Mandarin duck. They have been known to cover 500 miles in 24 hours.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Curiosity Rover snapped this photo of a tiny and delicate mineral 'flower' on Mars. The rover team confirmed this object is a mineral formation, with delicate structures that formed by minerals precipitating from water. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully drilled, extracted and stored a sample of Martian rock — the first ever Mars sample destined to be flown back to Earth for study.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Arctic Foxes Are 'Ecosystem Engineers' Who Grow Beautiful Gardens. Organic waste from the foxes & their kills make the area surrounding their dens more fertile, leading to almost three times as many dune grasses, willows & wildflowers to sprout up, compared to the rest of the tundra.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
James Webb Space Telescope acquired this view of Saturn's largest moon Titan and the atmospheric haze around the moon. A. Pagan, W. M. Keck Observatory, NASA...1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
NASA’s Curiosity rover spotted these weird-looking stick-like spikes of rock at Gale crater on Mars.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Mars Perseverance Rover viewed this image of Martian landscape using its Mastcam-Z imager3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Jon Carmichael took this photo of a total solar eclipse that swept across the U.S. for the first time in 99 years on August, 20172yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The red junglefowl -- the wild ancestor of the chicken -- is losing its genetic diversity by interbreeding with domesticated birds. Genomes of 100 year old birds show that modern wild junglefowl have inherited 20% to 50% of their genomes from domestic birds.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Himalayan monal is a bird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The thick gray mane that young cheetah cubs have on the nape, shoulders, and back appears to function as camouflage from predators. The infant hair disappears after 3 months of age after their mother no longer hides them and they begin to follow her.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Earth from space. The 1st picture of the Earth, taken on October 1946, from a rocket 105 km above the ground.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The blue-white terrains indicate relatively pure water ice, whereas the reddish areas contain water ice mixed with hydrated salts. Credit: NASA/JPL, Caltech, SETI Institute10mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Dogs notice when computer animations violate Newton’s laws of physics. This doesn’t mean dogs necessarily understand physics, with its complex calculations. But it does suggest that dogs have an implicit understanding of their physical environment.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Arctic fox, which weighs just 3 kilograms, can journey thousands of kilometres across the tundra in less than a year. They can also survive in frigid Arctic temperatures as low as -58°F or -50°C1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
This is the first demonstration of formation of a supermassive black hole4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
As a sunbittern spreads its wings, a patch of chestnut and orange appears on the primary wing feathers and across the tail. This display is primarily used as a threat or defense rather than courtship and is typically accompanied by a low hiss and bowing.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Extremely rare pink auroras temporarily emerged above Norway after a strong solar storm caused a small crack in the Earth's magnetosphere, enabling solar wind to penetrate below 62 miles into Earth's nitrogen-riched atmosphere. credit: Frank Meissner1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
One of the rarest landscape ever taken of the outer regions of the Solar System. A Plutonian Landscape.It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Webb Telescope has taken this image of Wolf-Rayet 140 -- a star around 5,600 light-years away. The star is surrounded by what appear to be concentric rings of light radiating outward. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Judy Schmidt,1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
The cheetah is one of the fastest terrestrial mammals, with reported maximum speeds ranging from 80 to 112 kilometers per hour.5mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
This close view of Jupiter was captured by Juno. Credit: NASA , JPL ,Caltech , SwRI, MSSS , Kevin M Gill , Michael Galanin1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: how it looks in polarised light.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
A Plutonian Landscape. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Dragon Aurora over Iceland Image Credit & Copyright: Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Pygmy seahorses (Hippocampus bargibanti) are only 2 cm long and they're remarkably good at camouflaging themselves amongst the gorgonian coral they inhabit.1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
The most advanced image ever taken of a star being born. Credit: JWST/MIRI, ESA, DIAS7mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
On September 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, Juno took this image of an area in the planet’s far northern region. NASA6mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Similar to farm animals such as cattle or sheep, wild red deer grazing in open landscapes can also contribute to the conservation of protected habitats.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Captured on 25 January 2022, from Portugal, this high-res image shows a massive solar prominence erupting from the solar limb. The prominence changed in appearance until it presented an incredible shape that resembled the silhouette of a mammoth. Miguel Claro1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
JWST captured the clearest view of Neptune’s rings and 7 of its 14 known moons. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, appears brighter than the planet in this Webb view.8mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Jupiter by Juno. New results from Juno mission suggest the planet is home to “shallow lightning.” An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning comes from a unique ammonia-water solution. 4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
In December 2008, Venus, Jupiter and Moon aligned to form a smiley face. People in Australia saw happy face smiley whereas people in the North saw a sad face smiley :)4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Annular Solar Eclipse 21st June, 2020 as observed from Suratgarh, Rajasthan.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
This mosaic of 53 images was recorded by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft as it passed by the Moon in 1992. NASA/JPL2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
A new study which helped pet parrots make video calls to each other suggests that the birds may have benefited from making new feathered friends over the internet.11mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Saturn through Titan's haze: On March 31,2005, just minutes after the Cassini spacecraft's closest approach to Titan, Cassini viewed Saturn peeking through Titan's thick atmosphere.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
An infrared masterpiece of icy giant Uranus and its rings, imaged by the Keck observatory — almost 3 billion km away from the telescope.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this image of an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the “Murray Buttes” region on lower Mount Sharp on Sept. 8, 2016. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
This picture of Uranus was snapped by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
A jet caught in front of the Sun during the transit of Venus, the black dot on the right side of the solar disk. The last Venus transit was in 2012, & the next pair of events will take place in 2117 & 2125.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The Himalayan monal. Its colouration and iridescent plumage are due to photonic structures present in the internal structure of the feathers.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
This is the deepest and sharpest images yet of our Galactic Centre -- the centre of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. Credit: ESO/GRAVITY collaboration2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
The term black panther is an umbrella term that refers to the 14 species of wildcat that can have melanism.Dark fur provides them great nighttime camouflage, but may impair visual communication between melanistic cats.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Awwducational
Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn.5yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
🔥 A Spotted Deer with its antlers decorated by a pair of Rufous Treepies2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
The near-infrared & mid-infrared images of the pillars of creation (taken by James Webb Space Telescope) were fused together. J. DePasquale, A Pagan, A M Koekemoer1yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
A Hole in Mars. The hole (about 35 meters across) was discovered by chance in 2011 on images of the dusty slopes of Mars' Pavonis Mons volcano taken by theHiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling Mars.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
ESA’s Mars Express has produced a new image of Mars. ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael10mo ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
Voyager 2 had taken this image of Uranus and its ring in January 19864yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/spaceporn
Europa casting a shadow onto Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This is a multiple composite made from real image data acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft on May 22, 2000 and Sept. 19, 1997, and Cassini on Dec. 29, 20002yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/space
