Image round-up for 26 November 2024

More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size.

[For the link round-up, click here.]

World's largest ice maze, Zakopane, Poland

Milan

I'd never have thought that Arizona was 26% forest, or Nevada 16%

A tiny part of the interior of a human cell (a cell from any vertebrate would look pretty much the same)

Rouen, France

Size of Ukraine relative to western Europe

Italy seen from space

Ancient Carthage

HR Giger

Most of the red and pink (except Turkey) probably reflects high vodka and meat consumption

Earth

The Faroe islands

A distant galaxy, similar in structure to our own, likely containing hundreds of billions of stars.  For all we know, there could be ten thousand civilizations in this picture, all of them unaware of each other's existence -- and of ours.