Jura, Switzerland

by Jason Parker

Devils Spring System, Florida

Perseid Meteors over Mount Shasta : Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Perseus. That is why the meteor shower that peaks later this week is known as the Perseids – the meteors all appear to came from a radiant toward Perseus. In terms of parent body, though, the sand-sized debris that makes up the Perseids meteors come from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet follows a well-defined orbit around our Sun, and the part of the orbit that approaches Earth is superposed in front of the Perseus. Therefore, when Earth crosses this orbit, the radiant point of falling debris appears in Perseus. Featured here, a composite image containing over 60 meteors from last August’s Perseids meteor shower shows many bright meteors that streaked over Mount Shasta, California, USA. This year’s Perseids holds promise to be the best meteor shower of the year. via NASA

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Serene Saturn by Ian Regan (rotated for Tumblr viewing)

Taken by the Cassini spacecraft on October 28, Regan combined 21 total images (7 each for red, blue, and green filters) to create this mindblowing mosaic.

View the whole image and a little behind-the-scenes look on how this mosaic was made here.

Floating Dreams at Totally Thames

A major installation by Ik-Joong Kang, one of South Korea’s most renowned and celebrated multimedia artists, Floating Dreams is a compelling, large-scale installation situated in the centre of the River Thames by Millennium Bridge. Constructed from 500 drawings and illuminated from within, the three-storey-high lantern structure acts as a memorial to the millions displaced and divided during the Korean War (1950-53), and a poignant symbol of hope for the reunification of North and South Korea.

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Unbelievably gorgeous moonrise timelapse over the Himalayas