This map will hurt your brain! It shows what our beloved earth would look like if it rotated the other way around. Ocean currents, winds and weather patterns would be different. Africa would be the big winner. USA would suffer. Source: buff.ly/2VKdD94

After months of chasing starlings, photographer James Crombie captured this remarkable shot of the flock as it swelled into an enormous bird-like murmuration [read more, author's site: inpho.ie]

France. everything else is just talk. no one else has achieved this by any other means.

Meanwhile in Mullaghmore Co.Sligo this week… 🎥Clem McInerney Wild Atlantic Way

This was inspired by Caroline Pover who noticed about 3 million people got their first vaccine but not a second and wanted to understand why coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccin… It seems odd to only get 1 jab when its very clearly a 2 dose course.

Planes circling Dublin Airport and even some diversions now as thunderstorms continue. I hope they have better joy at Shannon Airport! Another video of funnel cloud sent in follower, this time taken at Dublin Airport.

Saint-Malo, Brittany, has one of the highest tides in Europe, with water that can rise 13 m over. These houses (here seen during storm Ciara), are built as a sea wall and 4 layer glass on the front windows. [📹 Easy Ride]

Find the curved line. This grid tricks you into thinking there's a curved line somewhere, but you can't find it. The purposefully placed gray lines will induce your peripheral vision to interpolate curved lines [image by Lesha Porche. Explanation: buff.ly/3b79VC8]

2024 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE — The most stunning natural phenomenon on Earth, a total solar eclipse, swept across North America today. Here’s the entire sequence as seen from Presque Isle, Maine, under crystal clear skies.

Amazing aurora looking south west in galway

#aurora #northernlights directly overhead in galway

As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at

First color photograph Jupiter. 1991.

The final 50m of the Olympics 800m Freestyle. Daniel Wiffen turns on the jets and makes his mark on Olympics history. We witnessed something special tonight.

#lightning near athenry

#Auroraborealis at 7:45pm today near athenry #north ernlights

Achill Island, Co Mayo - 21.11.24 💚❤️ #snow #achillisland #mayo #ireland

White tailed eagles officially now classed as being successfully reintroduced to Ireland. 150 established birds now in the country. Amazing news! . Here’s female B released in 2020 on Lough Derg.

Mystery solved! Turns out the “lion” spotted roaming Clare was just a Newfoundland dog with a fresh haircut! Gardaí from Killaloe have concluded that the recent video of a “lion like” animal roaming around the woods in East Clare is in fact the very friendly dog named ‘Mouse’.

Troy Parrott, take your place on the pantheon of Irish greats 🇮🇪