The Universe
Let nature be your stylist with these colorful natural phenomena.
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Ancient Sunlight
Coal formed from ancient plant material buried in swampy environments and transformed...
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Coastal Shelf
Along tropical coasts, shallow to moderately deep water can appear teal...
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Dune Forest
In coastal and inland dune systems, wind constantly moves and redeposits sand....
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Earth Mass
Beneath Earth’s thin crust lies the mantle, a vast layer that makes...
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Electric Sky
Lightning forms when collisions among ice particles and water droplets inside a...
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Flower Garden
Light pink appears throughout nature—in blossoms, young petals, and the soft light...
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Glacial Core
As snow accumulates year after year, its weight compresses the layers beneath,...
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Iron Sunset
Across canyons and redrock plateaus, sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, shale, and...
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Lightning Sprites
Powerful lightning discharges can disturb the electric field high above a thunderstorm,...
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Lucent Tide
Bioluminescent shorelines occur when large concentrations of microscopic dinoflagellates are disturbed by...
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Mantle Emergence
Earth’s upper mantle is composed largely of peridotite. Under the right conditions,...
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Meteorite Core
Some asteroids grew large enough for their interiors to melt and separate...
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Opposite Sunset
At sunset, sunlight travels through more of the atmosphere, scattering shorter blue...
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Plasma Flare
Fusion in the Sun’s core produces energy that ultimately emerges as a...
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Salt Mirror
Salt flats form when shallow lakes evaporate in arid regions, leaving behind...
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Solar Wind
Auroras form when charged particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic...
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Timeless Algae
Red algae (Rhodophyta) are among the oldest surviving lineages of complex photosynthetic...
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Umbra Phase
During a total lunar eclipse, Earth passes between the Sun and Moon,...
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Volcanic Cinder
Cinder cones are steep volcanic hills formed when gas-rich magma erupts into...
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Wave Filter
When a wave forms a hollow barrel and is backlit by the...
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Zodiacal Light
Zodiacal light is a faint, triangular glow visible above the horizon before...