DAMN

The wolf moon.

Golden Saturn

“It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.” — Rumi

Jupiter in infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. Astronomers use these filters (and others not shown here) to study differences in cloud thickness, altitude, and chemical makeup.

Get a leg up on the weekend with these colossal limbs! Snapped circa 1899, this archival photo from the Museum’s digital collections depicts a Museum preparator standing beside the fossilized limbs of dinosaurs discovered in Wyoming. The larger bones belong to sauropods, while the smaller bones belong to a theropod—likely Allosaurus.