tgfs: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes

tgfs: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes

Images (pictured) of gamma rays flashes from thunderstorm, captured by Fermi space telescope. Scientists believe this may occur up to 500 times daily. The Daily Galaxy article explains, a space telescope has accidentally spotted thunderstorms on Earth producing beams of antimatter. Such storms have long been known to give rise to fleeting sparks of light called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. But results from the Fermi telescope show they also give out streams of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.” A YouTube video from NASA, Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter,” is rewarding three minutes.

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