The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.
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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.
13.12.2025 22:11 — 👍 176 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 0The 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.
26.11.2025 05:55 — 👍 40 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The 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.
26.11.2025 05:54 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Apollo 17 lifts off from the Moon on December 14, 1972, the last time humans visited the lunar surface and traveled beyond Earth's orbit.
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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.
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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
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10.11.2025 22:13 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Hand 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
26.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Earth is beautiful.
26.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 190 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 2The source for the orbital image and more details can be found here: www.uahirise.org/ESP_069031_1...
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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.
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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
