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wonderofscience, 23 days ago to random

A Rhopalonematid jelly (Crossota millsae) feeding with tentacles extended in all directions filmed at a depth of 1,015 meters (3,330 feet) off southwestern Puerto Rico.

Video credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

A jellyfish with a transparent, bell-shaped body and numerous long, thin, pink tentacles extending outward. Its body is a delicate, translucent pink and red structure, and the tentacles are fine and hair-like. The jellyfish is floating and pulsating gently through the water against a background gradient of deep blue and a pale sea floor.

wonderofscience, 27 days ago to random

The majestic Sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is instantly recognizable by its brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes.

Image credit: NASA/STScI/AURA

The video pans slowly across a spiral galaxy viewed edge-on, highlighting its bright central core and a dense, dark dust lane bisecting it horizontally. The thin disk extends from the central bulge, glowing against the darkness of space scattered with distant stars and faint galaxies. It concludes by zooming out to capture the entire galaxy.

wonderofscience, 1 month ago to random

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.

wonderofscience, 1 month ago to random

Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.

Video Credit: David Iliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Timelapse video of the Falkirk Wheel, with its curved arms cradling water-filled gondolas rotating around a central axis, seamlessly raising and lowering vessels between the joining canals, all under an overcast sky that casts a soft glow on the wheel and the green landscape.

wonderofscience, 1 month ago to random

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

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

A helicopter's rotor blades appear stationary as it flies overhead.

wonderofscience, 2 months ago to random

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth.

Countless sparkling stars turn slowly above a darkened Earth.

wonderofscience, 2 months ago to random

Timelapse of the sun's chromosphere featuring solar spicules—narrow jets stretching up to 6,000 km high and reaching speeds over 100 km/s.

Credit: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, University of Oslo / Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope

A close-up view of the sun's limb, featuring bright orange and red swirling patterns against the stark blackness of space.

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

Time-lapse of the night sky in Antarctica.

Video credit: Kenrick Turner / CC BY 3.0

A clear star filled sky circles the horizon over a barren icy landscape and distant mountains.

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

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

Full 4K landscape version on Youtube for those watching on a TV or monitor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnRCeoyyP84

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wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

Albatross mating dance (sound on).

Video credit: Brocken Inaglory

Large white seabirds performing complex movements, bobbing heads, circling bills, pointing their bills toward the sky and beneath their wings.

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

Glass frogs, native to the rainforests of Central and South America, are characterized by their translucent skin through which their internal organs can be seen.

Image credit: Geoff Gallice, CC BY 2.0

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

These rows are perfectly horizontal and are not moving. A mind-bending anomalous motion variation of the Café wall illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka.

Source: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/motion30e.html

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

The surface of Mars captured by Perseverance Rover.

Image credit: NASA​/​JPL-Caltech​/​ASU​/​MSSS

A landscape with reddish terrain and scattered rocks. Jagged and rounded boulders dot the dusty ground, leading to distant slopes under a clear, warm-hued sky.

wonderofscience, 3 months ago to random

Time-lapse of a beautiful aurora over northern Norway.

Video credit: Svamppierre

The night sky, filled with stars and rippling waves of vibrant purple and green, stretches above rugged, snow-covered peaks. The auroras' colors are reflected in the still waters of a lake at the mountains' feet.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

Close-up view of a sunspot the size of Earth on the surface of the Sun filmed by the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope. Sunspots are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by intense magnetic fields.

Video credit: Luc Rouppe van der Voort / ISP

Video of a large sunspot with dark umbra, lighter penumbra, and surrounding granulated solar surface.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

Time-lapse video of a flight through the eye of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, captured by NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion nicknamed 'Kermit'.

View over the wing of a turboprop aircraft, first in clouds, then in the clear skies of the hurricane's eye, and then back into clouds.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

The astonishing camouflage of the Indian leafwing butterfly (Kallima paralekta) mimics a dead leaf, complete with veins and a stem.

Video credit: ra_fus/flickr
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallima_paralekta

A dead leaf on a tree trunk is revealed to be a butterfly when it opens its colorful wings, whose upper surfaces are deep blue with orange bands.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

A selfie from Curiosity Rover on the surface of Mars.

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
More details: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/25275103228

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

Timelapse of astronaut Chris Cassidy working outside the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth.

Earth turning fills the bottom half of frame, in the foreground on the right of frame Chris in spacesuit uses tools and shifts positions next to an ISS module. The timelapse finishes with a close-up of Chris lifting his visor and looking into the camera.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

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.

Further reading: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/leaving-moon-watching-home

Video from the Moon's surface shows the boxy ascent stage of Apollo's Lunar Module detaching from its spidery descent counterpart and swiftly rising into the black daytime sky.

wonderofscience, 4 months ago to random

The astonishing scale of supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from 100,000 to over 60 billion times our Sun's. This visualization compares the sizes of black hole shadows to solar system objects, featuring giants like Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way and the colossal TON 618.

Animation credit: NASA Goddard
Source and further details: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335

A slow zoom-out begins with our Sun, then extends far beyond the size of the solar system, showing representations of various supermassive black holes at progressively larger sizes.