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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2024 July 17   
      
                        Villarrica Volcano Against the Sky   
        Video Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Mu+#oz; Text: Natalia Lewandowska   
                                   (SUNY Oswego)   
      
      Explanation: When Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, swings his   
      blacksmith's hammer, the sky is lit on fire. A recent eruption of   
      Chile's Villarrica volcano shows the delicate interplay between this   
      fire -- actually glowing steam and ash from melted rock -- and the   
      light from distant stars in our Milky Way galaxy and the Magellanic   
      Clouds galaxies. In the featured timelapse video, the Earth rotates   
      under the stars as Villarrica erupts. With about 1350 volcanoes, our   
      planet Earth rivals Jupiter's moon Io as the most geologically active   
      place in the Solar System. While both have magnificent beauty, the   
      reasons for the existence of volcanoes on both worlds are different.   
      Earth's volcanoes typically occur between slowly shifting outer shell   
      plates, while Io's volcanoes are caused by gravitational flexing   
      resulting from Jupiter's tidal gravitational pull.   
      
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