Snowflake photos

nathan myhrvold spent one and a half years building the world's highest-resolution snowflake camera to take these images of snowflakes.

The quest to capture nature’s vanishing masterpieces, endowed with the delicacy of flowers and the mathematical precision of honeycombs.

Associate Museum Librarian Andrea Puccio explores some of the seasonal offerings in Thomas J. Watson Library.

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Snowflake ornaments arranged on a blue background

Snowflakes begin forming as water begins to freeze around a piece of dust or pollen or other particle suspended in a cloud. This particle becomes the seed which holds the blueprint and in a slightl…

The most symmetrical “dendrite” snowflake posted so far this year, it was completely unexpected and was the only one of its kind seen while shooting a snowfall for many hours. View large! Usually, snowflakes fall with somewhat consistent features. If you see a column crystal, chances are there are many others nearby; the same thing applies to simple plates, dendrites, or any other classification of snowflake. This entire snowfall produced the tiny plate-like and column-type crystals that I…

These intricate, one-of-a-kind ice crystals form when precipitation falls through varying levels of humidity and temperatures in the air.

Tiny snowflakes have always evoked big questions. Descartes marveled at the intricate details observable to the naked eye, which led to advances in the application of mathematics to the natural world. Johannes Kepler found snowflakes compelling enough to take a break from his groundbreaking work in