiter's magnetic field, it would be the size of the full moon in the sky---the biggest object in the solar system (Saturn actually passed through Jupiter's...
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Tornado Chaser's Lightning Near Miss : Video
As if tornado chasing wasn't dangerous enough, there are stray bolts of lightning to worry about. Storm Chaser Reed Timmer talks about everything you're not supposed to do in an electrical storm.
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Lightning-'Listening' Network Nearly Complete
The World-Wide Lightning Network promises to improve our ability to monitor storms and predict hurricane strength.
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Lightning Holds Fingerprint of Antimatter
Positrons, the antimatter equivalent to electrons, were detected in gamma ray bursts during lightning storms.
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On Lightning and Aircraft
A look back to the Air France disaster, and the dangerous role of lightning in aviation.
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