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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein

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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: https://www.livescience.com/kilonovas-rain-gold-on-the-universe.html

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These incredible ibex defy gravity climbing a near-vertical dam in search of nutritious salt.

Video credit: BBC

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Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA

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Astronaut Alan Bean enjoying weightlessness in the open space of the orbital workshop on the Skylab space station in 1973.

A shirtless man in white shorts floating and performing somesaults along the ring of stowage containers lining the wall of the workshop on Skylab.

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A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.

Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. 'Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles.' DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620612114

Close-up of a red ladybird beetle unfurling its delicate wings from beneath its spotted elytra.

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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

Plant waves its new growth in the air.

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Saturn and its icy moon Dione captured by the Cassini spacecraft. About two thirds of Dione's mass is water ice.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI

Dione floating against Saturn’s layered atmosphere with delicate ring lines stretching across the black sky.
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A 360-degree view of the Moon's surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

High resolution animation of the Moon rotating slowly against a blank black background.

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A stunning example of volcanic lightning, created when colliding particles of volcanic ash generate massive amounts of static electricity, captured by photographer Sergio Tapiro.

Sergio's website: http://galeria.sergiotapiro.com

A volcano erupting at night with streams of glowing lava and a towering ash plume lit by a branching lightning bolt under a starry sky.
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The LI-900 silica tiles used on the Space Shuttle were such poor heat conductors you could grab them with bare hands seconds after pulling them from a 2200 degree oven.

Source: http://bit.ly/2I7k683

Glowing orange cubes are pulled from an oven with tongs. A man picks up one of the cubes by the edges.

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Comet NEOWISE rising over the Earth just before dawn as seen from the International Space Station.

Earth's curved horizon, framed by airglow that gives way to a brilliant blue-white dawn, and a pale grey smudge of a comet rises above with the stars.

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A spectacular timelapse flying over Mexico and the United States at night in the International Space Station.

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A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

Brightly colored jellyfish floating and tumbling.

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These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.

Top (17 December 1903) – The Wright brothers’ first successful flight of the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Bottom (20 July 1969) – Astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing beside the U.S. flag on the lunar surface during an Apollo 11 EVA.
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Earth at night viewed from space.

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When a helicopter's rotors synchronize with the camera frame rate.

Credit: Like tears in rain/CC-BY-SA-4.0

Helicopter hovering under a partly cloudy sky with rotor blades appearing stationary as it descends over scrubland.

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Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)

Timelapse capturing the transition from day to night over a high-altitude desert landscape, from clear blue skies, to sunset hues, then a star-filled night sky with the Milky Way prominently visible, and concluding with the early morning light at dawn.

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Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA Johnson

A snow-capped stratovolcano surrounded by green fields.
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A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.

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Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

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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

Slowly panning across a black-and-white image of Pluto’s crescent, revealing rugged mountains, smooth plains, and a hazy, layered atmosphere against the darkness of space.

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A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.

Credit: NASA/SDO

Rotating sphere glows in oranges and blues against the blackness of space.

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Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at Earth from the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA Johnson

A casually dressed astronaut rests against the round earth-filled windows of the International Space Station's Cupola module.
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The same side of the Moon always faces Earth, but not in exactly the same way. Due to its tilted axis and elliptical orbit, we see about 59% of its surface over time. This simulation compresses a year into 60 seconds, making the Moon's apparent wobble, called libration, clearly visible.

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

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Timelapse of the Aurora Boreales over Kjerfjorden in Nordland, Norway.

Credit: WarningBrothers Studios, CC BY 3.0

Timelapse video of a shimmering green aurora snaking across a star-filled sky above snow-capped mountains, reflecting in the still waters of a fjord.

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This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.

Chemical analysis of lava provides important information about activity deep inside a volcano's magma chambers.

Video credit: USGS

Geologist Tim Orr, wearing olive coveralls, heat resistant gloves, white bucket hat, and a black bandana covering his face, scoops glowing red-orange lava with a rock hammer and drops it into a metal, water-filled bucket.

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Sunset in space viewed from the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA Johnson

A view from space of a brilliant white Sun slowly setting behind the turning Earth.

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Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March.

Video credit: Robert Schwarz
Source: https://vimeo.com/208466944

Time-lapse video tracking the glowing sphere of the Sun as it circles the horizon, passing behind thin cloud cover and isolated buildings.

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The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

Photo credit: Steve Sargent

A vibrant blue mushroom with a translucent, glossy cap and thin stem, growing on a wooden surface.
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Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second.

Video credit: Joris Schaap / CC BY 3.0
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A stunning slow-motion tracking shot of a cheetah running captured at 1200 frames per second.

Source: https://vimeo.com/53914149
More details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFMTB0Pi0g

Credit: Gregory Wilson / CC BY 3.0

A large, slender cat with a tawny coat covered in black spots, flexing its long spine as it bounds across a grass field.