Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit here is by Janice Carr (photo credit) and Connie Flowers, Pamela Munn (content provider), found on Asknature.org.
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of Feb. 24, 2014. This composite image shows the sun in ultraviolet light with wavelength of both 131 and 171 Angstroms.
“X-class” means as powerful as solar flares get. [...]
SONG: “The Road We Wander.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,” Laboratory Equipment, 30 January 2014, as used in the post “Monarch migration may be over. Forever.”
ABSTRACT: This song coincided with me listening to a lot of new Balkan music. I [...]
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.
This is the seventh entry, a caseasaur named Cotylorhynchus. It might look like a salamander, but could weigh nearly 4,500 pounds and measured up to 20 feet long.
They ate plants, but nobody messed with [...]
Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million years before the Cretaceous said “buh-bye” to T. rex and the rest).
Ischigualastia wasn’t really a dinosaur, but a dicynodont, a “mammal-like reptile”.
This guy was drawn by [...]
This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins that’s more of an encyclopedia discussing various aurochs, mastodons and other critters who trundled across prehistoric Britain.
Ovibos moschatus is a musk ox.
An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards.
This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
SONG: “The Impossible One” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,” Nature, 6 January 2014, as used in the post “Earth-like planets might not be so Earth-like… as gassy Earth shows” (with a dash of “The impossible planet” sprinkled on for seasoning).
ABSTRACT: Singing [...]
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