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Temora longicornis

by Jan Michels, Temora longicornis (marine copepod), ventral view (10X)

Affiliation : Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Location : Kiel, Germany
Technique : Confocal, Autofluorescence and Congo Red Fluorescence

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Spallanzani's Feather Duster Worm - Spirographis spallanzani

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Arrojadoa penicillata

Arrojadoa penicillata
Synonym : Cereus penicillatus  
Subfamily : Cactoideae  
Tribe: Cereeae Distribution : Bahia - Brazil (South America)  
Habit : Cylindrical  
Flower : Pink  
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W5 : Pillars of Star Formation

Image Credit & Copyright: Lori Allen, Xavier Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA

"How do stars form ? A study of star forming region W5 by the sun-orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope provides clear clues by recording that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. A likely reason for this is that the older stars in the center are actually triggering the formation of the younger edge stars. The triggered star formation occurs when hot outflowing gas compresses cooler gas into knots dense enough to gravitationally contract into stars.  

Spectacular pillars, left slowly evaporating from the hot outflowing gas, provide further visual clues. In the above scientifically-colored infrared image, red indicates heated dust, while white and green indicate particularly dense gas clouds. W5 is also known as IC 1848, and together with IC 1805 form a complex region of star formation popularly dubbed the Heart and Soul Nebulas.

The above image highlights a part of W5 spanning about 2,000 light years that is rich in star forming pillars. W5 lies about 6,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia."

via apod.nasa.gov

 

'Brinicle' ~ A Cold, Cold Finger of Death, by Ice


As brine from the sea ice sinks, a 'brinicle' forms threatening life on the sea floor with a frosty fate.

 

A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew.

With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.

The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.

Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.

 

More on This Story via bbc.co.uk

 

Peter and the Wolf ~ Music by Prokofiev

This wonderful 2006 animation film received 5 Oscars. Created by the Polish animation studio SE-MA-FOR, which also created Colargol in the 60-70's.

  via youtube.com


Peter and the Wolf (Russian: Петя и волк, Petya i volk), Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story (with both music and text by Prokofiev), spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra.


The image is a 1947 Peter and the Wolf coloring book cover

Allison Schulnik Pushes Claymation To Its Psychedelic Limit


Hobo With Bird (2009)

 


What Awaits You (2006)

 

"Clay animation can be a magical medium when the material is allowed to be itself and not dressed up to look like something else. This is something that animators like Bruce Bickford and David Daniels understood, as does CalArts Experimental grad Allison Schulnik. The pulsating figures in her new short Mound are reminiscent of an earlier Grizzly Bear music video of hers..., but there’s also some fun new visual concepts, particularly the sequence that begins at the two-minute mark. “Mound” by Allison Schulnik "
via thecreatorsproject.com

 

A Flying Carpet, Not

"This photo was called an "accidental optical illusion" when it was posted at Reddit. I think that's a very apt description. Apart from the flag shadow paralleling the board, there's also the flagpole shadow oriented reasonably well re the microphone boom."  
via tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com