Fascinating Science: 10 Best Works from the Royal Photographic Society Scientific Photography Competition 2019

The works of the photographers shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society competition will be shown from October 7 to January 5 this year at the Science Museum in London. The winner of the prestigious competition will be announced on October 7, 2019. The works of everyone of any age and level of professionalism are accepted for the competition. The Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853 in London (Great Britain).

This little beetle is a pest in stored grain and flour products.

The photo was taken in the Himalayas in Nepal on Lake Gosaikunda at an altitude of 4400 meters. The Milky Way is a galaxy containing our solar system, the name of which describes the appearance of the galaxy from Earth: a vague band of light visible in the night sky, formed from stars that cannot be individually discerned by the naked eye.

In the photo you can see microscopic jellyfish that feed on plankton.

Bubbles optimize space and minimize their surface area for a given volume of air. This phenomenon makes them a useful tool in many areas of research, in particular in the field of materials science and "packaging" — how things fit together. The walls of the bubbles drain under gravity, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, which prevents moving light waves from creating stripes of color. The black spots indicate that the wall is too thin, indicating that the bubble is about to burst

On January 21, earthlings observed a supermoon — the moment when the full Moon approaches the Earth at a distance of less than 362 thousand kilometers, and the difference between the perigee and the full moon does not exceed three days. The photographer saw this phenomenon in her own way.

Her last major project was a master's degree in photography at Falmouth University, which focused on the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis. Crawford says that through exploring perspectives, complexities, and scientific interdisciplinary collaboration, she creates images that explain, reveal, and consciously connect us to the ambiguous and unknown.

The photo shows a safety pin connected to a high-voltage alternating current generator. The pin glows thanks to photons that appear in ionized air.

"I've been fascinated by the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank ever since I went on a school trip," says Bradshaw. She wanted to take a series of closer, more detailed shots showing the wear and tear, she adds.

The photographer used light microscopy with a magnification of five times.

The North America nebula, NGC7000, is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The remarkable shape of the nebula resembles the shape of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico