Wild flower next to a crop field
Abandoned hut with a dead tree in the countryside
Ginkgo leaves shoots
🌼 Some plant and landscape photos. The fields are now blooming with flowers, while the trees grow back their leaves in the countryside and the parks
#photography #naturephotography #france
Two white storks (Ciconia ciconia). One of them is landing on a lamp post, scaring another one away
Black kite (Milvus migrans) landing on an excavator. A crow (Corvus corone) watches the bird of prey
Black kite (Milvus migrans) soaring, with clouds in the background
Wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) behind a fence
🪶🦎Another Sunday spring walk through the surroundings of Thionville. During the last weeks I saw that many storks and black kites gather around a small dumpster in the countryside. In the town parks, wall lizards bask on the Sun
#photography #birdphotography #birds #france
Drone view of hot lava streams over dark black lava landscape. In the distance is a mountain with a patch of sunset brightness on the horizon. Blueish smoke rises.
A drone view over a river estuary where there are pretty channels meeting a paler grey area with visible streams and ripples. Looks a bit like a wave breaking.
A view over a colour river estuary with pale cream and blue streams and channels, with some brown and gold sand banks visible.
A view over a hot bubbling pool with some colourful run-off. It looks a bit like a burning comet falling through the air, an eye with tears or lashes streaming from it, or a jellyfish with long tentacles. The pool is blue and the run off area is pale pink and green, with some green grasses and red rocks surrounding it.
Celebrating five years of drone ownership, renewing my flyer ID today with 38/40 on the test (yay!).
Here's a few of my favourite drone photographs from the past few years from #Iceland. Such a fun addition to my trips there :)
#DJIAir2S #DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Thuringian Forest early amniotes
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#digitalart #perm #palaeontology #artandscience #sketchbook
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars
#Mars 🔭🧪
www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
a figure from the paper showing 4 modes of locomotion for archaeopteryx A) flying B) perching C) gliding D) climbing
great new #openaccess paper on archaeopteryx by o'konnor and clark 🐦 they explore the animal's ecology and modes of locomotion, offering new insight into archaeopteryx's lifestyle!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(art commissioned at the chicago field museum)
two views of the holotype skull of the brazilian spinosaurid irritator challengeri
guess who's going home at last 🎉 #IrritatorBelongstoBR #DecoloniseScience
🎨🌋🌅A todos nos gusta un buen atardecer, pero en el siglo XIX durante algunos años fueron mucho más intensos y coloridos debido a erupciones volcánicas. Quedaron inmortalizados en la pintura de su tiempo. ¿Qué relación tiene con la dispersión atmosférica? Lo explicamos en este 🧵
The first test flight of a Europa-1 first stage (F1), a repurposed British Blue Streak missile, from Woomera, Australia, 5 June 1964.
Launch of Ariane 4 V22 on 15 June 1988 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, carrying Meteosat-3, PAS (PAN AM SAT) 1 and Amsat P3C.
Launch of Vega VV13 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 November 2018, carrying the Mohammed VI-B Earth observation satellite for the Kingdom of Morocco.
Ariane 6 liftoff on 4 November 2025, launching the Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
From Europa and Ariane 1, to Ariane 6 and Vega-C, we have a long history of Europe's launchers 🧡
The first Europa flight took place on 5 June 1964.
Nowadays, ESA provides Europe with autonomous access to space through the Ariane and Vega launcher families, which will continue to evolve.
¡Ya está aquí! 🥰🥰🥰
Tenemos pollito 🥹🥹🥹
Voy a ver si se ve en el vídeo como sale. Os vais a jartar de fotos de pichones, aviso 😅
Sunny but chilly morning, anyway a pair of Ringed Plover at the nest for you, coloured pencil and gouache
#art #birds #birdart #birdsoftheworld #drawing #nature #wildlife
Nice new (peer-reviewed) analysis of the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based astronomical observations. By Olivier Hainault from @eso.org 🔭https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09427
📡🛰️ Cantidad de satélites naturales conocidos de los planetas, TNOs y asteroides del sistema solar
🗓️ Abril 2026
· Planetas: 455 (+21)
👉 ¡¡7 nuevos para Saturno y 14 para Júpiter!! 👈
· NEOs: 115 (+1)
· Asteroides: 368 (+1)
· TNOs: 152 (+1)
www.infosondas.com/infografias-...
The Milky Way stretches brightly across the night sky above two telescope domes at an observatory
Our La Silla Observatory is a front-row seat to the Milky Way!
