Science Art: STEREO’s SECCHI-Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, 5 March 2007
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 […]
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 […]
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson. At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 […]
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.
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