Most spectacular Solar eruption (video)
The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7, 2011. The large
Lightning in Grimsvötn volcano
Lightning strikes in the erupting Grímsvötn volcano. The picture was taken from Orvar Atli Thorgeirsson, from the area of Sprengisandur, in the central highlands of
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska
In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a stream carves a canyon through rock formed during the 1912 eruption of nearby Novarupta Volcano. Photograph M.
Monster prominence erupts from the Sun (video)
The Sun has put on yet another spectacular light show with a massive solar flare captured in high definition by NASA’s space based Solar Dynamics
Japan’s Mount Kirishima volcano biggest eruption in 50 years
A one-mile cordon has been established around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across southern Japan and sending smoke billowing
Calderas of Russian Onekotan Island
Snow cover highlights the calderas and volcanic cones that form the northern and southern ends of Onekotan Island, part of the Russian Federation in the
What is really going on with volcanoes? What’s beneath Yellowstone?
The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004. Erupt for the first time in 600,000 years,
Yesterday’s Aetna Eruption (video)
It’s been nearly 350 years since Mt. Etna blew its top in a major way. Until yesterday, when Europe’s largest active volcano spewed hot lava
