Outer Space from Sander van den Berg on Vimeo.
Stunning time-lapse footage of Saturn and Jupiter, plus rings and moons. Via joe_haldeman.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
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Best Science Video You'll See Today: Quantum Levitation - Watch MoreFunny Videos

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A few people have been linking to this stunning time-lapse video from El Teide in Tenerife, by Norwegian photographer Terje Sørgjerd. Needs to be viewed XXL:


The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

The best Mars images from Orbiter's first five years. I've been using the first image as my laptop wallpaper for more than a year.

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"I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean." Re. today's NASA announcement: okay, it's not red dwarfs from Mars, it's the discovery of some mad microbe that utilises arsenic instead of phosphorus. Woah. This is actually big news for our understanding of life on Earth. (via purplecthulhu)

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Astronaut Douglas Wheelock's photos of Earth from the ISS. Gorgeous.

Via papersky.

The Mandelbrot Set has been given a third dimension... two pages of gorgeous, weird and alien landscapes.

Via godelescherbach.