The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

June 2013's Super Moon

Singapore
24-25 June 2013

The night of 24 June 2013 saw the rise of the super moon. This full moon was not only the closest and largest full moon of the year. It was also the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2013. The moon will not be so close again until August 2014. In other words, it was not just a supermoon. It was the closest supermoon of 2013.

Cheezels super moon in haze, 24 June 2013, 1953h...

Super moon, 24 June 2013, 2205h...

Salted egg yolk super moon, PSI 60+, 25 June 2013, 0643h...




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Natural Phenomena - The Moon



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