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

A 360° view from the surface of Mars from Perseverance Rover.

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Thunderstorms seen from space.

A stunningly beautiful jellyfish (Crossota sp.) spotted by an ROV at a depth of 2.3 miles near the Mariana Trench.

📽️: NOAA OER

Earth is beautiful.

Mesmerizing timelapse of lava flows illuminating the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater during Kīlauea’s January 27, 2025 eruption.

📽️: USGS KWcam

Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base.

Source: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
https://demoweb.physics.ucla.edu/content/160-spontaneous-synchronization

The "Screaming Gummy Bear" chemistry demonstration involves dropping a gummy bear into a test tube of molten potassium chlorate (KClO₃), where the sugar reacts violently with the released oxygen producing bursts of flame and gas.

📽️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0

Timelapse of a "Glory of Texas" cactus (Thelocactus bicolor) blooming.

📽️: Petr Vodička / CC BY-SA 4.0

Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets.

Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue

Dwarf mongoose plays dead for hornbill.

Video credit: Tayla McCurdy/WildEarth

A meteor, the Milky Way and Mount Fuji captured by photographer Hayata Suzuki.

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag

Carl Sagan's narration is from Cosmos, Episode 9 "The Lives of the Stars". The full series is available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage

Galaxy rise narrated by Carl Sagan.

Curiosity Rover spotted on the surface of Mars by the orbiting MRO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA

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

#nasa #space #science

A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.

Credit: Roger P. Hangarter

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.

Credit: NASA Goddard

Earth at night viewed from space.

Saturn and its icy moon Dione captured by the Cassini spacecraft. About two thirds of Dione's mass is water ice.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI