18 Truly Remarkable Photos Everyone Needs To See

The highest resolution photos ever taken by a telescope of the Orion Nebula

Extreme kayaking near molten lava, Hawaii

Thor’s Well, Oregon. Also known as ’the gates of the dungeon.’

 

Hyperion, the tallest tree in the world. It’s 379 ft tall, and approximately 700-800 years old

Shadows thousands of miles long cast by clouds on Earth’s surface

 The fury of a thunderstorm

The sun, shot in ultraviolet.

A fire opal — it really looks like sunset inside a rock!

A close up of a human eye reveals in remarkable detail the structures of the iris

A frozen pond in Switzerland

What a solar eclipse looks like from space

Birds, lit up by a fire raging below, find their way through thick black smoke

A turtle riding a jellyfish.

 This is what the Earth looks like from an unfamiliar perspective — from that of the Pacific Ocean

The Fukang meteorite, a precious gift the universe brought to Earth, is believed to be some 4.5 billion years old.

 

 Frozen waves on the shores of the island of Nantucket.