Watching A Snowflake Grow Seems Almost Magical–the Six-sided Shape, The Symmetry, The Way Every Arm

Elaborate Salt Labyrinths by Japanese Artist Motoi Yamamoto

Pulling apart duct tape causes chemical bonds to break which indirectly gives rise to a faint blue glow in an effect called triboluminescence 

Fata Morgna

A Superior Mirage that comes from the Italian term named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths. It’s also believed that this illusion caused the myth of The Flying Dutchman to emerge.

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the fact elon mask genuinely might ruin the night sky for everyone makes me wanna sharpen my shovel and get to work

My eyes just aren’t sure how.

These are called RGB dispersion prisms

you can buy them here…

dude.

Distribution of dark matter in the universe, as simulated with a novel, high-resolution algorithm at the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. (Via Space.com)

Credit: AMNH. They also have a friendly video introducing dark matter: