Reflection in the sky of volcanic eruption in Italy is captured by NASA

NASA shared a photo last Monday (24) in which lights reflected by the lava of a volcano paint the sky of Mount Etna, in Italy, red.

“Light pillars are typically caused by the sun’s rays and appear as a bright column extending above the rising or setting Sun,” the agency described in its Astronomy Picture of the Day project.

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The recording made at the beginning of February shows a red beam of light taking over the sky during a morning in Italy.

According to NASA, the phenomenon happened because cold temperatures above the lava flow formed ice crystals on the volcano, causing red light to be reflected into the sky.

In the Astronomy Picture of the Day project, the US agency selects one image each day to portray an extraordinary scene related to space — such as a SpaceX rocket forming a “giant space fish” in the sky and the comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) crossing the sky and disappearing behind a hill. (CNN Brazil)