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The moon over Earth's horizon, as seen from the ISS

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The newfound species seen here is one of about 1,300 known types of tardigrades. It was discovered in moss growing on dead tree trunks in Germany’s Black Forest. Far too small to see with the unaided eye, this creature is among billions of life-forms on the forest floor that are essential to the health of the planet. Magnified 2,400 times.

THESE TINY CREATURES ARE MARVELOUS

PHOTOGRAPH BY OLIVER MECKES AND NICOLE OTTOWA

Fungi like this Resinicium bicolor—shown magnified 7,000 times—start breaking down dead trees by digesting lignin, the complex compound that helps form woody cell walls in plants.

Scales of silica cover the single-celled body of a testate amoeba. These types of amoebas are named for the hard shells they create, possibly for protection against environmental changes within the forest litter.

Resembling a fairy’s gift basket, the fruiting body of a slime mold, magnified 400 times, releases spores from its perch on woody debris draped in fungal filaments. Slime molds feast on other microbes found in decaying plant

Some mycorrhizal fungi make their homes inside plant cells, as seen in this cross section of a European blueberry root. This allows soil residents of very different sizes to exchange nutrients—helping the forest

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Illustration of a black hole destroying a star

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Mysterious crater deposits on Mars

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The dune fields of Hellas Planitia on Mars

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The moon's surface as seen by Orion, which is set to return to Earth and conclude the Artemis I mission on December 11 at 12:40 PM Eastern time.

Watch the splashdown live on NASA TV: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

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Oh, hello there.

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The moon's surface, from Artemis I's final close flyby before its journey back to Earth.

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The Perseverance Rover takes its first Martian regolith samples.

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The full moon as seen by the International Space Station on December 8, 2022.

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Batik Trilobita

Animated batik patterns inspired from Permian crinoid and Trilobite fossils found in Indonesia

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Snoring hummingbird 💤

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Globular cluster NGC 362

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An infrared view of Saturn

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Saturn captured by Hubble on November 20, 1990.