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Related: About this forumA few favorite snowflake photos
By Eleanor Imster in EARTH | HUMAN WORLD | January 27, 2019
We asked last week at EarthSky Community Photos for your snowflake images, then sat back and were dazzled by the beautiful and amazing photos you posted!
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https://earthsky.org/earth/best-snowflakes-photos-from-earthsky-friends
KT2000
(20,577 posts)how beautiful they are.
thinkingagain
(906 posts)Thank you for the link
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)Much nicer!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)be so symmetrical and perfect?
flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)Those determine how the ice crystals grow, and the flake is small enough that those conditions are almost the same. Any other flake will have a different history for those conditions, and so that flake will look different.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Nature is simply amazing.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Dust particles probably also. Each of the legs is a record of the conditions in which it formed, they are not perfectly alike.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)originated because nobody could ever look at every snowflake?
oldlibdem
(330 posts)I was expecting to see loosers in MAGA hats crying about gun rights.