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Cosmic thunder

in the far reaches of space, cosmic thunderstorms are generating windspeeds of more than 965 kilometres per second and temperatures hotter than the Sun, report scientists.

Massive clusters of galaxies are colliding at supersonic speed millions of light years away, creating intense shock and violent turbulence. However,there will be no tangible effects on the Earth as the storms are occuring far away. But one of these galgatic weather systems is likely to brush the planet. The "local cluster' containing the Milky way is being sucked towards the larger Virgo cluster