Pictures from the world of science, selected by Nature’s art team.
Showcased in this inaugural edition of Nature’s Images of the month: images from the hugely popular awards run by the Wellcome Trust in London; a rocket launch into an aurora; mummies with cheese; and the magnificence of the Milky Way.
GREECE is the word
Wellcome Image Awards 2014
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Drop it
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Mars in pastels
Mummies got cheese
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Engage with the Milky Way
More than 2 million images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope were needed to create this huge composite picture of the Milky Way. The 20-gigapixel infrared image was released this month and shows more than half of all the stars in the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE Team
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Cressey, D. Images of the month: March 2014. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14920
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