André Kuipers

🤦 It's probably every musician's worst nightmare: imagine yourself sitting on stage ready to play a concerto and the orchestra begins to perform a completely different piece...😮 #MariaJoãoPires

Nederlandse Nobelprijswinnaar 't Hooft wint prestigieuze wetenschapsprijs nu.nl/wetenschap/635…

#OTD in 1566, some 200 nobles arrived the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to hand over a petition to the Regent, Margaret of Parma. They wanted the government to relax anti-protestant laws.

Primeur in de ruimte: astronauten gelanceerd voor vlucht over de polen /via @NOS nos.nl/l/2561952

Slow motion fluid dynamics art

Van ruimterace via vreedzame samenwerking naar nieuwe wapenwedloop in de ruimte. /via @nosop3 nos.nl/l/2560679

Carl Sagan sheds light on the kind of logic and reasoning some use that leads to false assumptions. (🎥Source ; @carlsagandotcom )

Een uur maakt een groot verschil. Vanavond 20:30 gaat wereldwijd het licht een uur uit tijdens Earth Hour - een krachtig gebaar voor meer natuur en een leefbare planeet. Iedereen kan op kleine of grote schaal meedoen! @wnfnederIand #EarthHour

Fun fact. Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 1970s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song. And it was a hit.

John Hemingway, laatste piloot uit de Battle of Britain, op 105-jarige leeftijd overleden /via @NOS nos.nl/l/2560173

Learn a lesson on the greenhouse effect from Carl Sagan. - Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change (🎥 Source - @carlsagandotcom )

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch [🎞️ geoglobe_tales]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Deepsea rover films extremely rare bigfin squid at 3300m depth By Pfarrer_Assmann

11 and 8-year old PRODIGY SISTERS played Vivaldi Winter with me on the violin in Rome airport! They were SO CUTE AND AMAZING.. the whole airport loved it 😍.

I think even Bach himself would've been amazed at this rendition. Spellbinding 🌷🎼🎶 J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor on the glass harp ✨

How the staff empty bins onboard this Indian train.. 😪

The Dance of the Little Swans from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, animated. [🎞️ polyfjord]

Completing a 10+day mission, the CM of "Gumdrop" splashed down in the North Atlantic OTD 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission had qualified the Saturn V/CSM/LM combination, the LM in free-flight & the Apollo EVA suit. The crew also conducted prototype Earth resources photography

Hungarian Dance No. 5 meets the timeless genius of Charlie Chaplin—moving perfectly to the rhythm of music. A masterpiece of motion and melody! 😍✨