How about starting a thread which celebrates beauty and nature and life and science. Share images you find captivating or meaningful or just simply beautiful. I’ll start:



The Spitzer Space Telescope caught this awesome image of comets colliding in the Helix Nebula (the red is the comet dust). It’s likened to the red pupil at the center of a green monster's eye.





This beautiful animal is a sea slug. It’s one of these soft bodied, shell-less molluscs called Nudibranchs.

An aye-aye
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An omnivore Strepsirrhini native to Madagascar, perhaps a descendant of Darwinius masillae, also called "Ida"?

It's got your eyes... (or is it ears?)





this one's really electrifying:

M.C. Escher, one of my favourite painters...

Nice...I like him too...



the wonders of modern photography:

AMAZING

casandra on Jun 8 2009, 11:35 AM said:

hobglobin on Jun 9 2009, 05:26 AM said:

this is nature or science?

one of Martin Amm's dew-covered insects.......described as bugs with bling....

Some Agar plate art... by ??



and a wreath from Dr Tsien (?), I guess it needs no more description.

Nabi on Jun 9 2009, 10:25 AM said:

Both....I think the hand is natural, and isn't crystal ball gazing a tried and true science? Post your pics BB.........