From Beneath the Earth to Above the Sky

Regular readers know that when it comes to science, my two loves are astronomy and geology. That love is multiplied when they come together. ... like in the photo above, a six-panel mosaic taken by master photographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo (you can purchase a print, too). It shows the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea just days ago, when it was spewing an enormous plume of noxious sulfury gas and water vapor into the sky. It looks like an explosive eruption, but that's an illusion! You're actually seein...