https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfadNyZgl2s
A fairly internet-breaking 360 degree, 8K time-lapse of the Aurora Borealis over Fairbanks Alaska during the lunar eclipse at the end of January.
You’ll be wanting several viewings at full screen with music up and plenty of mouse dragging to peruse the atmospheric eye candy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hWbnigyxg
Remix and video artist John D. ‘Melodysheep’ Boswell offers a compelling and inspirational review of the last 13.8 billion years of history. To wit:
Starting with the big bang and culminating in the appearance of homo sapiens, this experience follows the unfolding of time at 22 million years per second, adhering closely to current scientific understanding.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, David Attenborough.
Three images from the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year competition.
Above: Mobula rays migrating along the coast of Baja, California by Fillipo Borghi; a BSA M20 motorbike in the WW2 wreck of the SS Thistlegorm in the Red Sea off Egypt (Anders Nyberg); two male tompots face off over mating rights (Henley Spiers); a ‘spy hopping’ humpback whale and a sea otter off Shetland by Greg Lecoeur
MORE: Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest (The Atlantic)
The creaking vibration of 45mm of new black ice recorded by Henrik Trygg on the frozen surface of Lissma Kvarnsjö – a lake outside Stockholm last December.
The ephemeral artworks of British land-artist James Brunt; multiples of natural materials found in forests and beaches near his home in Yorkshire organised into meditative spirals, rings and other geometries which he photographs, then abandons to dissolve, fall apart or blow away.
Mmf.
Tree Mountain by environmental artist Agnes Denes – part art installation, part remediation project – a 38m high ‘mountain’ in Finland covered in 11,000 trees planted in a Golden Ratio configuration.
The artist explains more here.
Two 1998 observations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa by the Galileo spacecraft stitched together by NASA engineer Kevin Gill. He geeks off thus:
Processed using low resolution color images (IR, Green, Violet) from March 29 1998 overlaying higher resolution unfiltered images taken September 26 1998. Map projected to Mercator, scale is approximately 225.7 meters per pixel, representing a span of about 1,500 kilometers.
Some of the world’s most unusual and distinctive caterpillars, documented by scientist and photographer Igor Siwanowicz.
Swirling cloud belts on the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, captured by NASA’s Juno probe.
The annual migration of Siberian seagulls toward their winter home on the sacred Indian rivers of Ganga and Yamuna, photographed in the early morning light at Delhi by Navin Vatsa.
