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Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus) near Scottsdale,Tasmania, Australia
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In the sparsely populated Kimberley region of Western Australia, jagged landforms reach like fingers into the turquoise-blue ocean waters. Along the coastline north of Derby, they used to reach even farther. But rising sea levels submerged part of the coastal landscape, giving rise to hundreds of islands and low-lying reefs that compose the Buccaneer Archipelago.
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The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025.
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Twelve Apostles at Port Campbell National Park, Princetown, Victoria, Australia
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Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus), Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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View from Kings Park to the city of Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While a variety of dune forms appear across the region, this astronaut photograph features numerous linear dunes (about 25 meters high) separated in a roughly regular fashion (0.5 to 1.5 kilometers apart).
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This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia. The facility celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19, 2025, while also breaking ground on a new radio antenna. The pair of achievements are major milestones for the network, which communicates with spacecraft all over the solar system using giant dish antennas located at three complexes around the globe.
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In the Style of Hellenistic Art – recreate ‘Kakadu National Park Rock Art Site’- Australia – the paintings often employ a mode of representation that has been termed the ‘X-Ray Style’- in which both external features (such as scales and face) and internal ones (like bones and organs) appear on the same figures — using Green Blue Color
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