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K08-45auto4433.jpg
A subsonic .45 bullet fired from a handgun. There is now bow wake in this image, so the bullet is moving slower than the speed of sound. Note the pressure difference that is visible just in front of the bullet, and the ejected gunpowder is also subsonic. This image freezes the motion by using a high speed flash with a duration of 1/2,000,000th of a second.

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