Close Encounter Of The 3rd Eye

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It's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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It looks like a submarine!⁣ 🤩

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Meanwhile in west Texas, storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime on May 17th, 2021, with this fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun. x

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Supernova Remnant E0102 72

Credits: NASA, CXC, et al., STScI

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Researchers trained African grey parrots to exchange tokens for treats, then paired them so one bird had ten tokens and the other had none; despite having no direct incentive to share, the token‑rich parrots began handing tokens to their empty‑handed partners so they could “buy” treats.

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In 1965, a Ukrainian farmer uncovered a mammoth jawbone while digging his cellar. Excavations revealed four huts made from 149 mammoth bones, dating back 15,000 years, making them among the oldest prehistoric shelters ever found.

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The Earth has a “heartbeat” every 26 seconds. Seismometers detect a rhythmic microseismic pulse from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic, and its exact cause is still unknown.

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A man powered his home for eight years using 1,000 old laptop batteries organized into battery packs, recharged with solar panels, in a well-designed off-grid setup.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

2025 July 18

ISS Meets Saturn

Image Credit & Copyright: A.J. Smadi

Explanation: This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. And in the early morning hours on July 6, it posed very briefly with the International Space Station when viewed from a location in Federal Way, Washington, USA. This well-planned image, a stack of video frames, captures their momentary conjunction in the same telescopic field of view. With the ISS in low Earth orbit, space station and gas giant planet were separated by almost 1.4 billion kilometers. Their apparent sizes are comparable but the ISS was much brighter than Saturn and the ringed planet's brightness has been increased for visibility in the stacked image. Precise timing and an exact location were needed to capture the ISS/Saturn conjunction.

Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)

NASA Official: Amber Straughn

A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC,

NASA Science Activation

& Michigan Tech. U.

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Shiny Blue Monkey Beetle (Hoplia caerulea), family Scarabaeidae, NE Spain

photograph by Lluis Copete

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