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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein linktr.ee/wonderofscience
The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) uses its long proboscis while hovering in midair to feed on flowers. 📽️: Mike Tyurin
There are more stars in our galaxy than humans who have ever lived.
Watch an iron nail get melted by 1000 amps of electric current, an example of Joule heating, where conductors resist current flow and release energy as heat, and why toaster elements glow and fuses blow. 📽️: Tavoromann | CC BY-SA 4.0
The spectacular sight of 1,000 ostriches on the move in South Africa. 📽️: Simon Faragher | CC BY-SA 4.0
Incredible view from space as the ISS orbits over glowing city lights and a vibrant aurora.
Slow motion footage of a hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) feeding. This 60-second clip captures just one second of real time, slowed to 1/67th speed at 2000fps. 📽️: HopefullyUsefulContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0
Close-up of a firefly flashing. 📽️: Atomic Tangerine / CC BY 3.0
A stunningly beautiful jellyfish (Crossota sp.) spotted by an ROV at a depth of 2.3 miles near the Mariana Trench. 📽️: NOAA OER
How the International Space Station was assembled. 📽️: NASA Johnson
Beautiful view of Earth from space taken from the International Space Station.
Riding a space shuttle's solid rocket booster to space. Sound on 🔊
Feeding dive of a yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) in Otago Peninsula, New Zealand. 📽️: Tawaki Project / CC BY 3.0
Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. 📽️: David Rogers
The “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope. 📸: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home." — Carl Sagan Milky Way over La Silla Observatory. 📽️: ESO/S. Brunier
Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world. 📽️: David Iliff | CC BY-SA 3.0
An astronaut's view of Earth during a spacewalk.
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. 📽: NASA Goddard
Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and seemingly random motion. 📽: Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations
Metronomes started randomly synchronize after a short period of time as they influence each other through the side-to-side motion of their shared base. 📽: UCLA Physics & Astronomy
The "Screaming Gummy Bear" chemistry demonstration involves dropping a gummy bear into a test tube of molten potassium chlorate (KClO₃), where the sugar reacts violently with the released oxygen producing bursts of flame and gas. 📽️: DoktorKlawonn | CC BY 3.0
The fascinating way soap bubbles freeze. 📽️: Lorie Shaull | CC BY 2.0
Timelapse of a "Glory of Texas" cactus (Thelocactus bicolor) blooming. 📽️: Petr Vodička / CC BY-SA 4.0
Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018. (view fullscreen) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt
Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets. Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue