On the image right, stars, gaseous filaments, and warm dust highlight a detailed infrared view of the Heart nebula.
Shi has used the fine sugar filaments, known as cotton candy in the us, to construct a scaffold of hollow polymer tubes to support natural nerve regrowth.
Braided, serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa nebula.
Dubbed the Ice Palace, the new cave lacks giant pillars, but sparkles with rare crystal formations, including minerals resembling cauliflower and fiber-optic-like filaments.
These flying reptiles were covered with thin filaments that may have looked something like the down on this pheasant chick.
If those tests are successful, the eventual plan is to fly an e-sail craft that will unfurl a circular array of up to 100 20-kilometer-long conductive filaments only 25 microns thick, Janhunen says.
Beginning on the left near the galaxy's core, the sharp panorama follows dusty filaments, interstellar gas clouds, and even individual stars toward the galaxy's edge at the right.
Some machines deposit filaments of molten plastic.
They are kernmantle constructed (outer sheath over a large number of long inner filaments), and although pricey, are used when sliding with less friction is desired.
In this deep, wide telescopic view, fainter filaments clearly extend below and to the left of the bright crescent region.
