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treeporn:

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nprfreshair:

Holy Melville.  - Heidi

kqedscience:

The real-life Moby Dick: Incredibly rare white humpback whale spotted off coast of Norway

”A white whale has been causing a splash after being spotted swimming in a pod of humpbacks by a British maritime engineer.

Dan Fisher, 32, was on a boat trip to Svalbard in Norway when he noticed a giant white hump rise from the water.

Rushing up a mast to get a better look, he quickly realised he was witnessing one of nature’s rarest sights — a white whale, just like the iconic Moby Dick in the novel by American author Herman Melville.”

ecocides:

Cygnus OB2 is a star cluster in the Milky Way that contains many hot, massive young stars.

This composite image of Cygnus OB2 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Spitzer (red), and optical data from the Isaac Newton Telescope (orange).

Astronomers would like to better understand how this and other star factories like it form and evolve. (Read more)

| image: NASA/CXC/SAO

(via At the Limit - Truthdig)

(via Sath Comunicador Visual Spray convertido en Arte)