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This Drone Footage of an Erupting Volcano Is Absolutely Nuts

Put your face close to your screen and hit play. This short video, uploaded by YouTuber Shaun O’Callaghan, was shot from a DJI Phantom quad-copter as Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu erupted. The view is absolutely stunning, but the remarkable thing about this footage is that the copter survived the heat, smoke, debris,…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 12

Does The Scream depict a real-life volcano explosion?

The explosion from the Krakatau volcano in 1883 was so strong that it unleashed a 130-foot tsunami and turned the skies red for months. But is it also responsible for this famous painting by Edvard Munch? Munch painted The Scream in 1893, ten years after the volcano erupted in Indonesia. Researchers in Sky & Telescope…

io9 Ria Misra Feb 24

Stunning photos of colossal lightning in massive volcano eruption

You don’t need to travel into a brown dwarf star’s atmosphere or Saturn’s hexagon to see colossal lightning. Just look at these photographs taken by Francisco Negroni of the eruption of the complex volcano Cordón Caulle, in Chile. He told me that, while scary, there was no immediate danger: The first photos, the one with…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Jan 15

Thanks to the eruption of Mount Etna, it’s been raining rocks in Sicily

Fortunately, the recent eruption of Mount Etna didn’t force anyone to evacuate their homes, but in this video, you can watch the volcanic ash and rocks raining down on Sicily. [via Geekosystem]

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 24

The Most Amazing Solar Eruption Ever Recorded Is Even More Terrifying In Video

Holy Jesuspants. The image was already astonishing but this video made my head spin. Watching this magnificent violence from every angle is a good way to realize how lucky we are to be alive, precisely because of that titanic ball of fire in the sky. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-most-astonishing-solar-eruption-ive-ever-se-5940625 The video of this “magnificent CME”—as NASA calls it—was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 6

This Is the Most Astonishing Solar Eruption I’ve Ever Seen

I don’t know if it’s the most amazing view of a solar eruption ever recorded, but it probably is. When our friends at NASA Goddard sent us this image of the latest solar eruption today, we just couldn’t believe how astonishing and ominous it looked. So astonishing and special that NASA titled their image “Magnificent…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 5

Supervolcanoes can erupt with pretty much zero warning

A single volcanic eruption wiping out life on entire continents isn’t exactly a cheery thought, but at least we had the mild comfort that it would take as much as 200,000 years for one to erupt. Yeah, about that… There’s only a handful of known supervolcanoes capable of destruction on near-planetary levels – the one…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 3

Something Has Exploded In a Spectacular Fashion On Uranus

Quit snickering! Something on Uranus has erupted and now scientists are all in a tizzy about what and why it might be. The news is exciting for a number of reasons. The simplest being we know very little about Uranus, mostly due to its incredible distance form Earth and because it’s, well, frankly one of…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus Oct 30

What causes supervolcanoes to erupt?

Supervolcano eruptions are the most devastating natural disasters on the planet, unleashing destruction that can level entire continents and kick off new ice ages. We’ve long struggled to understand what causes these unimaginable eruptions… but now, there might be an answer. There are only a handful of known supervolcanos, with the most famous probably being…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 12

The first successful prediction of an undersea volcano eruption

The Axial Seamount is an undersea volcano located 250 miles off the Oregon coast. It’s one of the most active underwater volcanoes in the world, and it’s just started erupting. For the first time ever, scientists saw that eruption coming. Could their technique help give early warning to people living in regions where volcanoes might…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 9

Mega Comet In Our Solar System Grows Larger Than The Sun

The relatively benign Comet Holmes, besides having a cool, superfly name, erupted a few weeks ago in a spectacular stellar event which has caused the scientific community to go “oooh” and “aaah.” Since then, it’s been growing steadily larger, and now dwarfs even our own Sun in sheer size. Do you need to stock up…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 16

This Drone Footage of an Erupting Volcano Is Absolutely Nuts

Does The Scream depict a real-life volcano explosion?

Stunning photos of colossal lightning in massive volcano eruption

Thanks to the eruption of Mount Etna, it’s been raining rocks in Sicily

The Most Amazing Solar Eruption Ever Recorded Is Even More Terrifying In Video

This Is the Most Astonishing Solar Eruption I’ve Ever Seen

Supervolcanoes can erupt with pretty much zero warning

Something Has Exploded In a Spectacular Fashion On Uranus

What causes supervolcanoes to erupt?

The first successful prediction of an undersea volcano eruption

Mega Comet In Our Solar System Grows Larger Than The Sun

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