The shadow of a walking millipede. 📽: Crystal Allbright

These rows are perfectly horizontal and are not moving. A mind-bending anomalous motion variation of the Café wall illusion by Akiyoshi Kitaoka.

Can you see the plane just below the clouds? Direct Hit on an A380 out of SeaTac. If you were in the South Puget Sound at about 4:45pm, this is what you heard #wawx #Lightning #thunderstorm

Some curious pufferfish meet a diver. 📽: Gotzon Mantuliz

Listen to the hypnotizing sound of whale song as a mother and baby humpback whale bask in the warm waters off the coast of Tonga. 📽: Paul Nicklen

The Great Pyramid of Giza seen from above. 📸: Alexander Ladanivskyy

The beautiful and mysterious galaxy known as Hoag's Object has a nucleus of older yellow stars surrounded by a ring of young blue stars separated by a gap spanning thousands of light-years. 📸: NASA​/​ESA​/​STScI

A blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived, viewed from above. 📽: Delaney Trowbridge

This is how plants breathe. A close-up view of a single stoma on the leaf of a boat lily, seen through a microscope. 📽: Douglas Clark

JUST IN: 2024 Antarctic ozone hole ranks 7th-smallest since recovery began, find NOAA and NASA. Details: noaa.gov/news-release/2… NOAA Research NOAA Climate.gov

There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

He never missed

The dragon-headed caterpillar.

The transformation of water into ice visualized on a molecular level. 📽: CSIRO Data61

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An efficient and vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism Lacrymaria olor, attacks and consumes another single-cell organism. 📽: James Weiss