Science Art

No, this isn’t an orbital photo of Mars or a microscopic image of crystallography. It’s a photo of good old iron oxide, taken by Roger […]

Picture borrowed from the Étienne-Jules Marey biography in the Hargrave Aviation History pages. In the 1800s, Étienne-Jules Marey made a name for himself studying human […]

Hexagonal dendrite snowflake as captured by the Electron Microscopy Unit of the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

Polarization-microscope image of C-Phase liquid crystal, taken by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen."

A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.

Click for much bigger version. Panoramic photo of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, by Dan Duriscoe.

This is what a nuclear bomb looks like one millisecond after it goes off. The spikes at the bottom of the sphere illustrate what’s called […]

No, really. Discover hosted a video contest. A short film about rubber duckies won. Look: Or, go see it – and other contenders – on […]

Click for larger image For the last of our month-of-Sputnik space art posts, here’s more imagery of the hematite plains of Mars. This false-color infrared […]

The dusty hematite plains of Mars, as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is, more or less, the place where Opportunity found evidence […]

Behold the mighty propaganda of a mighty space agency! NASA’s (computer generated) video of the very big (notional) Ares V rocket, launching a Very Large […]

See more space walks (or, erm, space “surfs”) at NASA (of course), at a site belonging to someone named “Texas Jim” (showing Endeavour over Hurricane […]

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 […]