The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, February 13-17, 2012

By Dan Nosowitz

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The Rosette Nebula, chosen as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day earlier this week, is the perfect Valentine's Day space object, because it's pretty and it sort of looks like a rose. Read more at NASA's site. Brian Davis

Happy Valentine’s Week! Have a space rose. Or a cube that tells you the weather outside by touch, that’s a good gift, right? Or the tiniest most adorable chameleon ever found, or…you know what, just click through and check out the most amazing images of the week. They are, as the headline suggests, amazing.

Click to see the most amazing science images of the week.

Mandy Barker
ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/A. Hacar et al./Digitized Sky Survey 2
Cryoscope
Yu Kyung Ha, Won Min Jung, and Kwon Young Hee
Glaw et al/PLoS One
Matthias Lenke
via RussiaTrek
Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
NASA
 
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Dan Nosowitz

Dan Nosowitz is a freelance writer and editor who has written for Popular Science, The Awl, Gizmodo, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere. He holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University and currently lives in Brooklyn, because he has a beard and glasses and that's the law. You can follow him on Twitter.