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Diego Ortega

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🛰️🪐Space engineer 📷🦕🐦Amateur photographer, paleoartist and naturalist Posts in 🇪🇸,🇬🇧 🌐Thionville, 🇫🇷

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Me at the airport

Me at the airport

Outside view of Schiphol airport

Outside view of Schiphol airport

Fish tank at the airport

Fish tank at the airport

Going on an adventure! Some photos at Schiphol airport✈️

09.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Papiliomaris kluessendorfae, first reported in 1985 as the Waukesha "Butterfly Animal", was recently described as a strange bivalved arthropod with three pairs of large, feathery appendages. Some reports indicate it could reach up to 20cm wide.

08.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 94    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 1
Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome reflecting orange and golden sunset light atop its rocky mountain site.

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome reflecting orange and golden sunset light atop its rocky mountain site.

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome atop its rocky mountain site, with the golden glow of sunset over the rolling peaks in the distance.

Large boot-shaped observatory with a massive telescope dome atop its rocky mountain site, with the golden glow of sunset over the rolling peaks in the distance.

Large boot-shaped observatory on a rocky mountain peak during a vibrant sunset with layered mountain ranges in the background.

Large boot-shaped observatory on a rocky mountain peak during a vibrant sunset with layered mountain ranges in the background.

Drone shot of a massive teal telescope within an observatory's dome with a vertical opening, surrounded by winding mountain roads and dry terrain.

Drone shot of a massive teal telescope within an observatory's dome with a vertical opening, surrounded by winding mountain roads and dry terrain.

Golden hour hits different above 2600 meters. ✨🌅

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory basks in that sunset ✨glow✨ at its site on Cerro Pachón. And with over 300 clear nights on average per year here, that's a lot of sunset basking we get to do! 🔭🧪

08.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 108    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1
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Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

08.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 1005    🔁 117    💬 27    📌 3
Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci

Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

08.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 96    🔁 41    💬 2    📌 4

Day 7 #Invertober2025 - Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 🐌

SNAIL. BYE.

#SciArt #invertebrates

07.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 166    🔁 55    💬 11    📌 1
Skeleton, muscles, and surface of a red eared slider

Skeleton, muscles, and surface of a red eared slider

Some turtle anatomy I did back in the day

26.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 68    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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Galeamopus 🦕

07.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 126    🔁 30    💬 7    📌 1
a white bird that might be a snowy egret forward facing the camera with a near perfect reflection on the water

a white bird that might be a snowy egret forward facing the camera with a near perfect reflection on the water

I kinda want to invest in a solid monopod so I can dangle my camera right on top of the water to get better shots of this kinda thing? but also doesnt seem worth the risk? I guess first step would be bringing a tape measure to see how long it would be? #birds

07.10.2025 15:30 — 👍 71    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing swimming tyrannosaur.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing swimming tyrannosaur.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing life-sized dinosaurs on wall.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing life-sized dinosaurs on wall.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing Isisaurus, volcano, Rajasaurus.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing Isisaurus, volcano, Rajasaurus.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing Isisaurus with eggs.

Discovering Dinosaurs Lightroom scene showing Isisaurus with eggs.

A combined BBC Studios Natural History Unit / Apple Europe trip to Discovering Dinosaurs at Lightroom London. Everyone had an amazing time.

07.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 67    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

This was supposed to be the #SundayFishSketch ...
The bumby snailfish is refusing to get painted at the moment :/ ... I may return to it later or try again.

06.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 247    🔁 54    💬 9    📌 0
Des falaises escarpées de couleur ocre, striées en couches successives. Au premier plan, on voit des reliefs recouverts de sable marron sombre. Le ciel est de couleur marron clair.
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Thomas Appéré

Des falaises escarpées de couleur ocre, striées en couches successives. Au premier plan, on voit des reliefs recouverts de sable marron sombre. Le ciel est de couleur marron clair. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Thomas Appéré

Vous cherchez un spot pour faire de l'escalade 🧗‍♂️?
J'ai ce qu'il vous faut : admirez ces superbes falaises sur Mars photographiées par le rover Curiosity. Celle au centre fait ~39m de haut et avec la faible gravité martienne (1/3 de la pesanteur terrestre), il sera plus facile de grimper !
🧵 1/6

01.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 140    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 4
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WAKE UP EVERYONE NEW #SurvivingEarth STILL FEATURING PLIOSAURS JUST DROPPED!!!

