Incredible images show a Russian Soyuz rocket being hit with a bolt of lightning 10 seconds into its flight.. The lightning bolt hit the rocket on its nose fairing, as well as its third-stage ...

In fact, roughly 1.4 billion bolts of lightning strike the ground every year, roughly 3 million a day. That’s around 44 bolts per second, according to the U.K Met Office .

Photographer Mike Olbinski, from Arizona, America, spends every summer storm chasing to capture these stunning pictures of lightning bolts descending through the sky.

Did you know? Energy from a lightning channel heats the air briefly to around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, much hotter than the ...