Beautiful photo of a volcanic eruption

Volcano Tungurahua in Ecuador erupts about every 90 years—it's a schedule the mountain has kept for 1300 years. This photo was taken by Patrick Taschler in 2006. (Via Astronomy Photo of the Day and Alexandra Witze)

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Amazing how this rock spawned life, eventually intelligent life, before it even had the time to cool down all the way.
caseyd

wonderful photograph, thanks for sharing
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snarkattack

Repost! This is just so lazy BoingBoing.Venus is travelling through the Seven Sisters constellation, seen to the left of the volcano, and will be exiting the constellation tonight.
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Eric Klemetti runs a fun and informative volcano blog at Wired called Eruptions:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/eruptions
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Patrick log, day 2q3l4 time z74;!3. Nearing approximated estimate of probable eruption. Standing by. Standing by. Standing by. Holy mother there she goes, whiz click click whiz click.

Thanks for having an adventurous life. Awesome pics,.
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AMAZING!!! What a great shot.