Notices by Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social), page 4

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

This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Video credit: Eric Brummel
Eric's Website: https://www.ericbrummel.com/
Watch the full HD version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OK7M2_hUg&list=PLc4W06G5-v7BDRHoh7n3QkUKUDJmgMO0n

@__duncanidaho https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS024&roll=E&frame=13421

@asci Link to full size source is in the alt text.

Earth's thin atmosphere against the blackness of space and the distant crescent Moon.

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

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream"
— Vincent van Gogh

A breathtaking early morning timelapse of Comet NEOWISE rising over the Adriatic Sea behind undulating noctilucent clouds captured in 2022.

Video credit: Paolo Girotti / CC BY
Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220726.html

The view from a spaceship leaving Earth. This timelapse was created from images captured over 24 hours by the MESSENGER spacecraft as it traveled away from Earth to a distance of 435,000 km during a gravity assist swingby on Aug. 2, 2005.

Video credit: Credit NASA/JHUAPL/CIW

The fascinating snow globe effect of a soap bubble freezing.

Video credit: Lorie Shaull / CC BY 2.0
Further reading: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/freezing-soap-bubbles/

The view from the surface of a Comet, an alien landscape captured by the Rosetta spacecraft during its visit to Comet 67P.

Credit: ESA/Rosetta/ @Landru79
Further reading: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180426.html

Feeding dive of a yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) in Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.

Video Credit: Tawaki Project / CC BY 3.0
Source and full video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-eyed_penguin

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Timelapse from the International Space Station passing over the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Panama Isthmus to the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic.

Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second.

Video credit: Joris Schaap / CC BY 3.0
@bugs #photography #nature

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) by the satellite Himawari-8.

Airglow is a faint luminescence in the Earth's upper atmosphere occurring when atoms and molecules excited by sunlight during the day emit light to shed their excess energy.

Read more: https://www.universetoday.com/112237/how-to-see-airglow-the-green-sheen-of-night/

Spectacular timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy and a phenomenon known as airglow seen from the International Space Station.

Watch the full video in 4K on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wMbzylZxEI

Fireflies produce a "cold light" without infrared or ultraviolet frequencies using special organs in their abdomen where the enzyme luciferase binds to luciferin in the presence of oxygen, magnesium ions, and ATP.

Video credit: Atomic Tangerine / CC BY 3.0

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.

Credit: David Rogers

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria

#health #biology #science #phagocytosis