An astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph during a rare clear day over Ireland and Great Britain. The wide view captures the contrasting colors of various land cover types present across the two islands
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Look at those mountains. This is what landing on a comet looks like. The photo comes from the first part of @ESA_Rosetta descent on comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken from a distance of 16 km with OSIRIS NAC, at 01:20 UT, exactly 4 years ago #Today https://t.co/KoSV3H2lmD
The oldest known hominid footprints discovered outside of Africa are on a beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, England. They are estimated to be 800,000 years old https://t.co/umi1grT0dy
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence https://t.co/k0wGQ3nVum
Oldest house in France. It's found in Aveyron, built in 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne.
Ground floor is a little smaller than upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this.
#archaeohistories
I took this shot flying over Manhattan the other night. The Hudson and East Rivers fight and left, Cental Park bottom right, and the bright blob middle right is Times Square. It’s rare to get this clear a view …
An explosion of zinc fireworks occurs when a human egg is activated by a sperm enzyme, and the size of these “sparks” is a direct measure of the quality of the egg and its ability to develop into an embryo. In other words, life begins with a flash of light https://t.co/joMfZes4iW
For some reason, I’m struck by the feeling of immediacy in this 1906 autochrome colour image of a village woman, maybe almost hearing the soft crunch of her boots on the damp pebbled path
Have you ever considered how fast you are really moving when you relax in your favorite armchair and it seems you are not moving at all? This animated chart by @physicsJ shows the relative cosmic velocities. Follow his profile for more. YoutTube channel: https://t.co/IzvQlQms7A
From the Archives: Neanderthals lived at the site of La Cotte de Saint Brelade on the English Channel island of Jersey for some 200 millennia, from around 240,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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Together with my friend @AlinejadMasih , the brave Iranian woman and campaigner against the compulsory #hijab .
“ #IranianWomen are like the suffragettes, they’re risking breaking the law for something they absolutely know is right.”