The grand design spiral galaxy M100.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble
The grand design spiral galaxy M100.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble
Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA Johnson
@profdc9 If not for the ROV's lights it wouldn't appear so brilliant. This article from NOAA discusses why so many deep-sea creatures are red. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/red-color.html
@ScribblersEmporium The lighting is from the ROV 'Deep Discoverer' that captured the footage.
More about the ROV: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/deep-discoverer/deep-discoverer.html
Source and more details: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1811/logs/photolog/welcome.html#cbpi=/okeanos/explorations/ex1811/dailyupdates/nov8/media/dive8.html
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 OOER
"Cat trotting, changing to a gallop", a sequence of 20 photographs by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887.
Further reading: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hinode-views-2012-venus-transit/
The planet Mercury crossing the face of the Sun captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft during a transit in 2019.
Credit: NASA SVS/SDO
Read more about this image and view the full-size original here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/pia15416.html
The Andromeda galaxy in ultraviolet.
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX
Technical illustration from 1818 showing early balloon designs intended for human flight.
Created by: Warren, Ambrose William, 1781?-1856, engraver.
Sunrise in space viewed from the International Space Station.
Time-lapse credit: ESA/NASA
Jupiter's moon Io as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes.
Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA
The planet Jupiter glowing in thermal infrared, as seen by the Gemini North telescope. The gas giant gives off more heat than it receives from the Sun.
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA M.H. Wong
Links to the full size image on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrightflyer.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS11-40-5875_-_Apollo_11_-_Apollo_11_Mission_image_-_Astronaut_Edwin_Aldrin_salutes_the_U.S._flag_that_has_been_placed_on_the_moon_-_NARA_-_16685052.jpg
These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.
How you wash your hair in space: demonstrated by astronaut Karen Nyberg on the International Space Station.
A beautiful photo of the star RS Puppis and surrounding nebula captured by Hubble.
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus captured by the Cassini spacecraft. The moon's surface is covered with fractures, folds, and ridges; signs of a tectonically active world.
Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI
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