As if spewing molton lava wasn't injury enough, volcanoes can also generate lightning strikes. In this apocalyptic image taken by Martin Rietze, we see Sakurajima Volcano doing just that — and in extremely vivid detail.

Check out this spectacular and incredibly vivid long exposure capture by fine art photographer Amery Carlson. It's a photograph of a lightning storm taken off the coast of Ventura, California (what is officially the city of San Buenaventura).

You've noticed that oil and water always separate out in a container, with water staying on the bottom and oil floating along the surface. What does it take to make the water rise up? This experiment shows that it takes a lot of charge, which resolves into lightning!

Damn. Just... damn. If you've never been to Joshua Tree National Park or the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California, this jaw-dropping timelapse by filmmaker Henry Jun Wah Lee may be the only incentive you need to schedule a visit.

We've known it was possible for quite some time now — but now there's photographic proof. You can use a laser beam to aim a lightning bolt at a target, with devastating results.

In this map, created using NASA satellite data, you can see in lurid detail where lightning struck Earth the most between 1995-2002. This historical information can give scientists clues about where it's likely to strike again. And with tornado, monsoon, and hurricane seasons getting underway, you too might want to…

Holy crap, this is incredible. Massive thunderstorms are rare in California's Bay Area. Rarer, still, are epic lightning displays like the one witnessed by area residents last night (meteorologists say last night's storm dished out a record-shattering 750 strikes).

Lichtenberg figures (sometimes called lightning trees) sometimes occur when an electrical charge is introduced to an insulating material, representing the branching electrical discharges. They can occur in resin, glass, grassy fields, and, if you're unlucky enough to be struck by lightning, human skin.

Residents of Venezuela have been treated to a light show that has been going on for thousands of years. One spot on the Catatumbo River gets, regularly, forty thousand bolts every night. The lightning has helped sailors navigate, foiled attacks on the nearby countryside, and is actually responsible for Venezuelan…

The Earth pulses with a special kind of resonant wave. The Schumann Resonance has long been dubbed 'the Earth's heartbeat,' and it has only been spotted from below. Recently, though, satellites have found signs of this electromagnetic heartbeat leaking up into space.