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. … Read more