Цветущие среди облаков рододендроны. Большой Тхач и красота неба. Фотограф Василий Яковлев.Россия (Екатеринбург).

Rhododendrons blooming among the clouds. Bolshoi Thach and the beauty of the sky. Photographer Vasily Yakovlev. Russia (Ekaterinburg).

There was too much traffic today, and an ICE agent deployed a tear gas canister in traffic in response.

Tarantulas have paws!!!

lil beans!!!!

a rainy late summer afternoon

these gifs were created from my own personal footage. please link back to this post if you use them.

Over 500,000 light years across, NGC 6872 (bottom left) is a truly enormous barred spiral galaxy. At least 5 times the size of our own large Milky Way, NGC 6872 is the largest known spiral galaxy. It is located about 200 million light-years away, towards the southern constellation Pavo, the Peacock.

This Picture shows the Milky Way flowing over its future spectator, ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).

Focussing back down on Earth, the ELT will scrutinise the pristine night sky above the Chilean Atacama Desert with unprecedented precision. It will help us learn more about the close environment of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It will analyse the atmospheres of exoplanets, answer questions about the births and deaths of stars we yet cannot even begin to ask, and explore how galaxies form and evolve, among many other exciting questions. We eagerly await the mysteries of the cosmos the world’s biggest eye on the sky will unveil. 

" It's not often we get to see detached solar prominences, certainly not ones that sustain for this long. This time lapse is over the course of 1 hour compressed down into seconds. Super heated plasma is held in place, high above the chromosphere of the sun. Magnetically locked into place by unseen forces, waiting to be released. I also capture other areas of the sun, including a grouping of highly active sun spots that littered the face of the sun."

Looking for a kiss? You probably shouldn’t ask the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). This jawless fish has a suction-cup mouth ringed with hooked teeth and survives off the blood of its prey. It uses its sharp tongue to pierce flesh and secretes an enzyme to prevent blood from clotting. Growing up to 2 ft (0.6 m) long, this species is a parasite that feeds on fish and marine mammals. Typically found in the Atlantic Ocean, lampreys introduced to America’s Great Lakes in the early 20th century have become an invasive species.