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Under the glacier Eyjafjallajokull in southern Iceland, after the eruption of a volcano which has been silent for nearly two centuries, the small-scale seismic activities are continued, scientists worry that the eruption of Katla volcano may be triggered like before. The Katla is the main volcano in Iceland, once the eruption happens, it will impact [...]

February 19, photographer Kerstin Langenberger took the photo of Northern Lights with plenilune in Iceland. These beautiful pictures of aurora seem to be taken during the day. But in fact, that blue sky was because the full moon was shining brightly. 28-year-old Kerstin Langenberger is German, but currently living in Iceland. She spent 300 hours [...]

Driving on these roads can’t make any mistakes; a small mistake may lead to serious result, no kidding! Stelvio Pass Road Trollstigen, Italy This zigzag mountains road is 1.7 km above sea level, a total of 48 dangerous curves.    Sichuan-Tibet Highway, China Geologists call it "the world’s most dangerous road." It’s 2,412km long and [...]

Local time on March 11, the Mexican resort of Acapulco, a large number of shoals turned up near the beach, including sardines, anchovies, perches and mackerels, and so on. Local fishermen thought that this spectacle might be caused by the giant tsunami triggered by 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan. The U.S. Geological Survey geologist opines [...]

February 25, 2011，media reported, it is generally believed that people have to go to the freezing Icelandic tundra or to remote Canada to appreciate the real northern lights. Actually this is not so, 62-year-old British photographer Jim Henderson in the past two decades has been shooting the aurora in the United Kingdom. He recorded more [...]

These spectacular pictures were taken by long exposure. As one of Mount Kirishima the volcano erupted and continually sent enormous ash and rocks into the sky then fell across southern Japan.         

Local time on February 16, Hebei Province, China, the folk artists splashed molten iron to the ancient city wall. This is a local folklore festival ceremony with long history. During the annual Lantern Festival, folk artists splashed the molten iron to the ancient walls that become thousands of dazzling sparks. The activity expresses a wish [...]

Photographer shot the photos of spectacular and powerful eruptions of Kizimen volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula. Kizimen volcano is one of the active volcanoes in Kamchatka and located in Shchapina graben, on the southeastern edge of the Central Kamchatka. It’s a potential risk of extensive and catastrophic eruption. Next Pages

These are not original images but the photographs edited by astronomical photographers, the original materials are from the large professional telescopes & high-resolution cameras. Most of the original materials selected by participants are from the European Southern Observatory’s large professional telescopes, visible and infrared survey telescopes (VISTA), APEX submillimeter telescopes and the Atacama Large Millimeter [...]

Amateur photographer Mikhail Baevsky in Ukraine, Mikhail Baevsky Mountain shoot amazing photos of rainbow, there appeared a mysterious figure in the middle of the rainbow.  

The Shinmoedake volcano is at southern Japan between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, it continuously erupted over the past few days, the ash and smoke spewed out by the volcano is about 2,000 meters, around the city is covered with a thick volcanic ash. Currently, local traffic is chaotic and the crop is damaged, all aspects [...]