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A juvenile saltwater crocodile kicking around the coral reefs of Kimbe Bay in Papua New Guinea (finalist). Photographer: Justin Gilligan Source: Supplied
FROM the fading tendrils of a long-exploded star to the new connections between nerve cells in our brains, these are some of Australia’s best science photos.
As part of Australia’s most comprehensive national science awards, three finalists and seven highly commended images have been selected for the Australian Museum New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography.
The Eureka Prizes reward excellence in research and innovation, leadership, science communication and journalism, and school science.
Check out the pictures below.
A tiny parasitic wasp caught in 10-20 million year old dark Cape York amber (highly commended). Photographer: Geoff Thompson Source: Supplied
A jumping spider just hanging around (highly commended). Photographer: James Dorey Source: Supplied
A faint accumulation of dust and gas, drifting in knots across a wide area of space in the constellation of Vela (highly commended). Photographer: Paul Haese Source: Supplied
An imaging of a tiny plant seed (highly commended). Photographer: Seedy Volunteers Source: Supplied
Sapphirine is the name given by science to this beautiful micro-crustacean (highly commended). Photographer: Julian Uribe-Palomino Source: Supplied
This thorny-headed worm popped out from a cyst on an Eel Tailed Catfish (finalist). Photographer: Aileen Elliot Source: Supplied
The new connections between nerve cells in our brains (highly commended). Photographer: Dr Victor Anggono Source: Supplied
Soft corals (finalist) Photographer: Gary Cranitch Source: Supplied
The focus of nonlinear waves, like shock waves, is always spread out so that the pressure and temperature amplification in the focal area is limited. This sequence of interferograms graphically illustrates this imperfect focusing (highly commended). Photographer: Harald Kleine Source: Supplied