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Scientific illustration of a spacecraft with wing-like solar-panel arrays that's foregrounded against a roughly spherical asteroid, crater-scarred, against the backdrop of space.

Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026

2 November 2026 grant 0

From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio: This illustration depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Launched in October 2023, the Psyche mission will explore a metal-rich asteroid of […]

A scientific illustration of the molecular structure of iron as a cube-shaped crystal of atoms, a "body-centered crystal lattice."

Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009

26 October 2026 grant 0

If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecular diagram of the cubic […]

A NASA poster about the moon, with an astronaut, a lunar lander, and some other spacecraft-adjacent equipment on the airless surface of an alien world. .

Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023

19 October 2026 grant 0

It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equipment, as well as what I make out as […]

A cloud chamber's spiraling traces of subatomic particles, aqua blue curves against a goldenrod backdrop.

Science Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026

12 October 2026 grant 0

This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-century eyes. As it says on […]

Scientific illustration of starfish anatomy

Science Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.

5 October 2026 grant 0

Starfish anatomy. If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are: Legend 1 Arm 2 Ampullae 3 Radial canal 4 Gonads […]

scientific illustration of comet orbits around the sun, compared with the relatively circular orbit of Earth.

Science Art: Jupiter’s Family of Comets, 1898

28 September 2026 grant 0

This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a little more. It’s […]

Scientific illustration of a bathysphere by Leo Wehrli, showing deep-sea creatures as known in the 1930s.

Science Art: Beebe’s Bathysphäre, 1934

21 September 2026 grant 0

This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was created by Swiss explorer/geologist/teacher/photographer Leo Wehrli… maybe. […]

Two circular images of geometric objects revealed under an electron microscope.

Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955

14 September 2026 grant 0

These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes. As the caption from Popular Electronics says (found here, on archive.org): A fossil particle was […]

A vividly red drawing of cayenne pepper in an old encyclopedia of health, listing red pepper as a cure for la grippe.

Science Art: Red Pepper, 1910.

7 September 2026 grant 0

Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least now we say it […]

A grid of line drawings, precise and geometrical, of rotary piston engines and pumps, designed in the late 1800s. The patterns of steampunk.

Science Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.

31 August 2026 grant 0

This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details : employed in the design […]

Scientific illustration of an elephant seal skeleton, white bones on a blue background, as if it's swimming.

Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell

17 August 2026 grant 0

This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty as a northern elephant seal. They […]

Scientific illustration of musicians playing jazz and an audio waveform; part of a 1960s ad for professional audio tape from Ampex.

Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.

10 August 2026 grant 0

This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found on archive.org) that also bore […]

Scientific illustration of brilliantly colored nebulae in the depths of space.

Science Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025

3 August 2026 grant 0

This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on their own aren’t […]

Scientific illustration of the heart as a simple diagram of a muscle around an empty space, the valve between ventricle and atrium opening like a flower blooming.

Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch

27 July 2026 grant 0

This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the four views of an echocardiogram, and […]

Scientific illustration of a homemade lie detector in use: a man with a bow tie and pocket protector against a lurid green background sits at a table beside a pair of electric boxes with wires leading to electrodes taped to his fingertips.

Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955

20 July 2026 grant 0

This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, on archive.org — and, […]