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How Lightning Works Infographic

A zoomed-in photo showing the gigantic jet up close

colorful flashes of lightning can be seen among dense clouds

Stunning tropical landscape of Madagascar highlands during a storm with a flash of lighting in the background.

A simulation of turbulence between stars that resembles a psychedelic rainbow marbled pattern

A crowd of people in Sants train station in Barcelona, Spain.

An image of the sun with solar wind coming off of it

A lightning "mapper" on the GOES-16 satellite captured images of the megaflash lightning bolt on April 29, 2020, over the southeastern U.S.

In this illustration, men are enthralled by ball lightning, observed at the Hotel Georges du Loup, near Nice. To this day, ball lightning remains mysterious.

The "wildfires" in this image are actually Orion�s Flame Nebula and its surroundings captured in radio waves. The image was taken with the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), located in Chile�s Atacama Desert.

In this aerial view of Mayfield, Kentucky, homes are shown badly destroyed after a tornado ripped through the area overnight Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.

Caught on high-speed video, lightning streamers of opposite polarity approach and connect in this sequence of video frames, slowed by more than 10,000-fold. The common streamer zone appears in the last two frames before the whiteout of the lightning flash. This lasted about 0.00003 seconds at full speed

Tropical Storm Theta

Infographic: The layers and functions of the human skin.

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Fukushima fuel rod infographic

infographic of human body sweat

Today�s GoFIgure looks at phobias, defined as irrational fears of things which are not likely to be dangerous.

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