At first I thought "wow, they're so smooth" but then realized that the dynamics must be so incredibly fast that the fuzzy smoothness is really just motion blur. Amazing though....
The article said that they form as ionized balls that can move at ten percent of the speed of light. That's almost 30 million miles an hour! I don't know what to say, except that nature is f'ing amazing!
And I'd love to know what those downward branching structures are...
And I'd love to know what those downward branching structures are...