Astronomers are marking the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope with a “ portrait of a firestorm of starbirth in a neighboring galaxy” –… Read the rest “Science Art: Cosmic Reef, by the Hubble Space Telescope”
No gunpowder was harmed in the making of this photograph. That’s just the power of a lot of magnetism making a hunk of metal go really, really fast through the air. … Read the rest “Science Art: Photograph taken from a high-speed video camera during a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun (EMRG)…, 2008.”
Not a landscape, nor a texture, but an electrical conductor.
From Mr. Pervan’s explanation on Wikimedia Commons:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 3D Printed Copper Surface, vol. 1, by David Pervan, 2018.”My research is on using 3D printing to make conductive
From the USGS:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Aerial image and satellite derived image of Florida lakes, by Richard P. Stumpf, U.S. Geological Survey.”This image is a cropped rendition of two aerial images that demonstrate satellite-derived cyanobacteria concentrations in surface waters from an area
The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. Knipe (with illustrations… Read the rest “Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.”
From 1675 until his death in 1719, John Flamsteed worked at the newly built Greenwich Observatory, charting the stars in the sky. He was England’s first Astronomer… Read the rest “Science Art: Hemisphere Austral, XVIII from Atlas Coelestis, by John Flamsteed, 1729.”
From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the British Library Photostream.
The Bessemer… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-Cooling of the Converter, 1891”
A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the military … Read the rest “Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).”
Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the The American Radio … Read the rest “Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916”
Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut.
This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis Side-Located Controller During… Read the rest “Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.”
These are from Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition: 1898-1899, the first of two volumes on jellyfish written by Ernst Vanhöffen, a jellyfish scholar… Read the rest “Science Art: Taf. II: Palephyra indica, Atorella subglobosa, Sanderia malayensis, 1902.”
This is a video of a mouse, not yet born, that already has some issues; specifically “Waardenburg-Anophthalmia Syndrome.” It’s originally… Read the rest “Science Art: Optical projection tomography: OPT analysis of Smoc1 expression in wild-type E9.5 mouse embryo, 2011”
Mushrooms you can trust. I think.
From the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Flickr collection “Edible and poisonous mushrooms: what to eat and … Read the rest “Science Art: Plate 7: Sweetbread, Horn of Plenty, Puffball, Chanterelle, from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms, 1894.”
This is half of a stereoscopic image of the surface of Mars. The other half is here, if you want to line them up, one in each eye, and see the Chasma in all its depth and … Read the rest “Science Art: Ophir Chasma, ESP_062483_1755, by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory HiRise.”
This is a fusion reactor that was never built, a small power plant that takes the principles of a tokamak (use super-heated plasma to generate more power than you put into… Read the rest “Science Art: Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS), 2007”
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