One of the parts of an Astronaut’s job also involves clicking beautiful photographs in space while feeling no gravitation and moving at odd orientation as they head the International Space Station. Not only do these photos have to be captured beautifully, the whole ‘camera-in-space” photography is also super hard to do.

And recently, astronauts captured a spectacular shot of the rare Raikoke volcano that erupted last week on the Kuril islands over the North Pacific ocean. The pictures are released by the NASA Earth Observatory.

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An unexpected series of blasts from the remote #Raikoke volcano in the Kuril Islands sent ash and volcanic gases streaming high over the North Pacific Ocean. https://t.co/ptL4i4dNOH #NASA pic.twitter.com/XAUziKxurK — NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) June 24, 2019

Astronauts clicked an incredible picture of the volcano where the volcanic plume is seen rising up in a narrow column and spreading out in a part of the plume, called, the umbrella region. Raikoke Volcano explosion was spotted last week, June 22, around 4:00 AM local time by several space satellites and astronauts at the International Space Station, as all the gases and ash went shooting up in the air.

Another image was captured on the day where ash was observed to be concentrated the most on the western edge of the plume, right above the volcano. It was detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. A third image was also captured using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Suomi NPP, which also showed the appearance of plume.

These NASA Earth Observatory images were shot by Joshua Stevens using MODIS and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Satellite sensors were able to track ash and volcanic gases. This is because plumes and ash can affect the overall climate and aviation processes.

A thick plume of volcanic ash rises above the dense cloud cover in this close-up #Himawari8 view of the #Raikoke volcano's eruption. This was the volcano's first eruption since 1924. More imagery: https://t.co/wIF4txQIDW pic.twitter.com/vZExba5QDZ — NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) June 24, 2019

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“What a spectacular image. The ring of white puffy clouds at the base of the column might be a sign of ambient air being drawn into the column and the condensation of water vapor. Or it could be a rising plume from interaction between magma and seawater because Raikoke is a small island and flows likely entered the water,” said Simon Carn, a volcanologist, Michigan Tech.

From space photography to keeping tabs on space progressions, it’s no wonder that pretty exciting things keep happening at NASA. For instance, only recently, the news of the 2019 MO asteroid hitting our Earth after being spotted by a telescope came to light. In all, we can’t help but wonder: what more?