It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreThis is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreStarfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
2…
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”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreClick to embiggen It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada. Have you heard? They come back every […]
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what […]
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space. You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or […]
In 1863, naturalist Richard Owen published 72 pages of joy. Is it related to the lemur? Aye. Does it climb through the jungle at night? […]
Click to embiggen This may be an important historical record of the early days of aeronautics, or it may be a vivid fantasy by a […]
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” […]
Click to embiggen I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an […]
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern tongues”, […]
Click to embiggen. Originally published in A naturalist’s sojourn in Jamaica, by Philip Gosse, who had awesome sideburns. And a relationship with M&N Hanhart, prolific […]
This came from a series of supplements in California textbooks in the 1960s – the peak of the Space Race. This is an image of […]
This device is “a regulateur des intermittences”, according to La Nature. I’m not sure what “intermittences” are exactly, but Gustave Trouvet was going to fix […]
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
SONG: “In the Light” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate”, New Scientist, 18 January […]
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