07.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 92    🔁 35    💬 3    📌 8
Captured between 10:43 and 10:59 CEST on 24 September, METimage’s very first image shows clouds connected with a cold weather front sweeping across central Europe and signs of convective storm activity developing over the Adriatic and central Mediterranean seas. High altitude, wispy cirrus clouds hint to potential turbulence over the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, while thin aircraft contrails are clearly visible over cloud-free western Denmark.

Where skies are clear, the Earth’s surface is revealed in fine detail: shimmering lakes can be seen in Türkiye, including the bright white salt flats of Lake Tuz, as well as the green landscapes of the Carpathians and Balkans, and Libya’s Waw an Namus volcanic caldera. Compared with AVHRR’s ~1 km resolution, METimage’s 500-metre view delivers about four times more detail, making it possible to pick out narrow cloud streets, thin valley fog and subtle coastal colour changes with far greater clarity.

Captured between 10:43 and 10:59 CEST on 24 September, METimage’s very first image shows clouds connected with a cold weather front sweeping across central Europe and signs of convective storm activity developing over the Adriatic and central Mediterranean seas. High altitude, wispy cirrus clouds hint to potential turbulence over the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, while thin aircraft contrails are clearly visible over cloud-free western Denmark. Where skies are clear, the Earth’s surface is revealed in fine detail: shimmering lakes can be seen in Türkiye, including the bright white salt flats of Lake Tuz, as well as the green landscapes of the Carpathians and Balkans, and Libya’s Waw an Namus volcanic caldera. Compared with AVHRR’s ~1 km resolution, METimage’s 500-metre view delivers about four times more detail, making it possible to pick out narrow cloud streets, thin valley fog and subtle coastal colour changes with far greater clarity.

🌎 🛰️ Check out the first data from the METimage instrument on board EUMETSAT's MetOp-SG-A1 satellite!

This advanced instrument observes clouds, land, sea and ice, providing key insights into weather forecasting, nowcasting, and climate monitoring. eumetsat.int/metimage-del...

📸 @eumetsat.int

07.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 128    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 2
Infographic about water recycling on the International Space Station.

Infographic about water recycling on the International Space Station.

🚰 The International Space Station recycles up to 80% of its water.

👨‍🚀 Astronauts drink water recycled from their sweat, urine, and exhaled breath.

🧵 Discover how it works in this thread.

#LivingInSpace #WorldSpaceWeek #WSW2025

07.10.2025 09:41 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 4
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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

05.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 607    🔁 300    💬 48    📌 84
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Varios usuarios de Twitter (@ForgottenHrs y @GrecorromanoYT, en este caso) nos están robando ilustraciones para crear supuestos personajes históricos en 3D pasándoles un filtro de IA. Además, presentan las imágenes finales como trabajos propios. Juzgad vosotros mismos.👇

07.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 385    🔁 236    💬 19    📌 16
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‘Turkestan Shrike, adult male’

acrylic, 13 x 18 cms.

Turkestan Shrike, also known as Red-tailed Shrike, is a very rare visitor from Central Asia to the UK. Along with the closely related Daurian Shrike it was once considered one of the sub-species of Isabelline Shrike.
#turkestanshrike
#birdart

05.10.2025 16:45 — 👍 65    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 2
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L'avenir de la sonde Juno est incertain : l'extension de sa mission se terminait le 30 septembre. Cette date est désormais passée et, avec la fermeture du gouvernement américain, on ne sait pas si les opérations de la sonde reprendront avec la reprise des activités de la NASA

07.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Dinosaur animatronics at the Fukui Station west.

