A lightning storm has been raging on Saturn since mid-January, making the tempest the longest-lasting storm ever detected in our solar system, astronomers announced today. The lightning flashes are 10,000 times stronger than lightning flashes on Earth, research team member Georg Fischer, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, said via email. And the storm itself is much bigger—around 1,850 miles (3,000 kilometers) across—than Earth's storms. "Saturn is just very vigorous when you get a storm." (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)
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