Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Summary A microphotograph of a "Dendrite Star" one of the seven basic shapes of snowflakes, photographed by Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931), known the world ...

No two snowflakes are alike, and that’s even more true in the arctic temperatures we are seeing this week. These photos capture up-close images of snowflakes that fell recently in Kansas City ...

Twin snowflakes have been grown in a lab, where temperature and humidity are closely controlled, but that’s a bit of a cheat. Why is some snow light and fluffy and some is heavy? The story of ...

This allowed ideal, atmospheric conditions to create beautiful dendrites that "danced across the skies of southern Ontario." Additional tweets of the picturesque snowfall that illuminated the ...

Wilson A. Bentley first became fascinated with snow during his childhood on a Vermont farm, and he experimented for years with ways to view individual snowflakes in order to study their crystalline ...

How do snowflakes form? Is each snowflake really unique? Why is some snow light and fluffy or heavy? The amazing science of snow The Canadian Press Published Jan 13, 2023 4 minute read ...

Jennifer Rossi caught some amazing images of singular dendrite snowflakes during Saturday's light snow. Dendrites are snow crystals with branches that resemble a tree.

Meteorologists are "mainly expecting" dendrites in Milwaukee throughout the storm, NWS Milwaukee wrote on X. These snowflakes form when the temperature is 5 degrees or below and the humidity is ...

The anatomy of a snowflake is an interesting one and has been researched for hundreds of years. In the 1800s, Wilson Bentley, known as “Snowflake Bentley” used his microscope to study and ...