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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.

The Poison Dart Frog, settled on a green leaf, facing the right of the photo in an upward position. The frog’s skin is stunning, with blues and blacks in the form of irregular shapes and patterns.The Golden Poison Dart Frog, settled on the ground, encircled by green plants, with golden/yellow skin, big black eyes, looking upwards to the left of the photo.

🌕 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.

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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!

Image Credit: ESA/NASA – S. Adenot

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.

Image Credit: © Matjaz Krivic

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.

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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.

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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: NGC 6946 (aka the Fireworks Galaxy)
 • Type: Intermediate spiral galaxy
 • Constellation: Cepheus/Cygnus border
 • Distance: ~25 million light-years
 • Discovery: 1798 by William Herschel

Image Description: The image displays the galaxy in a field of scattered background stars. The overall color palette is dominated by shades of purple and blue, with hints of pink and yellow from the stars.

Media Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSSL/R.Soria et al, Optical: AURA/Gemini OBs.

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