The Large Magellanic Cloud is a petite galaxy visible with the unaided eye – all year round – for those in the Southern Hemisphere. This small neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way is somewhere between spiral and irregular in shape. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/the-large-magellanic-cloud…
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Images reveal where lava broke through the wall of a Martian crater and began filling it up
At a fundamental level, Mars is a volcanic planet. Its surface is home to the solar system’s largest extinct volcano, Olympus Mons, and another trio of well-known volcanoes at Tharsis Montes. And those are just the highlights: there are many other volcanoes on the surface. Though that volcanic activity ceased long ago, the planet’s surface tells the tale of a world…
Chain of Alaskan islands might really be one monster volcano
Six volcanic islands in the Aleutian archipelago may be linked together in one massive caldera hiding underwater. Source: https://www.livescience.com/small-islands-one-big-volcano.html
Scientists discover exotic new mineral forged in the furnace of a Russian volcano
Volcanoes rank among the most destructive and awe-inspiring phenomena on the planet. But these fiery fissures do much more than just destroy. Source: https://www.livescience.com/exotic-mineral-discovered-in-russian-volcano.html
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have geysers? If so, what’s their source?
If watery plumes do burst from Europa’s surface, they might originate not in the moon’s underground ocean, but instead in pockets of brine trapped in the moon’s crust. If that’s so, it could be a source of frustration for those who want to probe Europa’s ocean for possible life. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/jupiter-moon-europa-plumes-salty-water-in-crust…
Huge eruption of Italian volcano sends ash hundreds of feet into the air
An explosion on the slopes of Stromboli sent pyroclastic flow down the Italian volcano on Monday (Nov. 16). Source: https://www.livescience.com/stromboli-eruption-huge-pyroclastic-flow.html
How Jupiter’s moon Io gets its hellish atmosphere
Hot, active volcanoes produce almost half of Jupiter’s moon Io’s sulfur atmosphere, according to new observations using the ALMA telescope. The rest comes from cold sulfur deposits that freeze on the surface, then sublimate in sunlight. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/io-sulfur-volcanoes-hot-so2-cold-so2…
Drones are flying straight into volcanoes, for life-saving science
Researchers have designed specially-adapted drones to fly straight into volcanoes and help gather data from an active volcano in Papua New Guinea. Source: https://www.livescience.com/drones-flying-into-active-volcanoes.html
Venusian Volcano Imagined
What would an erupting volcano on Venus look like? Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Is Iceland’s most active volcano about to erupt?
The ice-covered Grímsvötn volcano produced an unusually large and powerful eruption in 2011. Now, says this volcanologist, there are clear signs that Grímsvötn is getting ready to erupt again. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/grimsvotn-iceland-volcano-about-to-erupt…