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 […]
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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.)
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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: Solar System by Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum
In the book Mysterium Comsmographicum, Johannes Kepler started mapping out how planets worked. The idea here is that the solar system is structured according to […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Tigres de Verre, by Tristran Murail.
Yes, technically not a theremin, but one of its children. Bruno Perrault played the ondes Martenot and Matteo Ramon Arevalos played the piano, recorded on […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Space Vocalise by the Armenian State Chamber Orchestra, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan soloist.
Martin Ulikhanyan composed this dreamy piece, which was recorded on 16 March 2013, conducted by Zaven Vardanyan. Ulikhanyan has a YouTube channel and a Soundcloud […]
Science Art: Topography of a Duck, by Maynard F. Reece.
From the book Waterfowl in Iowa, by Jack W. Musgrove and Mary R. Musgrove, published by the Iowa State Conservation Commission. I found this self-explanatory […]
Science Art: The Sodium D-line Observed with a Four-Prism Spectroscope by Florence Museo FirST
One of a series of videos in which white-gloved technicians from the Florence Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica (Science and Technics Foundation) operate antique scientific equipment, […]
SONG: “Kiss the Earth”
SONG: “Kiss the Earth” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest dinosaur takes first steps in 94 million […]
Science Art: Section and Elevation of Compound Oil Engine, Showing Construction.
Thus do we master the physical world. From Mechanical Engineering, a journal published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1919.
Science Art: Panties with uterus print by KnickerRocker (Nichola).
From Etsy. Scientific illustration has profound effects on some people. It surfaces in the unlikeliest places. The same lingerie-maker has some rather comely pelvis print […]
Science Art: Typical chemosensory hair of the blowfly Phormia regina Meigen, from Molecular structure and functional activity of nerve cells…., 1955
An up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s. Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Science Art: Table XXVI: The Circulatory System by Giulio de’ Musi, c. 1565.
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon”
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn and Jupiter,” Nature, […]
Science Art: Plate CCCII, Fig. A.B. Capensis, from Pieter Cramer’s De Uitlandische Kapellen, 1779
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan. The whole book is charming. From the […]
Science Art: Holocentre à grosses épines, from Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, Volume 3, 1828
A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see. This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, […]
Science Art: Broca’s Area (Brodmann’s Area 44 & 45) by Amunts K, Lenzen M, Friederici AD, Schleicher A, Morosan P, et al.
Why is this brain area important? I have no words. Found on Wikimedia Commons.