Oct 17, 2012
Valles Marineris in Infrared This image covers a small portion of gigantic Coprates Chasma, part of Valles Marineris on Mars With enhanced IR colors, we see a portion of the very top of the south wall...
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Coils of Kepler In 1604, a new star appeared in the night sky that was much brighter than Jupiter and dimmed over several weeks. This event was witnessed by sky watchers including the famous astronomer...
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One Galaxy Piercing the Heart of Another When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. These words, which open Shelley’s poem...
View ArticleLymphangiogenesis
12th Place Esra Guc, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Subject: 3D lymphangiogenesis assay. Cells sprout from dextran beads embedded in fibrin gel Technique: Fluorescence...
View ArticleSea Gooseberry
8th Place Gerd A.Guenther, Düsseldorf, Germany Subject: Pleurobrachia sp. (sea gooseberry) larva Technique: Differential Interference Contrast Magnification: 500x
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20th Place Dorit Hockman, University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom Subject: Molossus rufu (black mastiff bat) embryos Technique: Brightfield
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17th Place Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, WA Subject: Stinging nettle trichome on leaf vein Technique: Transmitted Light Magnification: 100x
View ArticlePredatory Ciliate
13th Place Diana Lipscomb, George Washington University, Washington, DC Subject: Sonderia sp. (a ciliate that preys upon various algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria) Technique: Nomarski Interference...
View ArticleLynx Spiders
2nd Place Walter Piorkowski, South Beloit, IL Subject: Live newborn lynx spiders Technique: Reflected Light/Fiber Optics/Image Stacking Magnification: 6x
View ArticleFruit Fly Larva
11th Place Jessica Von Stetina, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA Subject: Single optical section through the tip of the gut of a Drosophila melanogaster larva expressing a...
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4th Place W. Ryan Williamson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA Subject: Drosophila melanogaster visual system halfway through pupal development, showing retina (gold), photoreceptor axons...
View ArticleFruit Fly Eye
7th Place Michael Bridge, HSC Core Research Facilities -- Cell Imaging Lab, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Subject: Eye organ of a Drosophila melanogaster (third-instar larvae) Technique:...
View ArticleZebrafish Embryo
Above: 1st Place Jennifer Peters and Michael Taylor, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Subject: The blood-brain barrier in a live zebrafish embryo Technique: Confocal Magnification: 20x
View ArticleWasp
Parasitic Wasp Nikola Rahme, Budapest, Hungary Subject: Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae (parasitic wasp) Technique: Reflected light Magnification: 21.2x
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Parasitic Mite Gilles San Martin, Biodiversity Research Center, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Subject: Female of Varroa destructor (parasitic mite that attacks the honey bees Apis cerana and...
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House Spider
Spiders, weevils, wasps, lice, mites and mosquitoes are among the creepiest subjects of the winners of Nikon's Small World microscope photography competition this year. Super-close-ups of eyes, tongues...
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