Opening shot of “Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword” (1964)

An enormous flare maxing out the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s sensors, above, and split into different wavelengths, below

15-year-old Jane Austen’s parodical history of England

“During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.”

“It was in this reign that Joan of Arc lived & made such a row among the English. They should not have burnt her – but they did.”

Instructions for assembling a plague amulet (1670)

Plot of millions of ships’ logs from 1785 to 1860

Furry bee portraits – Sam Droege

Automated Transfer Vehicle Albert Einstein breaks up in the atmosphere

Gordan Ugarkovic – Titan in ultraviolet

A chiton’s teeth– made of the hardest material produced by any living organism, magnetite.

Operation Gomorrah – Hamburg, 1943

Tropical aurora following the space detonation of the 1.44-megaton Starfish Prime in 1962

High-altitude sprites captured by photographer Jason Ahrns

Excellent vintage type and design being captured in situ at Typehunting

Shotgun pellets captured at 354 m/s by a “streak camera”

Rare double Einstein ring found by Hubble

Some of the more awkward illustrations from an old Chinese book of animals

Saturn’s Polar Hexagon

Interesting breakdown of Facebook data by Stephen Wolfram

WWI slides found in an antique Verascope (more Found Film here)