Interesting HOF

The Hall Of Fame of Interesting Things

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One morning, in March 2008, a rare and beautiful sight greeted Yuri Beletsky, astronomer at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory at Paranal in northern Chile.

ESO/ Y. Beletsky, 2010

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Pier by Sabine Hut 16-9, Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand

Michal Klajban, 2019

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The atmospheric plume from an underwater volcano eruption in the Pacific nation of Tonga is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the Pacific Ocean northwest of Auckland, New Zealand. Edited photo.

NASA / Kayla Barron, 2022

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Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Kettbach -- 2015 -- 8499-503

Dietmar Rabich, 2015

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Tronco de árbol fosilizado, Arizona, Estados Unidos,, DD 081-103 FS-Alt

Diego Delso, 2021

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Iceland - - Gullfoss - 3684

Pierre-Selim Huard, 2017

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Waterfall over the Basaltic Prisms of Santa María Regla, Huasca de Ocampo, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Diego Delso, 2013

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Crâne de smilodon exposé au Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Wilfredor, 2016

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Bridge at the heart pond in the wildlife park in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The wildlife park was designed in 1864 by English landscape architect Edward Milner as the “Amended Plan of Park Dülmen Westphalia” and laid out in 1868 by Charles…

Dietmar Rabich, 2022

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The binary star system Rho Ophiuchi. This star-forming region is located only 400 light years from Earth and is surrounded by a red emission nebula and numerous light and dark brown dust lanes.

Rogelio Bernal Andreo, 2012

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Detail view of Los Aguarales de Valpalmas, a rare, fragile and dynamic geological phenomena located near Valpalmas, Zaragoza, Spain. The landscape is the result of water flows over fragile material in a process known as piping.

Diego Delso, 2015

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The total phase of the June 15 lunar eclipse lasted an impressive 100 minutes.

Elias Politis ( https://t.co/8nlEnbN4re ), 2011

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Emission nebulae behind molecular clouds in the constellations Perseus and Taurus seen by the Northern Sky Narrowband Survey.

TK833, 2025

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Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, at mission time 075:49:07 [8] (16:40 UTC), while in orbit around the Moon, showing the Earth rising for the third time above the lunar horizon.

NASA/Bill Anders, 1968

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Quill pen covered with dew. Location, The Famberhorst.

Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, 2018

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Tarasp municipality Scuol gemeente Scuol in Lower Engadin, Graubünden. Alps above the lake.

Agnes Monkelbaan, 2023

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If you could see into the near infrared, the Orion Nebula might look something like this. This multiband study of the Orion Nebula covered the near infrared, red, green, and blue bands along with H-alpha and [O III] emission.

Brainandforce, 2026

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Sunset view from the back of the Seljalandsfoss waterfall, Suðurland, Iceland. The waterfall of the river Seljalandsá drops 60 metres (200 ft) over the cliffs of the former coastline.

Diego Delso, 2014

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Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, SA: Wilpena Pound at sunset, viewed from the Moralana Scenic Drive near the Parachilna Road.

Faj2323, 2015

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Ganado, Imehejek, Sudán del Sur

Diego Delso, 2024