Wonder of Science

Zoom into the Pillars of Creations with a combination of ground based telescopes and Hubble. These columns of gas and dust that span roughly 4 to 5 light-years are sculpted and eroded by stellar winds from the nearby massive stars. 📽: NASA, ESA/Hubble [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy with Hubble. What looks like a smudge of light to the unaided eye is actually a vast galaxy containing an estimated 1 trillion stars. 📽: ESA/Hubble & NASA [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Cheetahs don't roar, they meow and purr like house cats. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A typical Sunday at Port Miami, the busiest cruise port in the world. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Which way is "up" in this hypnotic animated version of M.C. Escher's "Relativity"? 📽: pixel8studio [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The incredible 360 degree view from the top of Mount Everest on a clear day. 📽: Ben M Jones [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is what a rocket launch looks like from space. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A day passing on planet Earth seen from 36,000 kilometers (22,000 miles) by the satellite Himawari-8. (Watch full screen) [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A magical sunset over a sea of clouds filmed in timelapse by Tristan Heth. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Unsatisfying situations animation by Parallel Studio. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Mechanical principles demonstrated with Lego. 📽: Brick Experiment Channel [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A spectacular reverse cloud waterfall created by fog rolling over Bluff Knoll peak in Western Australia. 📽: Jigar Gosrani [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Fascinating visualization of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk, illustrating how light is warped by its intense gravitational fields. 📽: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

An incredibly detailed image of Mars captured by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, from the north polar ice cap, to the cloud covered Hellas Planitia in the south, the largest impact crater on Mars. 📸: ESA​/​DLR​/​FU Berlin [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is what happens when galaxies collide, a cosmic waltz spanning two billions years visualized with a supercomputer simulation. 📽️: NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

The collision that formed the Moon. A visualization by Dr Robin Canup of the giant-impact hypothesis which suggests the Moon was formed by a collision between Earth and an object the size of Mars 4.5 billion years ago. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

There are more stars in our galaxy than humans who have ever lived. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

A size comparison of 80 moons of Jupiter with Manhattan for scale. 📽: MetaBallStudios [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

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 [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

Spectacular lightning storm over Western Australia filmed in timelapse by photographer Geoff Green. [ 网页链接 ↗ ]

An animated glimpse into the complexity of the human body. 📽️: SciePro [ 网页链接 ↗ ]