Just a few days ago, an asteroid hit Earth. Don't worry, that happens all the time, and this one was way smaller than the one that took out the dinosaurs all those years ago. But it did put on quite the light show as it entered out atmosphere.
Check out a photo of Asteroid RW1 2024, and more in this collection of fascinating photos.
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Street crime is so rare in the Kurdistan region that shopkeepers leave their shops unattended to go have lunch or tea. This stick means the owner is not there.
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Grains were spread for pigeons in Saint Mark's Square in an advertisement by COCA COLA, Venice.
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Asteroid 2024 RW1 exploded over the Philippines.
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National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India.
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What you’re seeing are individual, lab cultured cardiomyocytes, heart cells, on a well plate. They will find each other and begin to beat by themselves.
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Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii or orchid praying mantis.
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Schipol Clock. The illusion of a man standing behind this giant airport clock painting the hands in real time, is actually a 12-hour video loop.
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1986 Episcopelian Church print ad written by Tom McElligott.
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Missing for four decades, this unusual double portrait has resurfaced. The 17th-century painting, stolen in a 1979 heist, turned up at an auction in France in 2020. It recently returned home to Chatsworth House in England.
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Miners unearth a mummified wooly rhino in Siberia, with an intact horn and soft tissue. The rare discovery will help scientists find out more about the prehistoric animal’s development, diet and living conditions.
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A piece written for 18 hands across the piano.
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The Sagittarius bird in Africa.
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The James Webb Space Telescope sees a cosmic question mark.
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Ruud water heater from 1922.
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LAPD robot dog entering a home to investigate a shooting.
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Workers cutting an old ship in half to later enlarge it.
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An underwater gas leak.
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A 'Cotton Candy' lobster was caught in New Castle, Delaware on July 21, 2024. The odds are one in 100,000,000.
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A helicopter refueling mid-air.
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In Candyman, the scene where Tony Todd had bees flying out of his mouth used real bees. Todd only agreed to do the scene if they paid him $1000 for every bee sting. After they were done shooting the scene, Todd was $23,000 richer.
