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nationalgeographicmagazine:

Reindeer, Scandinavia
Photograph by Erika Larsen
Sami herders follow the migrations of the reindeer as they move across northern Scandinavia and Russia from their winter grazing grounds to cooler areas during the summer months.

Remember Smilla’s Sense of Snow?  Dreamy…

solidair:

The World At Night is a program to produce and present a collection of stunning photographs and time-lapse videos of the world’s landmarks against the celestial attractions. The eternally peaceful sky looks the same above symbols of all nations and regions, attesting to the truly unified nature of Earth as a planet rather than an amalgam of human-designated territories.

i12bent:

Thomas Smillie: Total Solar Eclipse, May 28, 1900 - glass plate negative (Smithsonian Institution Archives)

In 1900 the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, then based in Washington, D.C., loaded several railroad cars with scientific equipment and headed to Wadesboro, North Carolina. Scientists had determined that this small town would be the best location in North America for viewing the expected total solar eclipse on May 28, and the Smithsonian Solar Eclipse Expedition hoped to capture photographic proof of the solar corona during the event for further study. The team included Smithsonian photographer Thomas Smillie, who headed up the missions photographic component. Smillie rigged cameras to seven telescopes and successfully made eight glass-plate negatives, ranging in size from eleven by fourteen inches to thirty by thirty inches. At the time, Smillies work was considered an amazing photographic and scientific achievement…

rustybreak:

Aurora in Wisconsin, USA.

saturnrising:

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, The Wall 

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allcreatures:

Maripi chooses the name of her pup by picking the “Pablo” flowerpot, which conceals a hard-boiled egg. She could have selected “Demetrio,” which was paired with grapefruit, or “Fausto,” paired with mango. (Smithsonian National Zoo.)

Photo: Mehgan Murphy / Smithsonian National Zoological

allcreatures:

Photograph: Monfort Bat Cave & Conservation Foundation

kateoplis:

Walrus cows nursing their calves, Nunivak Island by USFWAlaska

kateoplis:

Lunar twilight, Ilulissat, Greenland, by Timothy Allen 

Folks in Ilulissat live life in a twilight of pink and purple for three months of the year. I’m so down with that. 

mianoti:

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