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This is one bad ass sand castle.
An illusion that shows a baby and a couple enjoying the view.
This may look like an ordinary montain, but tilt your head to the left.
This is some HUGE tree. Never seen anything like it.
The image is a panoramic view of the world from one of nasa's space stations
I bet it's very hot.
Explanation: Cones, pillars, and majestic flowing shapes abound in stellar nurseries where natal clouds of gas and dust are buffeted by energetic winds from newborn stars. A well-known example, the Cone Nebula within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264, was captured in this close-up view from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. While the Cone Nebula, about 2,500 light-years away in Monoceros, is around 7 light-years long, the region pictured here surrounding the cone's blunted head is a mere 2.5 light-years across. In our neck of the galaxy that distance is just over half way from the Sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. The massive star NGC 2264 IRS, seen by Hubble's infrared camera in 1997, is the likely source of the wind sculpting the Cone Nebula and lies off the top of the image. The Cone Nebula's reddish veil is produced by glowing hydrogen gas.
The true depth of an iceberg.
A new species related to the Lobster family has been discovered off Easter Island. The furry lobster resembles a cross between a cat or Orangatang. "Kiwa hirsuta" is so distinct from other species that scientists have created a new family and genus for it. Undoctored photo!
This is a National Geographic photo the morning after a forest fire. No location information though.
