Science Photos of the Week

November 24, 2009

Science Photo Library picks an intriguing image from their collection each week. Here are some of the pictures they've recently selected. Proving that science can be fun,

Intestinal gas (red, lower left) being expelled from the body. The gas shows up as red because it has recently been at body temperature, which is warmer than the surroundings

A close-up of a chicken's eye

Eye of a needle and thread, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Magnification: x65

Landspout tornado with a debris cloud, crossing a farm field. This rare, close-range photo, taken within 45 metres of the tornado, shows the violently spinning vortex. In the background is the cloud (white), from which the tornado formed

Artwork showing space debris in low and geostationary Earth orbit. Space debris includes thousands of inactive satellites, fragments of broken up spacecraft and equipment lost by astronauts. This artwork is based on density data, but is not to scale

Sweat pore, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). A sweat gland pore (red) opening onto the surface of human skin

Computer artwork of a nanorobot injecting a red blood cell. Nanotechnology is an area of science concerned with producing mechanical entities on the scale of nanometres (billionths of a metre)

Human tongue surface, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The tongue is covered in many backward facing projections called filiform papillae, which sense pressure

Scanning electron micrograph of the end of a bee's (Apis sp.) abdomen showing the stinger

Drawing of the total solar eclipse seen on 12 December 1871, showing details of the Sun's corona and its solar prominences (black protrusions). Artwork by W. H. Wesley, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society

source:TheTelegraph