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Rare dark lightning may briefly strike planes

Dark Lightning is a phenomenon that scientist are just beginning to understand. Dark Lightning is different to normally lightning; dark lightning is a release of high energy gamma radiation. Dark lightning can occur in supernovae, super massive back holes and thunderstorms. Dark Lightning was first reported in 1991, at the time it was thought this was gamma rays coming from space. In 2013 scientists in Norway detected the presence of another type of lightning taking place during a thunderstorm. This lightning known as dark lightning is not visible to the naked eye ...More

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Is the Sun a Burning Fireball?

The Sun is a 4.5 billion year old Yellow Dwarf star in the heart of our solar system. Its gravity holds our solar system together by keeping everything from large planets to space debris in orbit around it. Without the sun life on earth could not exist. Its core temperature is roughly 15 million degrees Celsius and a surface temperature of over 5.5 thousands degrees Celsius. The sun is not actually a giant fireball but rather a perfect ball of super hot plasma. Plasma is superheated matter, at the temperatures of the suns ...More

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