17. Is there any static electricity in space? What about electrical storms? Is there any lightning in space? (A K2S Question)

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There is static electricity. It comes from rubbing certain things together. So in space, we could get charged up with static electricity. There are electrical storms that come indirectly from the Sun, called solar storms. They are different than the normal type of storms we are used to on Earth. There is no lightning in space because lightning comes from charges in clouds, and clouds come from air, and there is no air in space.

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