Earth's inner core has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, a research is suggesting
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Rafflesia arnoldii, aka the corpse flower, has a strong and unpleasant odor of decaying flesh. It grows to a diameter of around one meter (3.3 feet), weighing up to 11 kilograms (24 lb)
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The latest largest rocket to leave Earth, Saturn V, carried ~7.6 million lbs of propellant
Starhip and its booster were just fully loaded with more than 10 million lbs. The first time for an integrated ship + booster
[source: https://t.co/IcXFN33CBJ]
This is a "false catshark," also known as a "sofa shark," caught by accident off the Scotland coast in 2015 and released. It spends its live between 200 and 1,500 meters below the surface and it has a very peculiar appearance
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Pinwheel Galay (NGC 5457)
Distance: 20.9 Β± 1.8 million light years (6.4 Β± 0.5 Mpc)
Size: 169,300 light years (51.91 kpc) ~ 1.7 x Milky Way
Number of stars: 1 trillion (10ΒΉΒ²)
Constellation: Ursa Major
[read more: https://t.co/gxTIxtfc6u]
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This might surprise you, but a praying mantis can indeed kill and eat a hummingbird. Only large mantises around 4 inches long have the capacity to catch a hummingbird, though.
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The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.
4K version on Youtube: https://t.co/rLgzP7fRYY