SubZeroArts

Simon Åslund

Miya Ando, ‘Shizen (Nature) Lavender,’ 2016, Madison Gallery

This photo, one of the winners of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC) annual photography contest, shows a rotating viscoelastic jet. Rotating liquid jets are common to many manufacturing processes, and their sometimes-wild appearance comes from a balance of gravitational forces and centrifugal force against surface tension. But because this fluid contains a small amount of polymer additive, surface tension has the additional aid of some elasticity to help hold the jet together and keep the globules and ligaments you see from flying off. As centrifugal forces fling the fluid outward, it stretches the polymer chains within the fluid, and they pull back against that tension like a stretched rubber band. To see some of the other contest winners–including other fluids entries!–check out the Guardian’s run-down. (Image credit and submission: O. Matar et al., ICL press release)

Recent photomanipulations by Felicia Simion. More posts here.

this is really late but, just some almost decent shots at nuit blanche before my camera died.

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nuit blanche toronto by photosapience on Flickr.

The device will next be tested aboard NASA’s zero gravity C-9 aircraft, and it is hoped it may be used aboard the ISS or on longer space mission in the future, such as missions to Mars.

The Rayleigh-Taylor instability can form at the interface between two liquids of different density under the influence of gravity, but a similar instability can occur in the absence of gravity. The image sequence above shows the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability, which occurs between two liquids of differing densities (regardless of their orientation) when impulsively accelerated. In this case, the experiment was conducted in a drop tower to simulate microgravity with the apparatus dropped on a spring to provide the impulse. As the instability grows, asymmetries appear.  Nonlinear dynamics will amplify these distortions, eventually leading to turbulent breakdown. (Photo credit: C. Niederhaus/NASA Glenn, J. Jacobs/University of Arizona)

Richard Heeks - Popping Bubbles

This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are NGC 6543, also known as the Cat’s Eye, NGC 7662, NGC 7009 and NGC 6826. In each case, X-ray emission from Chandra is colored purple and optical emission from the Hubble Space Telescope is colored red, green and blue.