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Lightning in the eyewall of a hurricane beamed antimatter toward the ground
Description: Hurricane Patricia, which battered the west coast of Mexico in 2015, was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Amid the extreme violence of the storm, scientists observed something new: a downward beam of positrons, the antimatter counterpart of electrons, creating a burst of powerful gamma-rays and X-rays. [Source: ScienceDaily]
URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180521131530.htm
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Source: ScienceDaily
Publish Date: 5/21/2018
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