A bolt of lightning can heat up to 50,000 °F in less than a second, helping to produce a sound we know as thunder. The temperature is around five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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NASA strives to understand the universe, whether that be the stars above us or Earth around us. One way NASA focuses on the ...