Our research into butterfly wings was inspired by the review article written by Vukusic and Sambles in Nature in 2003, where the authors described the nanometre-scale photonic structures in the ...
NGC 6302, a swirling cloud of dust and stars, has unfolded into a majestic butterfly-shaped nebula. According to NASA, the star at the center of this nebula is one of the hottest in the Milky Way, ...