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Beautiful... But Deadly, a colorized scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus particles budding from an infected monkey kidney cell, by John Bernbaum -
Evolution of a Tornado, a photomontage of the formation of a tornado north of Minneola, Kansas on May 24, 2016, by Jason Weingart -
Mantis Fly, a black-and-white film macrophotograph of a live mantisfly found in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona in August 1963, by Ron Sterling -
The Galaxy Within, a 10x image of cultured mouse cortical neurons and astrocytes in cell culture, by Dustin Johnsen
The results are in! The five U.S. Jury's Choice winners are displayed above; see the results announcement for more information and to see the other 20 national finalists. Five photographs from the U.S. were selected as international runners-up in their categories: Total Solar Eclipse, Beautiful... But Deadly, and Evolution of a Tornado pictured above, as well as Birefringent Water Ice and Microscope Images with Polarized Light. See the international results announcement for the full list of winners and runners-up. Thanks to all participants for their submissions!
The Wiki Science Competition is an international science photography competition being held in November 2017. Wikimedia District of Columbia is organizing the United States arm of the competition. The competition was first organized in Estonia, expanded to all of Europe in 2015, and is coming to the rest of the world this year!
To participate, you must be the author of photos you upload, and must have the rights to upload them. The photos should be of a good quality and size, and need to have a good description including what the image depicts, how and where it was made, and what is important to notice about it. It is encouraged to add the images to appropriate Commons categories. For more details, see the full international rules.
See all photographs uploaded from the U.S.! Use the hashtags 
#WSC2017 #WikiScience #WikiScience2017 to spread the word about the competition!