Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side […]
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Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
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SONG: “The Road We Wander”
SONG: “The Road We Wander.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Monarch migration may become extinct,” Laboratory Equipment, 30 […]
Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month. This […]
Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb
Click to embiggen Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on […]
Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866
Click to embiggen This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British […]
Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920
Click to embiggen An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards. From The preparation of illustrations for reports […]
Science Art: Cuesta de Viento Reservoir, Argentina, by USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center.
Click to embiggen This is the EROS image of the week, because the U.S. Geological Survey believes in science-as-art, too.
SONG: “The Impossible One”
SONG: “The Impossible One” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin,” Nature, 6 January […]
Science Art: Spark Test For Hardness Of Metal, 1941
From the US Naval Research Laboratory manual Mechanical Practice. There’s also a *great* diagram of Phillips-head screws.
Science Art: The Kepler Orrery II
Click to view animation. A visualization of every solar system discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope as of February 2012 – that’s 885 plaents in […]
Science Art: Bldng40cropped.jpg (CERN office building 40), by Gillis Danielsen.
Click to embiggen This is where European scientists work on experiments for the Compact Muon Spectrometer and Atlas, the project that found the Higgs boson. […]
Science Art: Plate 721: Mus minor, Souris; Mus major, Rat from … well, ostensibly Description, vertus et usages de sept cents dix-neuf plantes…,
Rodents, as appearing in a book of medicinal herbs (619 of them?) by Etienne-Francois Geoffroy and Francois Alexandre de Garsault. Or so BioDiv Library would […]
SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn”
SONG: “Like A Rooster At Dawn” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on
Science Art: Theoria Lunae from Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius.
Click to embiggen In 1660, Dutch-German cartographer Andreas Cellarius created an atlas of the stars. This map shows how people thought the moon moved in […]
Science Art: Cumulative Absorption Spectrum, Hubble Telescope by NASA/STScI.
This is how spectroscopy works – how you can tell what’s floating around in space even when you can’t see it, only light that passes […]