Science Art: PIA18353: Janus and Tethys by Cassini (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
Click to embiggen A big moon and a little moon, orbiting Saturn. Moons like Tethys (660 miles or 1,062 kilometers across) are large enough that […]
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Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Geology, by Brad Paisley
Yeah, this was just rebroadcast on Prairie Home Companion this weekend. But why not? A pretty good country song that does everything you’d want a […]
Science Art: Maladieu du Cheval, by François Robichon de la Guérinière.
Click to embiggen A horse, looking well. From Manuel vétérinaire, ou traité sur les Maladies du Cheval, et sur les remédes qu’on doit employer pour […]
Science Art: Flaming Storms on the Sun’s Face
First found on dthorne books. I’m guessing this came from a very old Scientific American (maybe 1930s?), but can’t really say for sure. Welcome, 2016.
Science Art: Acanthophracta (detail) by Ernst Haeckel.
There’s a star in the East….
SONG: Aware of Emptiness
SONG: “Aware of Emptiness.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “China’s dark-matter satellite launches era of space science”, Nature, 17 Dec 2015, as used in the […]
Science Art: XLII: Milky Way from Mythographi Latini by Thomas Munckerus/Hyginus, 1681.
Click to embiggen This is the Early Modern Milky Way, as appearing in an edition of the ‘Poeticon Astronomicon‘ by the Latin author Hyginus (although […]
Science Art: From Legal Chemistry: A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., 1884.
I found this elegant (if obscure) glassware at the public domain image repository at Reusable Art. I’m guessing it was used to detect poisons more […]
Science Art: Space Launch System Takes Flight
Click to embiggen The Space Launch System (SLS) is the rocket that NASA plans to send to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars. It’s a big […]
Science Art: Ecphora gardnerae, by J.C. McConnell
Click to embiggen A shellfish that was around when megalodons swam and the first crows flew. It was drawn by J.C. McConnell, a doctor who […]
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct […]
Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.
Click to embiggen In 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine wanted its readers to be up to date on the very latest in technological advances, including this machine […]
SONG: All Praise Black Ice
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as […]
Science Art: Taf. V: Feuer-Salamander by Bruno Dürigen.
Fire salamanders. They don’t look so hot. [via]
Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York
Click to embiggen Welcome to Wellcome. They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more […]