The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.
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The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.
Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018. (view fullscreen)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt
Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets.
Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue
This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.
The camera was equipped with a pan-and-tilt mechanism and was remotely controlled from Earth by flight controller Ed Fendell, who had to begin slewing the camera early to account for the roughly 1.3-second signal delay.
The footage was recorded using the television camera mounted on the lunar rover, which had been left behind on the Moon’s surface and parked in a pre-planned location.
Apollo 17 lifts off from the Moon on December 14, 1972, the last time humans visited the lunar surface and traveled beyond Earth's orbit.
A thousand times brighter than a typical nova, a kilonova occurs when two neutron stars, or a neutron star and a black hole, collide.
Further reading: www.livescience.com/kilonovas-ra...
The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.
A giant deep-sea isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) filmed by the ROV on Okeanos Explorer at a depth of 810m (2,660 feet). This huge underwater 'pill bug' measures nearly 30cm (almost 1 foot), as indicated by the ROV's red laser dots, spaced 10cm apart.
Credit: NOAA
Listen to the world's loudest bird, the Amazon's white bellbird. It has a call that peaks at 125.4 decibels, louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.🔊
Credit: Anselmo d'Affonseca
Dwarf mongoose plays dead for hornbill.
Credit: WildEarth
Hand warmers contain a special sodium acetate solution that gives off heat when you press a metal disc, triggering the liquid to turn into crystals. They can be reused by boiling them in water to dissolve the crystals back into the liquid.
Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A meteor streaking across a star-filled night sky above a snow-capped mountain, with the Milky Way glowing and grassy fields in the foreground.
A meteor, the Milky Way and Mount Fuji captured by photographer Hayata Suzuki.
These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt.
Credit: BBC
Commander Dave Scott of Apollo 15 validates Galileo's theory on the Moon by dropping a hammer and a feather, proving that objects fall at the same speed, independent of their mass.
An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.
Credit: Usherwood et al.
Known locally as a "Levanter cloud" this unique cloud type forms when winds push moist air up over a hill or mountain, causing the moisture to condense and form a cloud.
Further reading: www.livescience.com/levanter-clo...
Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
Credit: Met Office Gibraltar
Time-lapse created from images courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center (ISS054-E-43780-45314 eol.jsc.nasa.gov).
Earth is beautiful.
The source for the orbital image and more details can be found here: www.uahirise.org/ESP_069031_1...
Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in 1973.
The speed of light visualized on a world map.
Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue
A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.
Credit: Roger P Hangarter
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.
Credit: NASA Goddard
A 360º view from the surface of Mars captured by Perseverance Rover.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
