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NASA | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter

By NASA GoddardFrom boclips.com
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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.

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