From the ocean to the moon flows the Moon Jellyfish.
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This is NGC 1309, observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image features NGC 1309 among hundreds of distant galaxies.
NGC 5335, captured serving a striking slice of star power.
Black Holes are among the most mysterious cosmic phenomena.
31 million light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Canes Venatici, whirls Messier 51 — otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.
🦋 The Butterfly Nebula’s wings of glory blossoming into the universe.
The iconic Pillars of Creation — the soaring tendrils of cosmic dust and gas that sit at the heart of M16 (The Eagle Nebula).
The International Space Station (ISS) stands as a quintessential moment in humanity’s advancement of science and, above all, the power of international kinship.
Colorful, stunning. And maybe toxic and poisonous… This is the Poison Dart Frog. They can range in many bright colors — yellow, blue, orange, and so on. Though, despite their beauty, they can be deadly. The Golden Poison Dart Frog, for example, possesses enough poison to kill 20,000 mice.
🌕 Triton isn’t like other large moons… Triton, the largest moon of Neptune’s 16 moons, is a bit unusual. It is the only large moon in our solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of Neptune’s rotation — otherwise known as a retrograde orbit.
Laniakea, meaning “immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian, is a colossal supercluster encompassing myriad galaxies, including the red dot, which represents our Milky Way galaxy.
So vast, so beautiful. The observable universe, conceptualized on a logarithmic scale to visually depict astronomical objects. Created by Pablo Carlos Budassi in 2012.
Say SPACE! 📸🚀 Astronaut Pikachu travelled to the International Space Station to join ESA Astronaut, Sophie Adenot, as part of a collaboration between ESA and The Pokémon Company International to celebrate the upcoming World Space Week from 4-10 Oct 2026!
Deep-ocean voyaging, celestial navigation — the Polynesians were masters at it. Infamously known for wayfinding, Polynesian people voyaged across the vast blue Pacific Ocean basin using the sun, stars, waves, and nature around them.
Dragon’s Blood Trees are an endemic plant species to Socotra Island, a picturesque island nestled off the coast of Yemen in the Arabian Sea. These fascinating trees can grow to more than 30 feet tall and can live for up to 600 years.
Meet Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy full of mystery. Hoag’s Object is around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy spans about 120,000 light-years wide making it slightly larger than our Milky Way Galaxy.
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express captured beautiful photos of Mars’s South Pole, which depicts an icy, craggy area, dressed in a gradient of purples, pinks, and reds. This area is known as Thyles Rupes — ‘Rupes’ being latin for cliff and ‘Thyles’ being Thule.
NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy around 55 million-light years away in the constellation Virgo may appear as a typical spiral galaxy akin to the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies — but that isn’t necessarily the case for NGC 4698.
Ringing in the eve of the New Year with NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy), an intermediate spiral galaxy around 25 million light-years away, bordering the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs
🪩 Name something prettier… Neptune won’t wait. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI