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NASA Discovers Mysterious Gamma Radiation Bursts from Earth: The Connection to Thunderstorms Unveiled

It all started in the 1990s, when the US space agency NASA satellites built to detect high-energy particles coming from supernova stars (and beyond) detected bursts of high-energy gamma radiation coming from Earth. Researchers soon realized that these radioactive particles came from thunderstorms, but the frequency of this phenomenon was still a mystery. So far.

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2024-10-05 17:50:00
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