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Ryugu is a near-Earth object and a potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. It measures approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in diameter and is a dark object of the rare spectral type Cb, with qualities of both a C-type asteroid and a B-type asteroid.

In June 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 arrived at the asteroid. After making measurements and taking samples, Hayabusa2 left Ryugu for Earth in November 2019 and returned the sample capsule to Earth on 5 December 2020.

The samples showed the presence of organic compounds, such as uracil (one of the four components in RNA) and vitamin B3.

They hung up trees with ropes about 10 kilometers from the Russian border to hide the road from airplanes.

It looks like it's not enough to cover the road but, when the road was viewed from an angle (not directly above) and a high altitude, the trees concealed enough of the road to make it difficult to identify as a road.

Source for original picture is The Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive

The Sun doesn’t have a solid surface like Earth and the other rocky planets and moons. The part of the Sun commonly called its surface is the photosphere. The word photosphere means "light sphere" – which is apt because this is the layer that emits the most visible light. It’s what we see from Earth with our eyes.

Although we call it the surface, the photosphere is actually the first layer of the solar atmosphere. It's about 250 miles thick, with temperatures reaching about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius). That's much cooler than the blazing core, but it's still hot enough to make carbon – like diamonds and graphite – not just melt, but boil. Most of the Sun's radiation escapes outward from the photosphere into space.

This species of bird uses trees for winter storage, which are called granary trees and may have up to 50,000 holes, each filled with an acorn. The acorn woodpecker’s main food source is insects, but acorns serve as key nutritional backup, allowing the birds to make it through the winter.

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I thought it was AI art at first

This is one of the most satisfying videos ever taken

The tiger shares 95.6% of its genome with the domestic cat, from which it diverged about 10.8 million years ago

If you crane your neck and look up while standing in front of St Lambert's Church in Münster, Germany, you can make out three iron cages hanging from the church's steeple, just above the clock face.

The cages are empty, but five hundred years ago they held the mutilated, rotten corpses of three revolutionaries who led one of the most brutal Protestant revolutions in history.

Frozen noodles and a frozen egg suspended in air during extreme cold temperatures in Novosibirsk, Russia

I had to look twice!

It looks like it has a pulse!

Jellyfish have a complex life cycle that includes both a sexual stage and an asexual stage.

In the sexual stage, the body (called a medusa) produces gametes (eggs and sperm). Then the eggs fertilized by sperm develop into a free-swimming larval form called planula.

After a brief period floating about in surface waters, the larvae settle to the sea floor, attaching themselves to a rock or the seafloor. They develop into a polyp (asexual stage) and begin to feed and grow.

In spring, some of the polyps start to bud off immature jellyfish known as ephyra larvae. These grow into mature jellyfish.

Mount Teide is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its summit is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic.

Hovering above the volcano there's a spectacular lenticular cloud. Lenticular clouds are stationary clouds that form mostly in the troposphere, typically in parallel alignment to the wind direction

Video captured by photographer Bartosz Wojczyński

This effect happens when the camera frame rate matches the helicopter's rotor RPMs. Each frame captures the blades quickly enough that they look like they are standing still

Glowing alligators eyes in swamp at forest during dusk

Left ventricular thrombus (LVT) is a blood clot (thrombus) in the left ventricle of the heart. LVT is a common complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Typically the clot is a mural thrombus, meaning it is on the wall of the ventricle.

The primary risk of LVT is the occurrence of cardiac embolism, in which the thrombus detaches from the ventricular wall and travels through the circulation and blocks blood vessels.

Blockage can be especially damaging in the heart (infarction) or brain (stroke).

Bretagne, France. Captured by Mathieu Rivrin

Military police mounted on gigantic water buffaloes routinely patrol the streets of the Brazilian island of Marajo

The photo of these two soldiers and their steeds was snapped by photographer Fernando Camara

The eiderdown is a type of down feather, which is a soft and fine layer of feathers located under the bird's tougher exterior feathers.

The female eider duck plucks the feathers off her chest into her nest in order to keep her eggs and young warm.

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala.

A relative of the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), it was sometimes previously considered in a genus of its own (Agriocharis), but the differences between the two turkeys are currently considered too small to justify generic segregation.

It is a relatively large bird, at around 70–122 cm (28–48 in) long and an average weight of 3 kg (6.6 lb) in females and 5 kg (11 lb) in males

You can see chromatin condensing into chromosomes before being pulled apart. The nucleus is visible because cells were tagged with a protein called Histone-mCerry that binds to DNA

This is what the largest city on Earth looks like from above

1912 vs 2012... Humans progress never ceases to amaze!