Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
Handsome field crickets. That’s not a name for them, just me admiring them. Gryllus is a genus of field crickets. Once, they were all put […]
Click to embiggen Where the meteors come from in August and November, as pictured in A new astronomy for beginners, 1898, as found on archive.org. […]
This is a crinoid, a cousin to sea urchins, sea cucumbers and starfish. I suppose some of them have stalks like sea anemones, but these […]
Click to embiggen As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge […]
Click to embiggen A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of […]
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric bone tools used by prehistoric humans, or “Cultural additions from the double grave of Oberkasssel,” as the title reads […]
Click to embiggen This is what our Sun looked like on Thanksgiving Day. There are sunspots across the lower right of the image, visible here […]
An image of yeast, originally made by NASA (though the context is now unclear, since the web page Wikimedia Commons sourced the photo from no […]
Click to embiggen From the ESA Image Gallery, dated 28 Aug 2020, comes an image of a portion of the Cygnus supernova, a blast wave […]
A new beginning, from Elements of Philippine Agriculture on archive.org (though I found it on Flickr Commons).
Click to embiggen This is a machine for cutting through rock in a swamp. Or really, in a very broad, very shallow river – which […]
Click to embiggen A scene from the Devonian period, before dinosaurs ever emerged to rumble the earth. This lobe-finned fish measured between 8 and 15 […]
A space telescope inside a space shuttle, from the STS-67 mission. The mission summary, from archive.org, is: The Space Shuttle Endeavor, scheduled to launch March […]
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon inspired by “the experiences of Santos-Dumont,” the famed Brazilian-born aviator who maybe might have kind of sort of […]
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