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Captured 2024 by dustin_farrell

📍Auster Emperor Penguin Colony, East Antarctica
📸 @ bencallahannn_

Once one of the richest cities in the world during the 1910s from its diamond supply, the city was abandoned in the 1930s after the mines ran dry. All that remains is a ghostly surreal display.

This image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula is a cosmic collab between @ NASAWebb and @ NASAChandraXray. Chandra contributed X-ray data—the purple blotches within the dusty center of the nebula—to this image snapped by Webb in infrared.

X-rays are energetic beams of light that can break through thick gas and dust, which help scientists study the high-energy activity in the region.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/SAO/CXC; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major

Winner of the Q1 Erie, Colorado photo contest: This photo was captured early morning in Boulder County, Colorado by @ ericlillard

136 Fahrenheit and 99% humidity. Humans can only last 10 minutes unprotected and risk drowning from condensation building up inside their lungs.

Would you try to make it to the top for that once in a lifetime view?

Deep within the rock, iron-reducing bacteria can dissolve those coatings away, leaving bleached halos in otherwise rust-red rock. The contrast is a byproduct of microbial metabolism. 

Australian salt lakes are dry for part of the year, they then move through different colour stages before reaching that rare golden “egg season” moment. The golden hues don’t stick around for long, so timing is everything.

They have both male and female reproductive organs, so when breeding, 2 flatworms “sword-fight”, determining which one will carry the eggs.

The Sahara sits on top of one of the world’s largest fossil water reserves, ancient water, locked underground since the last Ice Age. Am Alma lake is proof it’s still there.

📸 @ graatjeweber via insta