Fish Fibroblast
Honorable Mention: CAR Fish Fibroblast Maria Nemethova, IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology GmbH, Vienna, Austria Subject: CAR fish fibroblast transfected with mCherry-Actin and GFP-Vasp...
View ArticleMicrotubule Asters
Honorable Mention: Microtubule Asters Recapitulated in a Model Cytoplasm Phuong Anh Nguyen, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Subject: Time lapse movie of microtubule asters growing in a...
View ArticleOnion Bulb Scale Epidermis
Honorable Mention: Onion Bulb Scale Epidermis Heiti Paves, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia Subject: Movement of organelles in plant cells (onion bulb scale epidermis) Magnification:...
View ArticleArabidopsis endosomes
Honorable Mention: Arabidopsis endosomes Daniel von Wangenheim, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany Subject: Fast moving endosomes in Arabidopsis thaliana root cells...
View ArticleAction of the Heart
Honorable Mention: Action of the Heart Michael Weber, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Subject: Beating heart of a living 2-day-old Danio rerio (zebrafish)...
View ArticleThe Making of the Brain
Honorable Mention: The Making of the Brain Fengzhu Xiong, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Subject: Imaging of the formation of the anterior hindbrain from a flat sheet of neural plate...
View ArticleJan 17, 2013
Moody, Glowing Saturn Auroras This false-color composite image, constructed from data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows the glow of auroras streaking out about 1,000 km (600 miles) from the...
View ArticleEuropa’s Broken Surface
Europa’s Broken Surface Scientists suspect that Jupiter’s moon Europa contains a gigantic hidden ocean beneath its icy outer shell. The finding suggests that the moon possesses some sort of tectonic...
View ArticleFirst Mars Image
First Mars Image One of the earliest images from Mars comes from this strange picture from the Mariner 4 mission in 1964. Too anxious to wait for the official processed shot from the spacecraft,...
View ArticleIapetus’ Ridge
Iapetus’ Ridge Saturn’s moon Iapetus has an incredible and unique geologic feature, a ridge 20 km high that runs for 1,300 km along the moon’s equator. Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
View ArticleVolcanic Io
Volcanic Io When NASA’s Voyager 1 mission zipped by the Jupiter system in 1979, it discovered that far from the sun were worlds of unimaginable activity. In particular, it shot spectacular pictures of...
View ArticleMiranda’s Chevrons
Miranda’s Chevrons Uranus’ moon Miranda is a jumbled assemblage of older, heavily cratered terrain, interspersed with young land covered in scarps and ridges. One of Miranda’s distinctive “chevron”...
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What Makes Up the Moon
Before 1962, most of the planets in our solar system were hardly more than blurry dots in some astronomer’s telescope. The most the scientists knew about Mercury, Venus, or Jupiter was their size,...
View ArticleOlympus Mons
Olympus Mons The biggest mountain in the solar system is Olympus Mons, towering at nearly 22 km, or more than three times the height of Mount Everest on Earth. It’s entire expanse takes up the same...
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South-Pole Aiken Basin
South-Pole Aiken Basin One of largest impact craters in the solar system is the lunar South Pole Aiken Basin. Located on the far side of the moon (which never faces the Earth) it was only possible to...
View ArticleTriton’s Volcanoes
Triton’s Volcanoes To find a volcanically active place at the furthest reaches of the solar system was certainly a surprise when scientists got their first glimpse of Neptune’s moon Triton with the...
View ArticleAphrodite Terra
Aphrodite Terra Aphrodite is an enormous continent on the surface of Venus. This image, from the Magellan spacecraft taken in 1991, features this bright region in its center. Venus is known to have...
View ArticleJan 22, 2013
Stephan's Quintet This grouping of five galaxies 280 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus is known as Stephan's Quintet. Four of the five galaxies are experiencing a violent merger,...
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