Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Handsome field crickets. That’s not a name for them, just me admiring them. Gryllus is a genus of field crickets. Once, they were all put […]
Click to embiggen Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org. […]
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these […]
SONG: “Iron in the Sky” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on sss, 19 Nov 2020,
Click to embiggen As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge […]
Click to embiggen A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of […]
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads […]
Click to embiggen This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here […]
Originally written for piano, but more haunting in this arrangement. Supported by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
She’s probably the highest-profile thereminist on the internet, and she’s not above sharing a little wisdom. She also gives lessons over yonder: https://carolinaeyck.com/lessons. You’ve heard […]
SONG: “Six Seconds” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of […]
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no […]
Click to embiggen From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave […]
A new beginning, from Elements of Philippine Agriculture on archive.org (though I found it on Flickr Commons).
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