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Acari trapped in spiderweb
With this persona of an Acari spider mite hanging from a thin strand of a spider ’s web in the Chilean temperate woods , lensman Bernardo Segura , of the University of Chile , snag honorable mention in the Micro - Imaging class of the competition . The vane , spun byAustrochilusspiders , have some ribbon with sensational bluish tones .
Diamond ring through thin clouds
IPhotographer Wei - Feng Xue go the rare hazard to observe a total solar eclipse along the path of totality in northerly Georgia on Aug. 21 , 2017 . His gorgeous ikon of the Great American Eclipse , with the sunshine ’s corona show up like a diamond ring , snagged stolon - up in the Astronomy category . To capture the crack , Xue used a Canon EOS6D digital SLR camera with an EF 70 - 200 mm + 2x extender .
Pele’s fire
Using a 55 - 300 mm Tele lens , lensman Sabrine Koehler of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa won honorable cite in the Earth Science and Climatology category of the 2017 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition and collect a sensational figure of the mogul of the 61 g lava flow at the current Pu’u O’o eruption site of the Kilauea volcano . The term " 61 g " mention to the seventh flow ( indicate by letter of the alphabet of the ABCs ) in the sequence of event that make up the so - called 61st instalment of the current eruption from the East Rift Zone of Kilauea , agree to the U.S. Geological Survey .
Toss the scorpion
In Tadoba , India , photographer Susmita Datta capture an image of a rascally Amerind roller bird play with its morning collation , a scorpion . The image , taken during a morning safari on the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve using a Canon 60D with a Sigma 150 - 500 lens , brought an honorable mention in the Behavior category to the lensman .
Within Reach
Over ESO ’s Paranal Observatory , the sky echo crude on weewee with the many colors blending into an shimmering skyscape .
The range of a function , have our own Milky Way arch across the Chilean Nox sky with the Very Large Telescope off in the far space , advance photographer Petr Horálek an honorable citation in the Astronomy category of the 2017 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition .
