This Photographer Captures a Natural Phenomenon That You Can't Even Imagine Happening

German photographer, videographer, and author, Marc Szeglat, is a passionate volcano expert, and he's been studying them devoutly for the past  20 years, traveling the world, filming eruptions from distances that would make an ordinary person soil themselves.

Recently, Marc was capturing footage an extremely active volcano, Sakurajima, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, when he caught one of the rarest natural phenomenons on film: plume cloud lightning activity.

Now formally known as "dirty thunderstorms," these strange bursts of electricity use to be one of the most scientifically unexplained quandaries of the 21st century. Upon further research though, scientists concluded the charges are large static reactions that occur due to super-heated or charged particles colliding at extreme frequencies.