Strange upward lightning shoots out X-rays as it rises to the clouds

Lightning can shoot upwards from tall towers – and researchers now know that it produces X-rays on the very starting of its ascent into the clouds.

Throughout a thunderstorm, completely different components of a cloud turn out to be positively and negatively charged. This separation of cost throughout the cloud results in a dramatic electrical discharge that manifests as a column of sizzling ionised gasoline and electrons, or plasma, reaching for the bottom: a lightning strike.

However when charged-up clouds hover over a tall construction made …