Etna and Stromboli are a twosome of Italian volcanoes currently guggle away with glowing red lava flows and fingers of roll of tobacco . AstronautsReid Wiseman and Alex Gerstcooperated for a bit of picture taking teamwork to capture both volcano in a duo of photograph cross dark and daytime .

Admittedly , the lineup is n’t exactly perfect — the photos are at just lightly different scales so the bounds between sea and demesne jump while flipping between photographs . Still , it ’s good enough to use the smoke in the daylight to identify where to squinch for shine lava in the nighttime photograph .

Plus , the astronauts were just ordinate in their jubilant tweets that I could almost learn the epic microgravity high - five when they celebrated their success .

Etnaand#Strombolierupting by day.@astro_alextook the exact same shot at night , with lava.#teamworkpic.twitter.com / pPA2YFwPIo

— Reid Wiseman ( @astro_reid)August 14 , 2014

you could see the red glowing lava of 2 vent on this photo ! Spot them on@astro_reid ’s day photo!#teamworkpic.twitter.com / Kl9h2KVkiE

— Alexander Gerst ( @Astro_Alex)August 14 , 2014

In other eruption news , rumour is thata Modern unpronounceable volcano in Iceland , Bárðarbunga , is worth watching on thenew webcaminstalled Sunday .

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