Lovely world-in-round photomosaic thingie of last night's full moon, seen from a frozen and snowy lake.

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Water on pond ice, Slovakia, viewed through a polarized filter. (USRA's 16 December 2012 Earth Science Picture of the Day)

Doing the wave: Fractures in delicate new ice echo the ripples of the adjacent water. (One of several keen 13 December 2012 daily-stroll photos by LJ user
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A spectacular, award-winning image (utterly unrelated to the big ED) of deer grazing by starlight in a wintry northern wood.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/11/deer-forest.html

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... combine in today's Earth Science photo of the day: An image of a jade-green and wine-dark inland sea, divided by salinity, microbiology, and the Great Salt Lake Causeway. ( Cut for immense size )

Jason Edwards -- winner of the Australian Museum's New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography for his first-ever photo of two Megaptera novaeangliae clapsed in a "brief but tender" mating embrace -- recalls the event in an interview earlier this year with The Daily Telegraph:"It was amazing. There were four or five males vying for her ( Read more... )

Speaker for the stars
waxes poetic over
latest conjunction.

-- Check out an astronomer's artsy Venus/Seven Sisters (Pleiades) image and "conjunction haiku," which are posted over at NASA's Astronomy photo of the day; thanks to apod for this and many other images. Additional images of the Venus-Pleiades conjunction can be found at SpaceWeather.com.

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