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11 of NASA’s most out-of-this-world illustrations
This crocodile daddy giving 100 babies a ride puts your carpool to shame
Crisp Hubble snapshot shows powerful new Jupiter storms
West Coast wildfire smoke is visible from outer space
A rare ‘cosmic butterfly’ unfurls its wings in this telescoped image
Scientists strapped tiny cameras to beetles to get a bug’s-eye view of the world
These ultra-black fish camouflage with the darkness of the deep sea
This ominous image shows the birth of a planet
This photo confirms that your tongue is basically a microbe party
Meet the highest mouse on Earth
To remain hidden, these beetles sparkle like gems
What looks like a deer, is the size of a rabbit, and was just photographed for the first time in decades?
This fluffy ball contains the story of the universe
This seagull-shaped nebula is a hangout for baby stars
This new gold nanomaterial is so thin, it’s considered 2D
Redshirts on the red planet: Mars is sporting a giant Star Trek insignia
A 50-million-year-old school of fish is etched forever in this rare fossil
This spider’s exoskeleton looks like a helmet for a very tiny alien
This stellar Crab Nebula image is the perfect way to celebrate Hubble’s birthday
Two newly discovered birds are a product of Indonesia’s ‘evolutionary playground’
Say ‘aloha!’ to this not-actually-extinct Hawaiian flower
Glowing millipede genitalia give scientists a leg up in the lab
Dragonglass is real, even if white walkers (hopefully) aren’t
Megapixels: North Carolina’s ‘Pollenpocalypse’ is nothing to sneeze at—but you will anyway
Megapixels: NASA created these alien clouds to study our atmosphere
Megapixels: An epic wildebeest crossing, a really hungry fox, and more Smithsonian Photo Contest finalists
Megapixels: CRISPR turned these lizards into ghosts
Megapixels: Mini frog, two frog, pumpkin frog, new frog
Megapixels: Asteroid Bennu is …exploding?
These clone-like, Colombian spiders are named for Star Wars’ Storm Troopers
Megapixels: This butterfly’s wings are transparently toxic
Megapixels: What a sonic boom looks like
Megapixels: Jupiter’s roiling clouds are a thing of beauty
Megapixels: This fossilized spider’s eyes are still glowing 110 million years later
Megapixels: These tentacle-nosed catfish are aquatic superheroes
Megapixels: The polar vortex looks even colder from space
Megapixels: This swamp is full of frozen gator snouts
MEGAPIXELS: A fiery end for the old Tappan Zee Bridge
Megapixels: Behold this giant spinning ice disk
Megapixels: Two stars in a fight to the death
MEGAPIXELS: This is a Martian selfie from the InSight lander
This is a seal with an eel stuck up its nose
MEGAPIXELS: Doctors can now see everything inside you at once
MEGAPIXELS: This strange creature isn’t a spider or a dog, but it sure looks like both
MEGAPIXELS: Spooky animal x-rays are exactly as cool as you’d imagine
Megapixels: A moth drinks tears from a bird’s eye
MEGAPIXELS: For a technicolor nightmare, see this fish in high definition
Megapixels: A rover snaps a pic as it hops along the surface of an asteroid
Megapixels: Hurricane Florence races the sun to reach the East Coast in this epic satellite photo
Megapixels: Watch Saturn’s hexagonal clouds swirl
The World’s Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine
Megapixels: A Parasitic Worm Infects An Ant
Megapixels: Monkeys Take A Ride On The World’s Largest Rodent
Megapixels: An Astronaut Readjusts To Earth’s Gravity
Megapixels: The James Webb Space Telescope Gets Chilled to 400 Degrees Below Zero
Megapixels: A Monkey Controls a Robot Hand With its Mind
Megapixels: Space Shuttle Enterprise Gets Grabbed By a Crane
Megapixels: Blowing Up a 1,585-Foot Bridge
Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
Turning People Into Plastic
German Physicist Flies First Manned Electric Multicopter
Visitors Enjoy a Nuclear Amusement Park in Germany
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees
A Cyborg Captures Photos To Highlight How Surveillance Has Permeated Our Society