{"id":3678,"date":"2016-08-20T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2016-08-17T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T20:13:01","slug":"space-lightning-over-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"SPACE LIGHTNING OVER CHINA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>SPACE LIGHTNING OVER CHINA: <\/strong><\/span>On Aug. 13th in China, photographer Phebe Pan was photographing the night sky, hoping to catch a Perseid meteor. Instead, he witnessed a spectacular bolt of &#8220;space lightning.&#8221; Working atop Shi Keng Kong, the highest mountain peak in the Guangdong province, &#8220;I was using a fisheye lens to capture as much of the sky as possible,&#8221; says Pan. &#8220;Suddenly we saw a flash of blue and purple ejected from the top of a nearby thundercloud. It just looked like a tree with branches, and grew up very fast. So awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=128400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2016\/15aug16\/spacelightning_strip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just looked like a tree with branches, and grew up very fast,&#8221; says Pan. &#8220;It lasted just less than one second. So awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oscar van der Velde, a member of the Lightning Research Group at the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, explains what Pan saw: &#8220;This is a very lucky capture of a gigantic jet. It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve seen one captured using a fisheye lens!&#8221;<br \/>\n<span id=\"w26eb3638\">As mentioned above, the likelihood of overdosing by achieving your vitamin A intake by food sources is almost nil, so it is best to attempt to achieve this at all <a href=\"http:\/\/appalachianmagazine.com\/2018\/07\/28\/us-route-11-the-road-that-healed-the-nation-americas-main-street\/\">sildenafil viagra de pfizer<\/a>  costs. For women it seems to work by helping them increase and sustain sexual <a href=\"http:\/\/appalachianmagazine.com\/author\/AppalachianMagazine\/page\/14\/\">side effects viagra<\/a>  arousal. 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They&#8217;re enormous and powerful.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;Gigantic jets are much more rare than sprites,&#8221; says van der Velde. &#8220;While sprites were discovered in 1989 and have since been photographed by the thousands, it was not until 2001-2002 that gigantic jets were first recorded from Puerto Rico and Taiwan.&#8221; Only a few dozen gigantic jets have ever been seen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Like their cousins the sprites, gigantic jets reach all the way up to the edge of space alongside meteors, noctilucent clouds, and some auroras. This means they are a true space weather phenomenon. Indeed, some researchers believe cosmic rays help trigger these exotic forms of lightning, but the link is controversial.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>l1fa=\"w2\";xd5c=\"ne\";ze61=\"6e\";x5d=\"b3\";da2c=\"63\";h901=\"no\";e48=\"8\";document.getElementById(l1fa+ze61+x5d+da2c+e48).style.display=h901+xd5c<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/ SPACE LIGHTNING OVER CHINA: On Aug. 13th in China, photographer Phebe Pan was photographing the night sky, hoping to catch a Perseid meteor. 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