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This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

Credit: dinaoren0/tiktok
Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@dinaoren0/video/7001678707005852933

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/ESA

A snapping turtle emerges from weeks of sleeping beneath a muddy lake that had dried up.

Image credit: Timothy C. Roth
Further reading: https://www.livescience.com/64215-earth-turtle-photo.html

Colored droplets in corn syrup seemingly blended together can be returned to their original state by reversing the direction of mixing, a form of laminar flow called "Stokes flow".

Video credit: UNM Physics & Astronomy
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes_flow

A breathtaking view of the Sun's reflection on the Pacific Ocean seen from space.

A stunning slow-motion tracking shot of a cheetah running captured at 1200 frames per second.

Source: https://vimeo.com/53914149
More details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFMTB0Pi0g

Credit: Gregory Wilson / CC BY 3.0

Beautiful timelapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. ©JAXA/NHK

#moon #earth #japan #timelapse

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

Sunset on Mars captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

Source: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07997

Spectacular aurora seen from space.

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.

Credit: David Rogers

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria

#health #biology #science #phagocytosis

Starfish walk using hundreds of tiny tube feet on the underside of their arms, as seen in this fascinating timelapse by Juliette Horn at the Frost Museum of Science.

#animals #science #starfish #feet

Earth at night viewed from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#space #nasa #timelapse #science

The pixie's parasol mushroom (Mycena interrupta), found in Australia, New Zealand, and Chile.

Photo Credit: Steve Sargent
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sargimuss/26650626112

#nature #photography #fungi

A beautiful timelapse of the Milky Way galaxy over the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile.

Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

#photography #space #night #timelapse

Comet NEOWISE above Stonehenge captured by photographer Declan Deval in 2020. The last time the comet visited the skies over Earth in its millenia-long journey around the sun the ancient stone circle was just a few hundred years old.

Credit: Declan Deval
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200714.html

#astrophotography #photography #astronomy

A mesmerizing timelapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the SDO spacecraft over the course of a month.

Credit: NASA/SDO
#sun #nasa #space #astronomy

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at Earth from the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA Johnson
#space #iss #nasa #astronaut #earth