Last week NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft started sending loads of new pictures from the closest planet to the Sun.
This is the first one we received, from an area that was never mapped before.
I mean, people, it’s just rocks and craters but it’s another planet, these things always give me goosebumps.

Another pretty picture I found last week was in this article. If you don’t have time to read it just keep in mind that the prettier frogs are, the deadlier they get. This one must be pretty toxic considering its flamboyant colours.
I also learnt that, unlike other animals, frogs don’t produce poison automatically, but distil it from the food they eat, which is pretty cool as well.
Basically when they run out of it they have to find the right plants and insects to replenish their reserve.

Iori Tomita is a Japanese artist who uses a special preservation technique, a specific type of dye and something between five months and a year to turn dead fish into colourful semi-transparent works of art.

The following image left me astonished. It’s what happened in Pakistan after last year’s giant flood.
More than a fifth of the country got submerged, so that millions of spiders crowded on the few trees remaining to avoid drowning.
The result is that most of them got covered by spider webs, which makes interesting shots but also had some pretty disastrous consequences, as you can read in the article linked with the picture.

Northern Lights as seen from the ISS are quite stunning.

BONUS CONTENT: this .gif just cracked me up, lol.