07.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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another study with the new procreate brushes that I’ve been chipping away at 🦉

06.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1463    🔁 255    💬 17    📌 0
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🎂Hoy celebramos el 71 aniversario del Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente

🌋 La caldera, que ha sido moldeada por la fuerza del agua💧 y del tiempo⏳, guarda en su interior una magnífica muestra de pinar canario🌲que transiciona en matorral de cumbre🌸 con la altitud.

06.10.2025 15:52 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
A blue bottle jelly with many tentacles emerging from it

A blue bottle jelly with many tentacles emerging from it

oh wow! A stunning Porpita shot from @natalipaqpa on the other site

06.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 63    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 3
There is an infinite beauty to moving water, waiting to be discovered! The purple of a winter evening's twilight is softly reflected in the fast moving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Canada.

There is an infinite beauty to moving water, waiting to be discovered! The purple of a winter evening's twilight is softly reflected in the fast moving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Canada.

Ripples of sand on the top crest of a coastal dune in Namibia catch the last light of day, while wind blown sand further down glows golden as it is lifted into the light.

Ripples of sand on the top crest of a coastal dune in Namibia catch the last light of day, while wind blown sand further down glows golden as it is lifted into the light.

A harmonious interplay of lines, shape, textures and tones, as the first light of day touches the ridge lines of a coastal dune. It was mesmerizing to see how the scene transformed as the light crept into the shadows.

A harmonious interplay of lines, shape, textures and tones, as the first light of day touches the ridge lines of a coastal dune. It was mesmerizing to see how the scene transformed as the light crept into the shadows.

For a short lived moment, the soft light of the morning sun draws beautiful, dreamy bands of satin across the tips of these otherwise inconspicuous dunes in Namibia's mesmerizing Sossusvlei region.

For a short lived moment, the soft light of the morning sun draws beautiful, dreamy bands of satin across the tips of these otherwise inconspicuous dunes in Namibia's mesmerizing Sossusvlei region.

The beauty of soft lines, of meandering lines...

#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #sunrise #sunset

06.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 502    🔁 50    💬 12    📌 2
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Raptorial Headache

06.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 137    🔁 26    💬 9    📌 0
Illustration showing a pair of Cartorhynchus swimming in coastal waters

Illustration showing a pair of Cartorhynchus swimming in coastal waters

A pair of Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, swimming in the shallow coastal waters of Early Triassic Asia

#paleoart #sciart #art

06.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 288    🔁 94    💬 8    📌 2
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Early humans dined on giant sloths and other Ice Age giants, archaeologists find What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

phys.org/news/2025-10...

05.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 84    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 2
The image shows a partly snowy desert, on which some white antennas are distributed, with some gathered together in the middle-left part of the image. In the background a dark mountain arises in front of the blue sky, also with snow on it.

The image shows a partly snowy desert, on which some white antennas are distributed, with some gathered together in the middle-left part of the image. In the background a dark mountain arises in front of the blue sky, also with snow on it.

Under a giant's gaze ⛰️

Some of ALMA's antennas can be seen here in this image of the Chajnantor Plateau, under the silent gaze of an imposing mountain.

Do you know its name and the secret it hides? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2540a/

📷 Y. Villalon/ESO

🔭 🧪

06.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Behold the Eastern Veil Nebula, a haunting supernova remnant that lit up the skies over 10,000 years ago!

It took a month to capture using our little amateur telescope under the clear Texas skies.

This is also Decembers shot in my 2026 calendar (link in my bio)

04.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 353    🔁 76    💬 13    📌 4
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Quan l'entomologia truca a la porta de casa teva 😍.

Preciós exemplar de l'arna Utetheisa pulchella (Fam. Erebidae) que ha vingut a visitar-me aquest matí al balcó. Els seus colors aposemàtics alerten del seu mal sabor i toxicitat (acumulen alcaloids de les 🌱).

05.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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