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These are some of the earliest full-color images of Antarctica, taken circa 1915 by photographer Frank Hurley. They document the infamous voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

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Artist Giovanni Longo used reclaimed wood to build a series of beautiful, sorta spooky animal skeletons.

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Are these goopy, 3-D printed monster shoe things what we’ll all be wearing in 2090 when our alien masters release us from our body heat-harvesting liquid tanks for our daily walk through the dystopian hellscape of a ravished Earth? Almost certainly.

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In other weird goopy news: this is a photo of sand dunes on Mars, taken by the space camera HiRISE.

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NASA showed off the capabilities of its Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite with this image, which shows the various wavelengths of light it can detect.

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Yep, it’s a Lego car. Yep, it actually drives. 500,000 bricks put to good use.

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Imgur user ScienceLlama applied a tilt-shift photography effect to photos of the universe, creating eye-popping images like this, of the Crab Nebula.

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This is either a mobile hotel where you can safely watch polar bears, or an ingenious trap for humans designed by the bears. I will assume the latter until the former is proven.

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The Earth Wind Map is a nearly real-time look at which way the wind is blowing anywhere. The interactive tool pulls NOAA/National Weather Service data every three hours.
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