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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025

The long shadows of sunrise seen from space. #space #earth #science

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Dec 18, 2025

Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets.

Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 25, 2025

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.

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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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"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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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 24, 2025

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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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 21, 2025

The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

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

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 13, 2025

Dwarf mongoose plays dead for hornbill. Video credit: Tayla McCurdy/WildEarth

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 05, 2025

A meteor, the Milky Way and Mount Fuji captured by photographer Hayata Suzuki.

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Nov 03, 2025

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

Video credit: BBC

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 30, 2025

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2025

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

Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 22, 2025

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

#nasa #space #science

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 18, 2025

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

#nature #photography #science

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 16, 2025

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

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Oct 13, 2025

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

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · Sep 04, 2025

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

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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social · May 01, 2024

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)

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