By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Published: 18:32 BST, 18 June 2019 | Updated: 18:32 BST, 18 June 2019
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Incredible slow-motion footage of a soap bubble freezing has helped shed light on the beautiful phenomena known as the 'snow globe effect'.
This remarkable quirk of physics sees tiny crystals swarm around the surface of the bubble before eventually sticking together and freezing over.
The science behind the beautiful event has never been studied and a team from Virginia Tech in the US looked to understand the mechanism behind it.
Incredible footage of a soap bubble freezing has helped shed light on the beautiful phenomena known as the 'snow globe effect'. This remarkable quirk of physics sees tiny crystals swarm around the surface of the bubble before eventually sticking together
Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues investigated the heat transfer processes that govern the dynamics of freezing soap bubbles.
The authors write in their study, published in the journal Nature Communications: 'Droplets or puddles tend to freeze from the propagation of a single freeze front.
'In contrast, videographers have shown that as soap bubbles freeze, a plethora of
