Think of a monarch butterfly, and a distinctive image pops up: black-and-orange wings, with a sprinkling of white spots around the black edges.

The Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i observed the collision and merger of two spiral galaxies 60 million light-years away, leading to a stunning image that offers a glimpse at the fate of our own ...

A scan of the wing scales of a butterfly nearing complete metamorphosis. The image on the left shows how much light the scales reflect. Anthony McDougal and Sungsam Kang ...

Butterfly wings have long fascinated scientists, ever since the first documentation of the growth of said wings back in 1938. ... To image the hindwings, ...

credit Pete Vukusic, University of ExeterFour bright blue morpho butterflies show off their color, which comes from interference of light in the nanostructure of their wing scales, not pigments on ...

Known for its shimmering blue wings, the Morpho butterfly owes its ... When she transferred to UC San Diego and joined ...

image: UC San Diego researchers are using the light-manipulating micro- and nanostructures on Morpho butterfly wings to assess the level of fibrosis in cancer biopsy samples.

Hidden Within This Wispy, Butterfly Wing–Shaped Nebula, a Star Is Born The image of a budding celestial body reveals clues as to what happens before it becomes a full-fledged star ...

A colorful mural depicting a butterfly’s wings that until recently decorated a piece of wall space of a Pacific Gas & Electric substation at the corner of 19th and San Carlos streets was defaced with ...

It pumps open its wings with the hemolymph or the blood of the insect. And that it pumps open the wings. It takes about two minutes. And then the wings harden and the insect withdraws the blood back ...

Leveraging Optical Anisotropy of the Morpho Butterfly Wing for Quantitative, Stain‐Free, and Contact‐Free Assessment of Biological Tissue Microstructures. Advanced Materials , 2025; DOI: 10. ...