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This radiotelescope image traces the universe back to two-tenths of a microsecond after the big bang. Already the universe is several million miles across, with faint waves of energy visible. A strange jet of super-heated plasma is ejected at the bottom, which scientists theorize may come from the imperfection that caused the singularity to erupt; the escaping matter-in-the-making, some theorize, may be what went on to become the dense "dark matter" that makes up of the universe's mass Okay, that's actually not true. It's a picture I took of a dandelion seed head, then filtered in various ways in the GIMP, then reversed values. I like the first story better, though.

Playing with the 55-300 Nikkor on a D7100. Pixel peep all you want -- you'll learn nothing useful from this picture, because it was shot wide open at 300mm, with a depth of field the thickness of a sheet of onionskin. Just figure that if I have to live with dandelions, I might as well make such use of them as I can.