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A shadow of an island appears indistinct through a veil of heavy clouds and smog, rising from an expanse of open, grey water.

Dark mountains dominate the image, its snowcapped peaks touching the overcast sky. Thin waterfalls trace down from peaks to the valley.

A white ship with a red hull is dwarfed by majestic mountains enriched in green vegetation, little ribbons of waterfalls streaming from peak to the open water reflecting the mountains.

#MilfordSound #WestCoastNZ #NewZealand #mountains #mountainphotography #fjords #naturephotography #landscapephotography (Taken at Milford Sound in 2016)

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Close up of a couple of overlapping brown leaves, hinting at the season of autumn. The veins of the leaves are clearly visible, made stark by the sunlight brushing up behind the leaves. The background is heavily blurred, only a smudge of green and blue.

#Autumn #Fall #AutumnLeaves #photography #naturephotography

A boat with a tall white sail and body sails on calm ocean water, its reflection clear in the ripples. Mountains, appearing blue, rise a little into the cloudless blue sky.

#AbelTasman #photography #shipphotography #boatphotography #sea #NewZealand (Abel Tasman, April 2025)

A close up photo of a bird's black head and long neck; it has a bright yellow bill. The background, blurred out of focus, shows rocks and strands of long grasses.

Saw this guy sunning on a rock at the side of the road on my holiday - a nice NZ #shag #bird #birdphotography #naturephotography #photography

Was on holiday a couple weeks ago in the #AbelTasman and got a few shots of this beautiful flower in morning dew. #flower #flowers #flowerphotography #naturephotography

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Been spending the last couple months hyperfixating on #MassEffect and readjusting to life without study (and no work, until now - a casual role, but something nonetheless). My hyperfixation on Mass Effect has even seen me naming my spider plant Chatika, after #Tali'Zorah 's drone XD

Two trees cross a branch each toward each other, so it appears to mark an "x" between them. The skinny trunks, bifurcating into two (or three) branches, are softly dappled with shadows of twigs against the soft golden light of sunset on bark.

Photo taken during an autumn sunset back in 2013 in #ChingfordPark #Dunedin #NZ #sunset #sunsetphotography #photography #trees #treephotography

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, corresponding to the densest parts of the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side

Tomorrow's NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD): baby solar system HH 30.

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

Despite being almost exclusively a calcite collector, this beauty will forever be one of my favorite mineral specimens.

I see it as a little malachite volcano erupting into a sea of deep blue azurite. 😍

A close up photo of the back of a leaf, showing green and orange-brown fanning away from the green central stem.

Extreme close up of the back of a leaf, showing slim arcs of brown divided by thicker bands of green-brown. It reminds me, the photographer, of some of the old Voyager close-up photos of Saturn's rings.

An intimate study of #leaves with the #sunlight shining through them. #nature #naturephotography #leaves #leafphotography

Leaves are silhouetted against a blue, pre-dawn sky with a light swath of white clouds. The tree is partially bare of leaves, suggesting the season to be autumn.

Took this photo back in 2013, in #Dunedin #NZ #NewZealand of trees in mid-autumn, some leaves still clinging to branches letting go of their leaves. #naturephotography #treephotography #leafphotography #autumn #autumnphotography

A close-in image of protoplanetary disc HH 30. Parts of the image are labelled “Jet” (above and below the disc), “Conical Outflow”, “Possible Spiral”, “Dark Lane”, “Disk”, and “Tail”. A scale marker in the bottom-left is labelled “300 au”; this is a little wider than the disc itself, but less wide than the conical outflows above and below the disc

New JWST image of protostar HH 30, with legend.
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A bright comet seen next to the telescopes of the ESO observatory in Chile

ESO has some fantastic images of comet C/2024 G3 from their observatory in Chile

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Credit for this one belongs to F. Millour/ESO

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#Fern and #morningdew taken in #Marahau #NewZealand during a... I think it was sunrise? It was 2013 when this photo was taken, so can't remember ;) #nature #naturephotography #plantphotography #ferns

YouTube video by Chai Latte Nebula Chert - An Apt Name

#Chert, our beloved 🥚in #OuterWilds is named after a sedimentary rock that's primarily composed of SiO2 (silicon dioxide). youtu.be/SCGVQJS-5XY

#Roses with #frost on their petals, photographed in the #DunedinBotanicGardens in #Dunedin #NewZealand #NZ in 2013. #flowers #flowerphotography #naturephotography

YouTube video by Chai Latte Nebula Slate - Low grade autopilot AND rock

A new geology bite, courtesy of #Slate in #OuterWilds, talking about this #metamorphic rock often used in things like roofing tiles. youtu.be/nRN_51eiNuA (And yes, I had to have a dig at the autopilot. Fix that schist, Slate!)

YouTube video by Chai Latte Nebula Earth's Hollow's Lantern Phase?

#OuterWilds delivers in more ways than one, and that includes #geology lore, courtesy of #HollowsLantern, talking about how Earth was a molten ball 4.5 billion years ago - what I'm now affectionately calling its Hollow's Lantern Phase. www.youtube.com/shorts/52Qkr...

A close up photograph of a flower with pink petals in full bloom.

A gorgeous Japanese pink #camellia taken in 2013 at the #DunedinBotanicGardens in #DunedinNZ. #Nature #NaturePhotography #flowers #flowerphotography

This periodic table depicts the primary source on Earth for each element: from the Big Bang, massive stars, white-dwarf supernovae, merging neutron stars, low-mass stars, or other processes. In cases where two sources contribute fairly equally, both appear.

You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down and tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. 🧪

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/

This is giving me very Outer Wilds vibes and I love it ::)

Two small round clay disks in my hand painted with acrylics to look like Pluto and Charon.

Pluto and Charon

Friendly reminder that the core of Mercury is way bigger than we think it should be, and that the planet's basically a giant molten ballbearing with a thin blanket of rock on top.

Took these photos of gorgeous magnolia blooms a long time ago (I think 2014-ish) in the #DunedinBotanicGardens in #DunedinNZ #NewZealand #flowerphotography #nature #naturephotography

One day I hope to make a #photo as beautiful as this one I took of a #butterfly at the #OtagoMuseum 's #ButterflyHouse in #Dunedin #NewZealand.

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