FAVORITE IMAGES OF THE WEEK - 16

DO YOU SEE A BIRD?

This image of the Seagull Nebula's 100-light-year wingspan was NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day yesterday.

Harel Boren

MERCEDES WITH CLOAKING DEVICE

In the latest Mercedes commercial, one side of this F-Cell car has a camera recording the scenery it passes, while the other side displays that scenery on a field of LEDs, effectively letting you see through the car. Engadget has the video.

Mercedes

A DUST DEVIL ON MARS

Pictured: a Martian dust devil twisting across the Martian Amazonis Planitia region. The 100-foot-wide column of swirling air was captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last month as it passed over the northern hemisphere of Mars.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

BRICKLAYING WOMAN

Channi Anand captured this image of a female bricklayer at a plant on the outskirts of Jammu, Indian, on International Women's Day. Anand is an AP photographer based in and around India. From American Photo.

AP Photo/Channi Anand

FIRESTORM BIRTH

This image, from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, shows the chaos of star birth, dust, and collision out in the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Read more here.

NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration