The unusual and beautiful World of Snowflakes [Video]

Dec 16th 2010
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Snowflakes are just supercooled cloud droplets only 10 nanometers in diameter-ephemeral crystal structures of all sorts of shapes. In your hand, the tiny dancers disappear almost instantly. Under the telescope, they seem like giant cities from planet Krypton.

Here are a couple of of them, like ice worlds in miniature, to celebrate the holiday season. [ La boite verte via DRB ]

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