Prismatic colors formed above the volcano 🌋🌈 Sunlight bends through icy cloud layers high in the atmosphere, spreading into soft bands of color that appear stretched across the plume. The eruption column rises rapidly and cools at higher altitudes, giving tiny ice crystals the right angles to refract and separate the light. It looks unreal, but it’s a combination of volcanic updrafts, high-altitude moisture, and atmospheric optics aligning for a few brief moments. | AstroNature

Since January 1, 2025, 70 volcanic eruptions have been recorded worldwide — from explosive ash columns to relentless lava flows, both on land and beneath the oceans. Tracked by the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, this level of activity is above average, with many eruptions concentrated along the Pacific Ring of Fire, but also appearing in Iceland, the Mediterranean, Africa, and remote island chains. Some eruptions made headlines. Many didn’t. All of them are part of Earth relea

Like clockwork, this volcano erupts almost every hour. Learn more: http://on.natgeo.com/2l4GuVw | National Geographic