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Lightning
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In 2018, a momentous lightning bolt [blank] above a network of radio telescopes in the Netherlands. The telescope's detailed recordings, which were processed only recently, [blank] something no one has seen before: lightning actually starting up inside a thundercloud. Researchers used the observations to settle a long-standing debate about what [blank] lightning, the first step in the mysterious process by which bolts arise, grow and propagate to the ground.
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In 2018, a momentous lightning bolt flashed above a network of radio telescopes in the Netherlands. The telescope's detailed recordings, which were processed only recently, reveal something no one has seen before: lightning actually starting up inside a thundercloud. Researchers used the observations to settle a long-standing debate about what triggers lightning, the first step in the mysterious process by which bolts arise, grow and propagate to the ground.
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