(CNN) Sometimes the most destructive forces on Earth create the most beauty.

That comes to mind if you've seen satellite loops of Hurricane Dorian put up on social media by Dakota Smith, a meteorologist and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Smith has been posting the high resolution images for the past day or so and boy, are they a thing of beauty.

You can see the ferocious, monster storm churning away in the Caribbean, with fluffy white cloud tops billowing all about. And then, some surprises: flashes of brightness from lightning strikes within the hurricane.

Yes, that's really lightning

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