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Lightning over the Volcano of Water

By |2025-07-27T13:44:25-04:00July 27th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms. The rapid electrical discharges [...]

Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky

By |2024-07-17T09:09:10-04:00July 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day When Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, swings his blacksmith's hammer, the sky is lit on fire. A recent eruption of Chile's Villarrica volcano shows the delicate interplay between this fire -- actually glowing steam and ash from melted rock -- and the light from distant stars in our Milky [...]

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