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Did you know volcanoes can produce their own lightning bolts?

Posted on August 2, 2022

Our world truly is an amazing place. Natural phenomena that can awe, terrify and inspire occur somewhere on our planet each and every day.

One phenomenon that can trigger all those feelings at once is lightning.

Virtually everyone has experienced the power and beauty of a lightning strike while waiting out a passing thunderstorm, but did you know volcanoes can produce their own lightning strikes even on a clear and sunny day?

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Video: Lightning in Super-Slow Motion

Posted on July 25, 2022

Confession time…

I have always been fascinated and intrigued by thunder and lightning!

Why? Because few things in nature are better at combining incredible beauty with feelings of danger and fear.

Some folks think I’m off my rocker when I tell them I enjoy sitting on my porch and taking in the “show” of a thunderstorm that’s playing out in real time before my very eyes.  [Read more…]

The Terminator: The ‘line’ where day meets night

Posted on July 21, 2022

As the earth spins on its axis, half of the planet’s surface is always facing the sun (day) while the other half is dark (night).

This line where day and night meet is called the terminator, and it’s quite interesting indeed.

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Guess what? The ‘twinkling’ stars you see in the night sky aren’t really twinkling at all.

Posted on July 15, 2022

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to view the night sky out in country where there’s no light pollution you probably noticed how the stars seemed to be twinkling.

The thousands of twinkling stars that shine down from the heavens have been fascinating and mesmerizing us humans all throughout our long history.

But there’s a strange truth about those twinkling stars: They don’t really twinkle at all.

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Check out this incredible time-lapse video of the night sky and the Milky Way

Posted on July 10, 2022

Have you ever sat and contemplated the vastness of the universe?

As you well know, we earthlings inhabit a single planet that orbits a single star.

But consider this…

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