In the foreground we see the Danish 1.54-metre telescope, followed by the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope and our New Technology Telescope in the background.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2214a/
This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.
Atlas on bark, Jasius/GettyImages
Wing tips looking like red reptilian heads
Did you know, the Atlas moth, the largest insect living in Hong Kong, in Cantonese (蛇頭蛾) translates as "snakehead butterfly", given its characteristic cobra-like eyespot & batesian mimicry. It looks very dissapointed.
In a forest of conifers, a yellow-headed Lambeosaurus magnicristatus raises its red-margined cockscomb crest above a herd of brown-and red striped Corythosaurus, with its semicircular crest. They're all marching who-knows-where, and who even knows how the lambeosaur got there? He sure doesn't. Both these skulls should be basically public domain photographs, so far as I can tell.
They're moving in herds...they do move in herds.
Lambeosaurus in a sea of Corythosaurus going who-knows where in the Dinosaur Park Formation.
This post was visible on patreon.com/cw/yee-qi for $2 subscribers last week!
#paleoart #SciArt #art #artist #paleontology #artistonbluesky #originalart
Meet Bruce, the “beak-jousting” parrot who beat out all his rivals to become alpha male. Kea parrot missing his upper beak “has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species.” arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Abubilla al final del día ♥️
The Orion Integrity spacecraft afloat on the Pacific Ocean, backlit.
à contre-jour
Credit: NASA/Kevin Davis
images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-...
#Artemis
Artemis III Moon Rocket Core Stage on its way of the assembly facility.
NASA moved the core stage, or the largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the crewed Artemis III mission in 2027 from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility to the agency’s Pegasus barge in New Orleans on April 20.
images.nasa.gov/details/MAF_... #Artemis
BICHARRACOsaurus. Con un par. peerj.com/articles/209...
One of the most famous mosasaurs, Tylosaurus proriger, submerges after taking a breath. It is dark above and light below, as tentatively suggested by some palaeocolour data. The challenges of interpreting scaly reptile palaeocolour, and the tiny scraps of colour data we have for this animal, preclude much confidence in chromatic interpretations of this species, however. Also, if you stare at this long enough, you'll see a few sharks. No foolin'.
Been thinking marine-reptiley thoughts today. Here's one of my latest #paleoart efforts along that line: Tylosaurus proriger. The colour is based on fossil colour data, although it's far from certain that this animal was black and countershaded.
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AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...
🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a renewed view of the Trifid Nebula, a scene it first observed in 1997.
🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
An astronomical image featuring the backdrop of the dark night sky with a faint grey-blue speckle at the centre. The nebulous cloud has the shape of a four-leaf flower. Four orange laser beams are pointing to it.
This isn't a scene from #StarWars.
What you're looking at is the Tarantula Nebula. While those beams come from the lasers installed on the telescopes that comprise our VLTI.
But why are we sending lasers into the sky? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2616a/
🔭 🧪
📷 A. Berdeu/ESO
Digital Drawing. The bright, ghost-like figure of a giant moa walks through the dim forest interior, framed by trees to the left and right. The ground is covered in ferns, and a layer of moss has grown on the trees. A few branches hang at the top of the frame.
The Forest Giant
NEW VIDEO OF EARTHSET TAKEN BY REID WISEMAN WITH HIS CELL PHONE DURING ARTEMIS II!!!! THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Drawing showing the biodiversity from the Permian of Mallorca, in particular from the Port des Canonge Formation. From left to right, and from top to bottom: - Shoot and tree of a plant, possibly Feysia sp. - Storm clouds bring pouring rain to a river valley at the end of the dry season - Conchostracans similar to Triops (representing the ichnogenus Cruziana) move through the bottom of a pool - A mother varanopid and her offspring (representing the ichnogenus Dromopus) rest on a branch - A roachoid insect comes out from a burrow (representing the ichnofossil Palaeophycus tubularis) - Tramuntanasaurus tiai eating some horsetails - Early synapsids of different types (representing the ichnigenus Dimetropus) gather at a waterhole in the dry season - A gorgonopsian tries to catch a Tramuntanasaurus, with the latter escaping by shedding its tail - A large moradisaurine walks through a lush riverside in the rainy season. Smaller reptiles and insects appear nearby
🌲Permian Mallorca🐾🦎
During the Permian period Mallorca was located on the Equator and was not an island, but part of the mainland. Some terrestrial creatures are known from that time, mostly from the tracks they left behind
#paleoart #Permian #Mallorca
🧵Thread for additional explanation
