This week's Image of the Week roundup also includes gorgeous nebulae, a baby walrus, an aborted 23-mile-high skydive, and more incredible science imagery for you to gawk at.
1. Mystery Eyeball
This softball-sized eyeball washed up on the shore in Pompano Beach, Florida this Wednesday. Scientists aren't sure what animal it belongs to, although they note that giant squid often have eyeballs this large or even larger, and that it is not uncommon for them to become unattached. Other possibilities include a huge swordfish or marlin. Read more here.
2. Tilted House
Photo/more info via Architizer
French artist Jean-Francois Fourtou created this house/art project, titled “Tombée du Ciel” (Fallen from the Sky), on his own Moroccan property. The house is constructed upside-down - the pics from the inside are awesome.
3. Pretty Nanoflower
This isn't a flower, exactly; it's a flower-like structure made of germanium sulphide - a semiconductor material. Turns out the shape of a flower, with thin petals, gives you tons of surface area, which could be very useful for solar cells, data storage, and other purposes. Read more here.
4. Baby Walrus
Meet Mitik, a 15-month-old walrus calf! He was orphaned in Alaska, but he's been airlifted all the way to the Brooklyn Aquarium in Coney Island. That aquarium doesn't have a stellar record with walruses, but we're pulling for Mitik. Read more here.
5. Cat's Eye
NASA recently released the results from the first systematic survey of nearby solar nebulae. This is one of the most beautiful - the Cat's Eye nebula. See more here.
6. Dirty Mouth
The Chinese soft-shell turtle isn't a newly-discovered species - it's fairly common and the most common turtle in China for turtle soup - but we did find out something very new and weird about it: this species urinates through its own mouth. Weird! Read more here. [Related Post]
7. Book Mountain
Spijkenisse, in The Netherlands, is the site of this new "book mountain" library, a massive, glass-covered structure with a sunny reading room at the peak. Read more here. [Related Post]
8. Panda Friends
Pandas can be skittish - so to approach these, in China's Wolong National Reserve, these researchers had to don panda suits. For more photojournalism like this, check out American Photo.
9. Windy Conditions
We were hoping to have an incredible skydiving picture to add to the roundup this week, but windy conditions forced a delay. It is pretty windy, though; look how twisted up that balloon got! Read more here.
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