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The astrophotographer Minoru Yoneto was looking at comet Catalina C/2013 US10... When suddenly Southern Lights appeared and the pillars of fire rose to heaven. Red auroras - scarlet, crimson, and carmine - are only visible under...

When rice fields in Yuanyang, Yunnan, China are flooded. The reflection of the sun and the sky on the water makes you believe you are in the "land of the thousand mirrors". Just awesome. These pictures...

Each year during Khareef - between June and September - a weather phenomenon transforms the arid desert of Salalah into a haven for wildlife and nature. During the so-called 'Salalah Monsoon' a rainforest emerges in the arid...

A new mysterious mass grave of woolly mammoths has been discovered along a Siberian river. Bones of 11 extinct giants plus one woolly rhinoceros have been discovered... And why did they die here, actually? About 550...

This time lapse video features a collection of night short films captured at the Atacama desert and at the ALMA Observatory in Chile. Milky Way, stars, meteors... Stargazing at its highest. Enjoy. Every 5 to 7 years this...

These mysterious roll clouds engulfed the sky of Bern, Switzerland. What a wavy cloud formation. Two weeks ago, I photographed Undulatus Asperatus clouds over Bern... Follow us: Facebook and Twitter

These aurora were so bright that they were even visible alongside the glaring city lights of Tromsø, Norway. And also linked the famous Arctic Cathedral to heaven... or at least to the sky. But this is just...

Agate is a popular gemstone. This finely-grained quartz is known for its vibrant colors and patterns like mountains, rivers, and skies... Watch some amazing pictures of so-called landscape agates. There’s an incredible variety of landscape agates, appearing in...

This is the terrifying moment a violent storm front engulfs town of Caxias do Sul on September 16, 2015. Look at the speed... The city got suddenly covered by this wall of cloud within seconds... Creepy. Now...

A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake shook Chile on September 16 2015. Chilean authorities issued a tsunami alert for the country's entire coast. First M7.9, the now M8.3 quake, 15.5 miles (25 kilometers) below the surface, was centered...

Residents of San Jose and along the Pacific coast of Costa Rica witnessed an amazing cloud formation on September 15, 2015. Rainbow clouds appeared over a thunderstorm. Watch the amazing pictures below. This is the second major...

As if a volcanic wasn't scary enough... Just add some lightnings and you get the incredible feeling that the end of the world is right in front of you. The awesome pictures of volcano lightning during the eruption...

No one on Earth has ever seen anything like it. On September 13 2015, the sun was eclipsed twice. But it was only visible from Earth orbit. The double eclipse began around 06:30 UT when Earth...

Anglesey might really be the island where the magic happens... Well at least when you look at this awesome picture of auroras lighting up the sky over glowing-blue bioluminous waves at Anglesey, UK on September 7, 2015.   Kris...

While solar wind is pouring through a crack in Earth's magnetosphere, G2-class storms and bright auroras spark around the Arctic Circle. But not only. Some made their way all the way down to Canada and...

I believe those clouds rolling over the capital of Switzerland are Undulatus asperatus. If it is the case, it would be the first time I witness and photograph these strange cloud formation. And that just...

The anchor hawse hole of the USS Saratoga sunken in the Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, Marshall Islands is out of this world. It really looks like a giant fish's mouth ready to eat you up! Have you ever...

We all know the Bermuda Triangle. Now, have you ever heard about the Lake Michigan Triangle? Besides the Bermuda Triangle, few areas in the world have a reputation for the bizarre like the Lake Michigan Triangle....

The water level of Lake mead is shrinking fast. But reveals some underwater treasures. The drought in the West is hurting Nevada's Lake Mead in the most obvious sense—it's shrinking fast. But that problem comes with...

There is a sacred sinkhole cave - cenote - under Chichen Itza’s grand Kukulkan Castle Pyramid. This amazing discovery could shed new light on the ancient Maya civilisation. The sacred lake is 35 (105ft) metres across and over 20 metres (60ft)...

Heaven is a place on a Earth. And if that's true, then hell is just two exits down on the left. Discover 8 creepy photos that prove hell exists on Earth. 1. Fire at a chemical...

Wavy undulatus asperatus engulfed the sky over Kentucky and southern Ohio on August 3, 2015. A day before the sky of Chicago was full of mammatus clouds Both strange cloud formations - one looking like agitated...

This photo of Comet PanSTARRS is out of this world. C/2014 Q1 Panstarrs was captured by Michael Jäger, while flying over Farm Tivoli in Namibia. Michael Jäger is probably the best comet photographer around the world. In 1998, he...

A human like Angel has fallen out of the skies over Texas. Yes these photographs show a real-life fallen angel that was captured after it dropped from the skies... Really? So do you think these photographs...

Huge cracks and a monster sinkhole sucked in and destroyed 16 houses last weekend, causing panic among Sepik River villagers and settlers. Yes! Sixteen houses went down as the earth opened up unexpectedly in this swampy...

Florida's ground is just terrifying! Sinkholes sometimes even swallow large drilling trucks! OMG! Florida's ground is hungry or hangry! To show it, a 30-foot-deep giant sinkhole opened up and swallowed a drilling truck in Citrus County, Florida. The truck...

The crooked forest in Poland is out of this world! This strange an eerie woodland is shrouded in mystery. But why have do these trees have this form? In a small corner of western Poland, there is...

A rainbow forming in the desert! Can you imagine that? Believe it or not, but Swiss photographer Stefan Forster captured an extremely rare rainbow in the Namib desert during extreme thunderstorms that only happen every 50 to...

Four enormous underwater volcanoes, thought to be about 50 million years old, have been discovered off the coast of Sydney, Australia. The four volcanoes are calderas, large bowl-shaped craters caused when a volcano erupts and the...

Sometimes I believe in the forces of nature... And its awesomeness! Thanks to Treasure State Photography by Arron Booth for this amazing pictures of a lonely church, some green auroras?, and a kind of milky way halo... Maybe a...

Just an amazing picture by David Lane of the Milky Way over Yellowstone National Park. A path through geysers leading to Nirvana! Awesome! Find more of his astrotrophotography blog. Follow us: Facebook and Twitter

The doomsday Svalbard Seed Vault looks like a magic portal at night! The doomsday ark keeps safe the seeds for 820,619 plants in case of nuclear war, extreme natural catastrophes, or asteroid impacts. And it looks so amazing! Yeah, The...

There is a time bomb in the Pacific. A huge concrete dome filled with plutonium from US nuclear bomb tests threatens the Pacific Ocean. And it is now cracking up! This concrete structure dubbed 'The Runit Dome'...

In a desert in eastern Sudan, along the banks of the Nile River, lies a collection of nearly 200 ancient pyramids. The Meroe pyramids were built between 2,700 and 2,300 years ago and many of...

I've been listening to vinyl for years and years and it still blows my mind that we can make that make sound... Watch this incredible microscope view of a vinyl record playing in slow motion! Wow....

Tree weather phenomena were captured in one amazing picture by Justin Battles in the sky over Arcadia, Florida on June 11, 2015. Lightning in the background and in front a rainbow penetrated by crepuscular rays in...

The Etna volcano in Sicily is in an intense phase! Watch one of the most famous volcanoes in the World spewing its lava at night! It's eerie! The new Etna eruption has started five days ago. The videos...

Located in Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, which looks like liquid mirror when flooded. Within the salt flat, the Luna Salada hotel was built using the abundant natural resource. We can...

The apocalyptic Hurricane Sandy has produced many dramatic photos. One of the most amazing picture shows rare ice halos above the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Scientists believe these multiple ice halos - floating...