Two of nature's most spectacular forces produced an incredible brew in the 

skies of Chile as a volcanic eruption met a lightning storm. Tons of dust 

and ash from the eruption of the Chaitïn volcano poured into the night sky &

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just as an  electric storm passed overhead. The resulting collision created a

spectacular sight as lightning flickered around the dust cloud amid the 

orange glow of the volcano.

The eruption was all the more spectacular because the Chaitïn volcano,800 

miles  (1,290km)south of Santiago, has been dormant for hundreds - if not thousands - 

of years. The Patagonian volcano began erupting on Fr iday and the 12-mile-high plume 

has left vast tracts of land coated with a layer of ash