→ Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?

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Steph Yun, tells us about how painters in the past almost never painted lightning accurately in this fascinating story for the New York Times.

Paintings by artists over centuries have consistently underestimated the number of root-like veins in a lightning strike, researchers found.

Interesting!

Examples from the story, painting and real.


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