THE MOST AMAZING SCIENCE IMAGES OF THE WEEK XXIV

A Stunning Painting Done In A Petri Dish And Other Amazing Images From This Week
By Colin Lecher and Shaunacy Ferro, Popular Science, 8 March 2013.

Plus a "Space Invader" spotted by NASA, the latest Lamborghini, futuristic Soviet art, and more!

1. False-Colour System

Credit: NASA via Gizmodo

This is a false-colour image captured by NASA's Terra Satellite of a low-pressure system that passed near Australia this week, and holy cow, look at that. False-colour or not, the orange is incredible. [More at Gizmodo]

2. Dragon Berthing

Credit: NASA/Chris Hadfield via Discover

When SpaceX's Dragon Capsule connected to the International Space Station (with some technical difficulties), the always-amazing astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted this photo. In case you forgot for a minute how cool it is that we can send stuff to space. [More at Discover]

3. Famous Photos With Their Photographers

Credit: Tim Mantoani via Juxtapoz

For his latest book, Behind Photographs: Archiving Photographic Legends, Tim Mantoani took portraits of famous photographers with their famous photos. Here photographer Neil Leifer poses with his shot of Muhammad Ali.

4. Soviet-Era Futurism

Credit: Youth Technics via io9

What did the future look like in the Soviet Union during the '70s? Awesome, dipped in primary colours, and maybe a little optimistic. io9 has gathered some images for you to look back to the future.

5. Petri Painting

Credit: Klari Reis via Colossal

Artist Klari Reis has been creating an abstract painting every day in 2013. The twist? The paintings are all in petri dishes. If only actual bacterial cultures came out this beautiful. [More at Colossal]

6. Lamborghini Veneno

This is Lamborghini's new Veneno, part of a new line-up announced by Lambo and Ferrari. They're gorgeous cars. But also a little ridiculous. But in a good way! Anyway, they're sure to go up on a few kids' walls in the coming years. Read more here.

7. Where's Wataru?

Credit: Wataru Yamamoto via American Photo

For his project Drawing a Line, Japanese photographer Wataru Yamamoto sets up a camera and hides in the forest. See more fun (and sometimes frustrating) shots from there series over at American Photo.

8. Toe Trap

Credit: Nike via designboom

Nike's latest high-tech trainer is inspired by...a Chinese finger trap? Because everyone wants more "lockdown" on their feet when they move, apparently. It must be part of a ploy to get you stuck in a pair of Nikes forever. [More at designboom]

9. Photobombing Space Invader

Credit: NASA/ESA Acknowledgement: N. Rose

It's not every day that a 1970s arcade game character shows up in the cosmos. But that little alien from Space Invaders showed up floating around near galaxy cluster Abell 68. This Hubble image made it onto NASA's image of the day gallery earlier this week. [More at NASA]

10. Spooky Skulls

Credit: Eric Franklin via Colossal

Portland-based artist Eric Franklin created this glass skull, lit from the inside by ionized neon, krypton, and mercury. Check out the whole mesmerizing trio here.

11. A Jumping Rat

Credit: Roy Rimmer, Copyright: The Mammal Society

The winners of the annual Mammal Society Photographer of the Year Award were announced this week, and this photo from Roy Rimmer, of a rat hopping between two paint cans, took top honours.

[Source: Popular Science. Edited.]