NASA - NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space

NASA - NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons. Scientists now think that most TGFs produce particle beams and antimatter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center