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Amazing Cassini spacecraft capture.

Artist: Omar Rayyan

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Our newest unofficial video series—deep-sea animals that are cuter than your puppy. 🐶

Amphipods are often mistaken for tiny shrimp. They resemble shrimp in some ways, but are laterally compressed and have no carapace. They’re important food for many fishes, invertebrates, seabirds, and even marine mammals. Amphipods are mostly detritivores (eating decomposing plant and animal parts, as well as feces) and scavengers. ⁠ ⁠ Amphipods in the genus Scina, like the cutie in this video clip, can emit their own light (bioluminescence). Researchers have recorded this light and found that it is among the shortest wavelengths of light produced by any known organism!⁠

Our Solar System from Voyager - December 14th, 1996.

"After taking spectacular pictures of our Solar System's outer planets, Voyager 1 looked back at six planets to take our Solar System's first family portrait. Here Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were all visible across the sky. Each, however, was just a small speck of light, dimmer than many of the stars in the sky."

Pehriska-Ruhpa, Minatarre Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Dance, plate 23 from Volume 2 of ‘Travels in the Interior of North America’, 1844, Karl Bodmer

Medium: aquatint,paper