A bundle of nerves that relays information from touch receptors on the skin to the spinal cord and ultimately the brain, imaged with the new technique (Credit: EMBL/L.Castaldi)
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View of the LHC accelerator in the tunnel
View of the LHC accelerator in the tunnel (© 2005-2017 CERN)
View of CMS detector at end of 2007
View of CMS detector at end of 2007 © 2007-2017 CERN
ALMA’s World At Night
ALMA's World At Night. This panoramic view of the Chajnantor plateau, spanning about 180 degrees from north (on the left) to south (on the right) shows the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ranged across the unearthly landscape (Credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi)
Portrait of a dramatic stellar crib*
Portrait of a Dramatic Stellar Crib. One square degree image of the Tarantula Nebula and its surroundings. The spidery nebula is seen in the upper-centre of the image (Credit: ESO/R. Fosbury (ST-ECF))
Antennae Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations
Antennae Galaxies composite of ALMA and Hubble observations (Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope)
The Helix Nebula*
This colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile (Credit: ESO)
VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way
The centre of the Milky Way (detail), as observed with the VISTA survey telescope (Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti)
The vRNA template (blue line strand) enters the polymerase active site along a tunnel (green). The template is used to make an mRNA or vRNA copy (yellow strand) by adding on RNA building blocks (red)
The vRNA template (blue line strand) enters the polymerase active site along a tunnel (green). The template is used to make an mRNA or vRNA copy (yellow strand) by adding on RNA building blocks (red) (image courtesy of Gerlach et al. (2015))
Neutrons fight against dental erosion
Graphic courtesy of ILL