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Space & Cosmos
“Killer Electrons”: Thunderstorms play space weather and space pinball
Visualization showing how magnetic field lines, thin lines in cyan color, orbiting the Earth can trap charged particles, thin lines in yellow color. Credit: UCLA EPSS/NASA SVS When lightning strikes, electrons rain down. In a new study, researchers led by undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a new relationship between Earth’s weather and space weather. The…
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