{"id":33157,"date":"2025-03-21T06:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33157"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:38:27","slug":"cosmic-ray-showers-cause-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33157","title":{"rendered":"COSMIC RAY SHOWERS CAUSE LIGHTNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Space Weather News for March 20, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=ce935191bb&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/spaceweather.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=200629a658&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>COSMIC RAY SHOWERS CAUSE LIGHTNING:<\/strong>\u00a0 A new study by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory links lightning to antimatter in cosmic ray showers. This could solve a centuries-old mystery of what causes electrical outbursts in thunderstorms. Full story @ <a href=\"https:\/\/Spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=46f789b6b4&amp;e=de6f94dc30\">Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lightning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-33158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lightning-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lightning-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Lightning.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Above:<\/strong> 3D images of lightning over New Mexico. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory used these data to link lightning to cosmic rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Weather News for March 20, 2025 https:\/\/spaceweather.com https:\/\/www.spaceweatheralerts.com COSMIC RAY SHOWERS CAUSE LIGHTNING:\u00a0 A new study by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory links lightning to antimatter in cosmic ray showers. This could solve a centuries-old mystery of what causes electrical outbursts in thunderstorms. Full story @ Spaceweather.com Above: 3D images of lightning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COSMIC RAY SHOWERS CAUSE LIGHTNING<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33159,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33157\/revisions\/33159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}