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Can static electricity cause a fire?It's commonplace to get a jolt from static electricity. But does it have enough electrical charge to start a fire?
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Mysterious flashes on Venus may be a rain of meteors, new study suggestsBright flashes in the clouds of Venus once thought to be lightning strikes may have a cosmic origin.
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Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomenaAn astronomer in Slovakia captured the rare luminous phenomenon as it briefly flashed in Earth's upper atmosphere during a thunderstorm.
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Photographer captures rare 'gigantic jets' of upside-down lightning blasting out of Atlantic hurricaneGigantic jets, which are 50 times more powerful than typical lightning bolts and can reach the edge of space, were seen erupting out of Hurricane Franklin near Puerto Rico.
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What happens if you get struck by lightning… and survive?Lightning is terrifying, but it's not always deadly. Here's what it does to the human body.
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Watch thousands of lightning bolts crackle over Europe in stunning new satellite videoStunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Tonga 2022 eruption triggered the most intense lightning storm ever recordedThe plume generated during the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption in Tonga created the perfect conditions for a "supercharged" lightning storm.
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Electrifying time-lapse image captures 100 lightning bolts torching the sky over TurkeyThe photographer combined individual images collected over a 50-minute period during an intense thunderstorm in Turkey.
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Eerie ring of red light flashes like a massive UFO above Italy. What was it?An enormous red halo of light flashed in the night sky above Italy before disappearing within milliseconds. It was likely caused by an electromagnetic pulse from a nearby thunderstorm.
