Two Pics

Here are two amazing pics from opposite ends of the world, neither of which are mine (the pics or the ends of the world):

Firstly a clever composite image of the recent total solar eclipse taken in Svalbard by Thanakrit Santikunaporn (not even joking).

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Here’s a quick explanation of what was done and what it saw. Amazing.

And then this of the eruption of Calbuco, everyone’s favourite Chilean volcano, from Marcelo Utreras:

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Here are some details (and more, less good, photos) about that. Your carbon footprint offsetting for the next two hundred years is now rendered utterly pointless, right there.

But on a more positive note: well done, great photo takers. We are impressed.

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