Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle. Chile.

via: National Geographic Photo Content 2011

A cloud of charged particles from the sun slammed into Earth [this past] Monday, setting off an intense geomagnetic storm that spawned northern lights across the U.S.

(photo: Michigan)

Ethereally surreal.

via: National Geographic

(Source: Flickr / _miaslo)

Walk through clouds, literally. 

TRANSSOLAR & Tetsuo Kondo Architects created Cloudscapes. Visitors experience a real cloud from below, within, and above, floating in the center of the Arsenale. Venice, Italy.

via: ourbirthmarks

Heinz Isler’s ice structures. 

This is what I would call the art of nature and physics.

Heinz Isler, a swiss engineer, started experimenting with ice just a few years afer graduating from university. He would hang nets, cloth, strings and balloons on trees; supporting them from below with rods. Taking on their natural form through their own weight and the wind, they would then be sprayed with water and ice over to form self supporting structures. A millimeter thick layer of ice was enough to allow the supporting structure to be removed, leaving them suspended.

via: safetythird

“The Mountain” by Terje Sorgjerd

via: booooooom.com