Hasta La Gadget!

It looks like the above. Scientists created artificial lightning via rockets and wire, so they could shoot the thing with their fancy new camera–which, for the record, can snap photos at a speedy one-sixth the speed of light (“Something moving this fast would go from the Earth to the moon in less than ten seconds,” says a scientist).

Among the revelations of the super-expensive/very heavy camera is the fact that the bolt contains a bunch of x-rays at the tip, with few located in the trail of the lightning.

Neat. Just don’t try this at home–at least not with some serious cash on-hand.
“You can’t just go buy a camera and point it at lightning,” said the aforementioned scientist. “We had to make it.”