Notices by Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social), page 2

Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.

Video Credit: David Iliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Timelapse of the sun's chromosphere featuring solar spicules—narrow jets stretching up to 6,000 km high and reaching speeds over 100 km/s.

Credit: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, University of Oslo / Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope

The surface of Mars captured by Perseverance Rover.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Time-lapse of a beautiful aurora over northern Norway.

Video credit: Svamppierre

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth.

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

Source: http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/motion30e.html

Time-lapse video of a flight through the eye of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, captured by NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion nicknamed 'Kermit'.

The astonishing camouflage of the Indian leafwing butterfly (Kallima paralekta) mimics a dead leaf, complete with veins and a stem.

Video credit: ra_fus/flickr
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallima_paralekta

Dragonfly liftoff captured at 5000 frames per second.

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

Commander Dave Scott of Apollo 15 validates Galileo's theory on the Moon by dropping a hammer and a feather, proving that objects fall at the same speed, independent of their mass.

Source: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_15_feather_drop.html

Timelapse of nightfall over Cerro Paranal in Chile.

Video credit: ESO/José Francisco Salgado

Beautiful timelapse of Earth rising over the Moon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya.

Credit: JAXA/NHK

The star RS Puppis captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This Cepheid variable star changes brightness by almost a factor of five every 40 days, resulting in a "light echo" on the surrounding gas and dust.

All 13 episodes of the original "Cosmos" are on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage

The long shadows of sunrise seen from space.

The world's loudest bird, the Amazon's white bellbird, has a call that peaks at 125.4 decibels, louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.

Video Credit: Anselmo d'Affonseca
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221931190X#section-cited-by

A new image of Uranus in near-infrared from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the planet's ring system and 9 of its 27 moons.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-150

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

Dwarf mongoose plays dead for hornbill.

Video credit: Tayla McCurdy/WildEarth

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