Star-Vapor
The Milky Way is a particularly dramatic galaxy, with its spiral arms. Most look more like this, the DDO 82 dwarf galaxy, which is about 13 million light-years away--like an amorphous cloud of "vapor," which are actually stars. Read more here.
ESA/Hubble & NASA
Croc Baby
Hey buddy! You are already kind of scary. Scary-cute. This photo was taken at a crocodile farm in the Philippines. Check out more amazing photojournalism like this over at American Photo.
Reuters/Romeo Ranoco
Manicured Turtles
It's important to track the endangered loggerhead turtle, but not particularly easy to keep the trackers on the turtles' backs. A novel solution: take advice from a manicurist. One of the Florida team called her manicurist, who recommended an acrylic base coat--a far better method that actually increased the life of the trackers by two to three months. Read more here.
Kate Mansfield
A Worker-Powered Desk
It's not a pedal-powered desk or anything, luckily. Instead, the Unplugged desk, from designer Eddi Törnberg, uses a variety of technologies to generate electricity, from piezoelectric fabric woven into the chair to some tricks to leverage the human body's heat output. It's not enough to power a laptop, says Mark Wilson over at FastCoDesign, but it does power a lamp.
Eddi Törnberg
"Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet"
Captured by Hubble, this here is the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which has a bright blue appearance which lasts for a few million years--a short lifespan, comparatively--before exploding as supernovae. Read more here.
ESA/NASA
Aurora over Crater Lake
Photographer Brad Goldpaint took this shot of the Aurora Borealis over Oregon's Crater Lake a few weeks ago. It's a gorgeous one. Check out his site for more.
Brad Goldpaint
World's Largest Croc
This crocodile, found in the Philippines, is officially the world's largest, at more than 20 feet long. It's suspected of killing two people, which is partly why these people seem so excited to strap it onto a wagon.
Reuters
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