Trees glow during storms — scientists finally capture it on film

Trees glow during storms — scientists finally capture it on film

Quick thinking and flexibility allowed a group of Penn State researchers to capture lightning in a bottle…or something close to that. The team revealed how it documented the weather phenomenon of corona discharges in a study published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal. Corona discharges are an optical phenomenon wherein the area right above trees glows with ultraviolet light during thunderstorms. Though for 70 years scientists speculat…