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Sunlight over the snow-capped Himalayas, recorded on a CCD camera. Manoj Ku Mridha
01 Dec 2012
Cracks and bubbles in the frozen surface of Lake Alpine, Calif., U.S.A. Csaba Toth, LBNL, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A.
Perfect reflection at Badwater Basin, Death Valley, Calif., U.S.A. Philipp Jester
Refraction of sunlight and surrounding scene in a twisted jet of water. Philipp Jester
Diffraction off the surface of a compact disc. Ricardo Torres, Centro de Láseres Pulsados
A sample is processed by a femtosecond laser: The pulses are focused by means of a microscope objective inside the sample, what allows to modify some of the material properties. Rocio Borrego-Varillas, Universidad de Salamanca
Third place: The flames lack a shadow, as all of the weak plasmas are transparent in the visible. Zoltán György Horváth, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary
The flames lack a shadow, as all of the weak plasmas are transparent in the visible. Zoltán György Horváth, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary
The “wolf” moon is a full moon that occurs in January. Robert E. Schalck, Hardin Optical, U.S.A.
The moon peaks behind clouds in a nighttime scene. Robert E. Schalck, Hardin Optical, U.S.A.