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Amazing Aurora Borealis
An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, Arctic and Antarctic regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude…
Sea cucumber
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. Sea cucumbers are found on…
Tsunami Cloud Barreling Down Lake Michigan Beach
This is not a picture of a tsunami, but instead a cloud that kind of looks like one — a Shelf Cloud. The picture was taken off the shore of…
What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space? Watch!
International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield was recently asked by grade 10 Lockview high school students Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner to demonstrate “what happens when you wring out a waterlogged…
Waitomo Glowworm Cave
Glowworm is the common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence. They may sometimes resemble worms, but all are insects. Wikipedia In…
Insane F5 Tornado in Canada Video
The Elie, Manitoba Tornado was an F5 tornado that struck the town of Elie, Manitoba, Canada, (40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Winnipeg) on June 22, 2007. While several houses were…
Amazing Mammatus Clouds
Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning “mammary cloud” or “breast cloud”), is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The…
Aerogel: The lightest solid material on the planet!
It is known as frozen smoke and it is the lightest solid material on the planet. Aerogel insulates space suits, makes tennis rackets stronger and could be used one day…
Cordyceps: Attack of the Killer Fungi
Cordyceps fungi invades its hosts (mainly arthropods), and its mycelium eventually replaces the host’s tissue. Once the arthropod is dead, cylindrical or branching growths emerge from the creature’s dead body….
Superfast Black Hole Spins at Nearly the Speed of Light
A superfast black hole nearly 60 million light-years away appears to be pushing the ultimate speed limit of the universe, a new study says. According to National Geographic, for the…
Eruption of Sarychev Volcano seen from Space
Amazing image from space! Eruption of Sarychev Volcano in the Kuril Islands, Russia going through its early stage of eruption, taken from the orbit of the International Space Station in…
The Mysterious Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are a series of geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in Peru. It is the largest work of art in the world! The lines are shallow designs…
Planet Earth Seen From Space
See our home from Space! These are real footages of Planet Earth taken high up in the space complied in a single video. Please spare some of your time and…
Annular Solar Eclipse – May 20, 2012
This amazing clip is taken in in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States on May 20, 2012, showing the Annular Solar Eclipse. Millions have watched the amazing planetary spectacle that delights…
750-Legged Millipede Found, Becomes World’s Leggiest Animal!
The white millipede or lllacme plenipes is already the leggiest creature on earth, but the latest found has set the record. Discovered in a small area of Northern California by…
Metal that Melts in your Hand!
Gallium has a melting temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit, which is basically room temperature. If you hold this metal it will begin melting in your hand.. The spoon on…
Felix Baumgartner Jumps from Space, Watch the full video here!
This is Awesome! Felix Baumgartner jumped off the edge of the space, from 127,000 feet of altitude all the way back down to Earth, breaking some world records. Watch as…
Cool Fire Trick, This simple trick will make you say Wow!
Try this one and you’ll be blown away! You can amaze your friends with this simple fire trick. All you need is just a lighter and a candle. This isn’t…
Magnificent Solar Eruption
Three of NASA’s solar observatories caught an incredible solar eruption. Ejected material from the corona shot away from the sun at 900 miles per second! On August 31, 2012 a…
The Smartest Animals in the World
For centuries, the idea of intelligent animals struck most people as ridiculous. But not any more – the latest science reveals that animals are a lot smarter than we thought….
The Legends of Bigfoot
The clip above examines the legends of Bigfoot, a creature described as half-man/half-ape that allegedly stalks remote woodlands around the world, and suggests the creature may have connection to an…
Earth: The Making of a Planet
Take a photographic journey thorough time from the violent birth of our planet four and a half billion years ago, through ice-ages, massive volcanic eruptions and the dinosaurs’ reign to…
