Science Art

This image from NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory shows our sun’s atmosphere in the temperature range of 1.5 million degrees Celsius. It’s part of a […]

A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch. Happy anniversary, outer space.

Click for larger version Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as […]

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747. Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite […]

Click for larger version Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s, a time when the Dutch were using maps like never before. […]

From NASA’s collection of 1970s space colony art. There are much larger versions available in their archive. —- Bonus link: the Living Room of the […]

from Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Picture Archives, (via Barbelith).

Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in […]

Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves. I quite like the octopus….

from The Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph, 1881.

Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel. More incredible illustrations by him here.