Thunderstorms produce gamma rays when electrons get accelerated in strong electric fields that build up inside the clouds (SN: 3/15/19). These electrons produce more electrons, and so on.

They also understood that thunderstorms produce a lower-level, faint glow of gamma rays. The mechanism driving these bursts has long been attributed to the relativistic runaway electron avalanche ...

Gamma-ray Emissions in Tropical Thunderstorms. The study also uncovered new details about how tropical thunderstorms differ from those at higher latitudes in terms of their gamma-ray emissions.

Thunderstorms are far more radioactive than previously thought, routinely producing a vast array of gamma rays, new research has found. An artist's impression shows a NASA plane flying over gamma ...

Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s lightning. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 20, 2024.

Storm Chasing in a Spy Plane. In the 1990s, gamma rays from a few large thunderstorms pinged the sensors on NASA satellites, which had been built to study gamma ray bursts coming from dead stars ...

Gamma-ray glows and terrestrial flashes were previously known to come from thunderstorms, but the newly described FGFs are a sort of goldilocks radiation, lasting longer than the terrestrial ...

PARIS: Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday, upending what was previously thought — and potentially pointing ...

Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many people aren’t necessarily aware of another common byproduct: gamma radiation.Thanks to a creative retrofit of an old U-2 spy ...

Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday, upending what was previously thought -- and potentially pointing towards a clue in ...