Notices by Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social), page 3

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/

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

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

A spiny orb-weaver spider carefully building her web. Spiny orb-weavers create intricate webs up to 60cm in diameter with as many as 30 loops in the outer spiral.

Video credit: Rachel Barry
Further reading: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN324

Flying over the line between day and night in the International Space Station.

Full 4K widescreen version on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Aa4mm_OGL34

The E/V Nautilus team encounter a Flapjack Octopus off the central California coast.

Video credit: E/V Nautilus

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

https://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/movements/nastic/nastic.html

#botany #nature #plants #science

Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky.

Video credit: Martin Giraud
Watch the full 4K original on Martin's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZH1vS45oW4

Earth at night viewed from space.

Solar System bodies to scale.

Animation by @Physicsj

Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) are the acrobats of the ocean, spinning up to seven times during leaps as high as 3m (10 ft).

Video credit: John Downer Productions
Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b4FGlWGsuo
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_dolphin

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station.

Time-lapse of astronaut Chris Cassidy working outside the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth.

Video credit: NASA Johnson

The wave-like nature of Asperitas clouds becomes apparent when viewed in time-lapse.

Video credit: Alex Schueth

Full 4K version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7BgxrVmiQ
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperitas_(cloud)

Incredible footage of a Kingfisher dive captured in slow motion.

Kingfishers compensate for the reflection and refraction of water to pinpoint the depth and position of prey underwater.

Video credit: RTÉ
Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CsyenHROSE

What happens when galaxies collide? A billion year gravitational waltz.

This computer simulation includes images from Hubble of actual galactic collisions at different stages.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30686

A spectacular timelapse flying over Mexico and the United States at night in the International Space Station.

4K landscape version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qf4a02yOsI

The fantastic dead leaf mimicry of the Uropyia meticulodina moth lets it hide in plain sight.

Video credit: Kazuo Unno
Source: https://www.goo.ne.jp/green/life/unno/movie/movie.html?movieid=1340715995

This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.

Credit: CSA/NASA

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