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Black-tip reef shark
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Jan 2016
A school of tropical clupeid fish exhibit synchronized behaviour to keep a healthy distance from a …
Pork tapeworm
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Dec 2015
This coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm – Taenia solium – shows t…
Pluto’s largest moon, Charon
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 17 Nov 2015
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet o…
Veil Nebula
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 2 Nov 2015
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small section of the debris of one of the best-known s…
New species of mites found in Taiwan
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Nov 2015
Gahrliepia (Gateria) lieni is one of three new species of mites found in Taiwan.
Stinging hydroid
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 19 Oct 2015
An expedition to the Philippines revealed more than 100 marine species new to science.
Sea sapphire
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Oct 2015
To understand how sea sapphires – part of the copepod family – change from transparent colours to i…
Comet Lovejoy
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 30 Sep 2015
Comet Lovejoy sails through the solar system in a green haze leaving cometary dust in its wake.
NASA confirms that liquid water flows on today’s Mars
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 28 Sep 2015
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that …
Bullet Through Lemon, 1955.
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 11 Sep 2015
This image, taken in 1955, is part of the exhibition Revelations: Experiments in Photography at Med…
The oldest cheloniellid arthropod
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 10 Sep 2015
The image displays the oldest representative of the cheloniellid arthropods.
X-ray of angelfish & surgeonfish, 1896.
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 1 Sep 2015
X-ray of angelfish & surgeonfish, 1896.
Rosette Nebula
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 20 Aug 2015
Measuring 50 light years in diameter, the large, round Rosette Nebula is found on the edge of a mol…
Orion Nebula
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 18 Aug 2015
One of the most well-known astronomical objects in our universe is the Orion Nebula and this image …
Aurora Panorama
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 13 Aug 2015
The vivid green Northern Lights dance above Lyngenfjord, the longest fjord in Troms county in Norwa…
Sea slug
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 7 Aug 2015
A recent expedition to the Philippines revealed more than 100 marine species new to science.
Thor’s Helmet
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 4 Aug 2015
The distinctive shape of the nebula NGC 2359 has led to it also being known as Thor’s Helmet, resem…
The world’s largest salt flat
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 3 Aug 2015
Luminous purple sky mirrored in the thin sheet of water across the world’s largest salt flat in Sal…
Lagoon Nebula
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 30 Jul 2015
The stellar nursery of the Lagoon Nebula lies in the constellation of Sagittarius is situated some …
Sea snail
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 20 Jul 2015
A recent expedition to the Philippines revealed more than 100 marine species new to science.
