2051
Male seahorse giving birth
Thyy go thrugh pregnancy after the female deposits the eggs into their pouch where they are fertilized and grow, then hatch as fully formed mini-seahorses
[video: buff.ly/3XS0rhZ]
[read more: buff.ly/3VG0ITg]
2052
If you have never seen what a rocket launch looks like from a plane above the clouds & by night, this surreal view of InSight liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base captured by Leslie Radosevich in 2018 is your thing
[full video: buff.ly/2WCp0A7]
2053
A real time view of Aurora Borealis. Its bright "dance" is due to the collision between electrically charged particles that enter the earth's atmosphere at ~400 km/s and to magnetic reconnection
[read more: buff.ly/3CFMREu]
[📹 Matt Robinson]
2054
The Bell V 280 helicopter comes with augmented reality goggles for ease of maintenance. It allows you to “see through the covers” to see the layout of the components beneath
[source, Herman Singh: buff.ly/3fRSXu2]
2055
Located in Shiraz, Iran, the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque, also known as the Pink Mosque, is a dazzling wonderland of rich hues, geometric patterns, and light that play on the ceiling (here shown a detail) and floor of the mosque [read more: buff.ly/2t8X78y]
2056
Artist Roberto Ziche computer rendered in 3D these sleek graphics elegantly depicting the immense scale of our Solar System and its planets. This meticulous work leaves the viewer with a stunning depiction of the massive scale of our planetary neighbors buff.ly/3wn9aM1
2057
Floating soaked loops of thread onto a soap film. How surface tension pulls the thread into round loops
[source: buff.ly/2rXZJ5y]
2058
The Klein Bottle (in this version by Cliff Stoll) is a 3D representation of a four dimensional mathematical object with one side, no edges, and zero volume. Kind of like a Möbius strip with no edges [source, read more: buff.ly/38lhKQA]
2059
This impressive underwater photo by Emma Holmann shows a couple of humpback whales with their calf as capture off the coast of Vava'u, Vava'u, Tonga [author's site and more photos: emmahphotography.com]
2060
Trimeresurus stejnegeri, also known as Chinese pit viper, is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to Asia. Here you see one stretching its jaws
[read more: buff.ly/3SR7KDO]
[📹buff.ly/3RQn1DF]
2061
When a guitar string is plucked, each of the vibration patterns observed (with the help of the rolling shutter effect) is called a mode
[read more: bit.ly/2qWqB3J]
[source, Jecus Andrei: buff.ly/3P0Lwhn]
2062
The glass frog is named for its transparent skin, so that you can see all its internal organs
[read more: buff.ly/2lsDhh7]
[photo, Jaime Culebras: buff.ly/2rhJvHi]
2063
Huernia zebrina, the little owl, is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Africa. Its shiny, large flowers may look like plastic [photo by Reddit user u/7-methyltheophylline: buff.ly/3m9GsKH]
2064
This video by Magnetic Geames features a series of remarkable slow motion magnet collisions [source and full video: buff.ly/2IPnre2]
2065
These two mounds are in the Louisiana State University campus & they are structures older than the pyramids: one has been dated to be the among the oldest known human structures on earth. Yet they were used for tailgate parties until 2010
[read more: buff.ly/3UAlFOD]
2066
These tiny, translucent glassfrogs increase their transparency two- to threefold while sleeping by temporarily storing red blood cells in their liver
[read more: buff.ly/3ChJm7X]
2067
Pyrophorus nyctophanus, aka the headlight beetle
[read more: buff.ly/3i3bVPd]
[source, Bart Coppens: buff.ly/3U5i4aZ]
2068
Lamproderma muscorum first appears as a white ooze emerging out of a log. Within days the ooze starts to turn into small ‘beads’. Eventually they get pinkish with intense iridescence at torch light
[read more: buff.ly/3HKupPe]
[📷 Sarah Lloyd: buff.ly/3WtXPpg]
2069
Miniatur Wunderland located in Hamburg, Germany is the world’s biggest model airport
[read more: buff.ly/3YOAlx0]
[📹 Nates_Aviation]
2070
Caladenia melanema, commonly known as the ballerina orchid, is a rare orchid with a single erect, hairy leaf and one or two cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers with red markings and black tips on the sepals and petals [read more: buff.ly/2O5TNU3]
2071
The Rhei clock uses a magnetic liquid called ferrofluid to tell time. At each minute, the clock's magnetic field is programmed to change, moving the liquid in its display [source, read more: buff.ly/2TAmUhT]
2072
You’ll start to hear words, but nobody is actually talking. What you’re hearing is an auditory illusion, a series of very rapidly played piano notes which replicate the sound of a human voice
[video, by Game & Gig: buff.ly/3sc6xwq]
[read more: buff.ly/33BFeRR]
2073
Fireflies produce a "cold light", with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies, with wavelengths from 510 to 670 nanometers to attract mates or prey
[read more: buff.ly/3GArNQ8]
[📹 Scott Radke: buff.ly/3IMkmaM]
2074
The story of the young arctic fox that walked across the ice from Norway's Svalbard islands to northern Canada in an epic journey, covering 3,506 km (2,176 miles) in just 76 days
[read more: buff.ly/2FGW6YD]
2075
The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sound sculpture resembling a tree set in the landscape of the Pennine hill range overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire, England. When the wind blows, it produces a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound ow.ly/LdGk50obHqt
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