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…actually, it’s a pellet of “dry ice” floating on a shallow bed of dark blue water and shooting off geysers of carbon dioxide as it warms up. The dry ice is solid CO2 which sublimates directly to gas as it warms up (skipping the liquid phase altogether).

It is mesmerizing to watch. Particles glide along the surface, spin, and merge when they touch. Here is a very cool video of the icy bodies spinning and shooting around.

24 responses to “you are here”

  1. I love your science pictures. They are always intriguing.

  2. WOW…no more comments than another WOW! 🙂

  3. "Step into the vortex Beeblebrox…"
    😀

  4. so cosmic so beautiful. mesmerizing indeed. sheesh kabaab!

  5. Looks like a galaxy. Really cool, and so is the video.

  6. very very very cool!

  7. Great idea. Really impressive. Microcosmos!!

  8. a spiral galaxy in the endless universe, this reminds me of =)

  9. is your other name bill nye?

  10. Is this the new Doctor Who title sequence? 🙂 Looks fantastic!

  11. thanks y’all. you are very kind!

  12. A ‘good’ foto should be ‘fun’ to look at (sez I). This one certainly is fun! Though I’m slightly disappointed that it’s not really a foto of where we are in this galaxy…

  13. I liked the photos too. They are so abstract, and I like the science behind them. Thanks for putting in the link to the video as well.

  14. So very interesting and very beautiful !!! It reminds me of an eye!!

    Spiral theme at
    The World Through My Eyes

  15. As an admin for a group called Computer Simulations, I’d really love to have this picture in our pool…

  16. Thanks for the link to the "portable coments exhibit machine"! I’m using that film, together with a computer simulated comet, in order to teach kids what comets really are!

  17. This is great – I love the sparkling blue!


    Seen in Galaxies on Earth (?)

  18. That is so so cool and should get far more attention.

    Via your photostream on Fluidr

  19. Thank you for making this amazing shot available! I used it here: http://www.theshticks.com/2013/01/fast-nirvana.html

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