Spirit Encounters Soft Ground on Mars
Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA picked by kakana 5 months ago

Do underground oceans vent through the tiger stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus? Long features dubbed tiger stripes are known to be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon's South Pole and creating Saturn's mysterious E-ring. picked by kakana 5 months ago

Is Michael Jackson smiling down on the people of New York?

Some locals seem to think so picked by suebe 5 months ago

Rather amazing optical illusion. This is not a picture with blue and green spirals. Both spirals are the same color. I had to check picked by bernardblack 5 months ago

Dolphin fetus for those who didn't see it 2 years ago. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago

A small spiral galaxy is caught between two elliptical galaxies, in a cluster called the Hickson Compact Group 90. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Amazing photos from the Russian Antarctic station. picked by suebe 6 months ago

A Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis, dives for a snack. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Kirlian Photography picked by bornbad 6 months ago

The Aurora Seen from Space picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Baby sloths in a box picked by suebe 6 months ago

Human body without skin picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Baby squid captured with a light field micrograph
Celeste Nelson picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Ants taking apart a dead fly. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Water spouts off Anguilla.

Click image for more photos. picked by suebe 6 months ago

Humans - are we really so different than other animals? picked by bernardblack 6 months ago

Updated photo from JoshSF49 post.In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, from Florida. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

The Hubble camera is about to be replaced with the mission taking off hopefully tomorrow (May 11) at 2pm in Florida. This is the last pretty picture from the camera before they shut it down until the new camera comes on line in late August or September. K 4-55 is nearly 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. picked by equinox 7 months ago

Now that is an ICEberg!
photo by Blamstur picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Map made entirely out of Flickr geodata. Each dot represents one photo. Click for larger view. More information on the project by David Crandall here. picked by suckersklub 7 months ago

Hard to fit this one in a category, isn't it? picked by meggysue 7 months ago

Welcome to the ever-evolving exhibition of Jock Cooper's Fractal Art. A noteworthy recent addition to the site is the Zoomable Fractal Gallery; an interactive playground that allows one to zoom through six levels in each quadrant of a given fractal image. As always, the newer images are in the highest gallery numbers, and new images are added several times a week. picked by tryweekly 7 months ago

Chaoscope Fractals picked by tryweekly 7 months ago

How to Pet My Cat / How Not To Pet My Cat picked by TheAnt314 8 months ago

Chernobyl - The Aftermath Between 1989-1990, a notable increase in genetic malformations in animals was noted, in particular in calves and pigs. The following year, almost 400 deformed animals were born, but they only lived for a few hours. In 1990, Photographer Igor Kostin took photographs of these mutations, including this deformed calf, and sent them to Mikhail Gorbachev to encourage him set u... read full post picked by meggysue 8 months ago