Stumbled on this great site:

[Andre]

Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

[Andre]

APOD: 2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano

Check this photo, really worthwhile of the volcanic eruption above the ice with fork lightening.

[mattboxingfan]

APOD: 2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano

Check this photo, really worthwhile of the volcanic eruption above the ice with fork lightening.

That is awesome!

[Andre]

APOD: 2010 April 19 - Ash and Lightning Above an Icelandic Volcano

Check this photo, really worthwhile of the volcanic eruption above the ice with fork lightening.

That is awesome!

I've been checking a few shots of it and the lightening forms in the clouds of dust from the volcano it doesnt appear to be from the surrounding weather pattern!

I didnt know that until I saw I pic of blue skies around it and lightening ripping out the sides of the dust down onto the mountain.

Wonder how that works?


I know there is power up in the air once you get to a certain height (Nicolia Tessla tapped into it using a tower) but I didint realize there was that much. Looks as if the amount of earth in the air acts an earth for the spark same as the moisture does in a storm cloud.

[Andre]

God theres some great shots if you go through their archives..


APOD: 2010 February 25 - Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 891

APOD: 2009 November 7 - Stickney Crater

APOD: 2010 February 14 - Field of Rosette

APOD: 2008 January 29 - West Valley Panorama from the Spirit Rover on Mars

APOD: 2008 March 12 - Star Forming Region LH 95


APOD: 2008 April 20 - Spiral Galaxies in Collision

[Andre]

Insanely deep fractal zoom

The power of this zoom way surpasses, if you could enlarge a fractal to the size of the Earth!

Skip the middle section once you get you gist of the depth you are looking into ; the ending is quite something, like dropping a stone into a pond.