General Image of a Brocken spectre

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An image of a Brocken spectre, where a person’s shadow appears on the fog.

Brocken comes from Brocken or Blocksberg, a mountain in Germany where the phenomenon was first described. In mythology, it was referred to as a mountain guardian, who would guide lost spirits through the fog.

Scientifically, this effect is fairly easy to explain. The sun causes a shadow to fall upon (and through) the water droplets of the cloud or fog. The distance of the shadow makes it hard for the viewer to accurately judge the size and proportions of the shadow. The colorful solar glory often seen around the shadow is produced by light refracting within the water droplets. As clouds shift, the Brocken spectre can seem to flicker and move.

‘Brocken Spectre’ Is a Rare Yet Beautiful Optical Phenomenon of a Radial Rainbow

I can see your (rainbow) halo.

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When mating, hermaphroditic banana slugs stab each other with their penises. Usually both slugs end up with fertilized eggs, and they go their separate ways. But sometimes they get stuck, and have to chew each other's penises off, an act called apophallation.

 

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NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life.

Liftoff! NASA’s Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter - NASA

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have

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At the age of 97, Keiko Fukuda became the first woman in history to obtain a 10th degree black belt in Judo. She also continued teaching Judo weekly until she died at 99

 

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Mike Tyson used to do a neck bridge workout for 30 minutes daily to grow his neck up to 20 inches. He would perform 200-500 neck bridges, both front and back, to strengthen all sides of his neck and also used a neck harness with added weight for flexion and extension movements. He’s said later in life that he regrets doing neck bridges due to the damage it caused to his spine.

 

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The Peliken - the god of happiness, good mood, joy and fun from the Chukchi culture.

 

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Voyager Golden Record is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth, at a distance of 24.7 billion km. The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977.

 

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The elephant has a prehistoric ancestor called a platybelodon. It's mouth looks like a cross between a elephants trunk, the bill of a duck, and a platypus.

 

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If Saturn were as close to Earth as the moon, this is how it would look like.

 

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The hand size of Serbian basketball player Boban Marjanović is surreal

He has a pituitary gland condition that causes gigantism, which is why his hands are disproportionately larger.

 

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Hull, England. Fun fair rides.

 

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In 2016 a Burger King in Rego Park, New York dressed up as McDonald's for Halloween

 

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Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) or Berthe's mouse lemur is the tiniest primate in the world. It weighs about 30 g (1.1 oz).

 

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Close-up of a human molar tooth

 

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A cat's tongue under a microscope

 

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Coelacanths and other lobe-finned fish are more closely related to us than they are other fish - i.e sharks, salmon etc

 

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Last photograph of a Bubal Hartebeest in 1895, before it went extinct in 1925

 

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What recently discovered exoplanet LHS 1140b may look like. Found by Webb telescope, scientists say one side is all ice, while the other side that is tidally locked to its star has a region of liquid ocean and cloud, appearing like an eye.

 

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61 years ago, Felicette became the first cat to go to space

 

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An anti-poaching ranger sitting with and comforting one of the young gorillas he protects after its mother died (Virunga National Park, Republic of Congo)

 

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The hydnora africana plant has a flower that smells like decaying flesh.

 

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Purussaurus is one of the largest known of the giant crocodilians, perhaps even surpassing Sarcosuchus in size. It reigned supreme in central South America in the Miocene period, 8 million years ago.

 

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Artemis mission spacesuit designed by Prada

 

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The Isle of Discussion, or Eilean a' Chomhraidh, is a small, heart-shaped island in Loch Leven, Scotland

 

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Australia have special Rescue Ambulances. They have an exoskeleton and can drive through 4 foot of water and bushfires.