French PDO Cheese Map.

Artist: Omar Rayyan

Lieutenant governor of Virginia ,Winsome Sears

Omaha Beach

COSMOS: Possible Worlds 2020

The Space Shuttle Atlantis seen in silhouette during solar transit, May 12, 2009.

(NASA)

"I dream of Jeannie"

Blood-belly comb jelly my beloved ❤️ 🩸

Meet Lampocteis cruentiventer, the bloodybelly comb jelly. This deep sea ctenophore was first collected in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, in 1979.

Scientists believe the bloody-belly's red belly helps mask bioluminescent light from the prey it consumes. A predator with a glowing gut could easily become prey.

The genus name Lampocteis derives from the Greek roots for “brilliant comb,” referring to the bright iridescence diffracted from the animal’s comb rows.

Love to sea it 🌊

Hermes and his mother Maia (part of a larger scene showing an assembly of the gods).  Detail from Side B of an Attic red-figure belly-amphora, attributed to the Nikoxenos-Painter; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich.

my life has only known joy since i learned of elysia chlorotica

E X Q U I S I T E

Eastern Emerald Elysia (Elysia chlorotica), family Plakobranchidae, found along the East Coast of the United States

This creature engages in kleptoplasty, taking the chloroplasts from the algae that it eats, and using the chloroplasts for the waste products they create though photosynthesis. Its kind of a... solar powered sea slug!

These sea slugs are not nudibranch, but are in a different order of gastropods.

image via: Views of Elysia chlorotica from Martha’s Vineyard. Figure 15 of Krug et al., 2016, Zootaxa 4148:1

image via: Karen N. Pelletreau et al.   http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097477

The Ion Tail of New Comet SWAN via NASA https://ift.tt/3bNGnov