Science Art: Drawing of proposed Pig Capsule, Little Joe first shot
Click to embiggen NASA serves the ham in a tray. “Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because […]
Science Art
Science Art: Tiny planets….
Click to embiggen Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog: Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are […]
Science Art: Transition of straight Nautiloidea into typical Nautilus, 1972
Click to embiggen Evolution took a winding path with the nautilus. They curled, over generations, into a spiral. In order, we’re looking at: Orthoceras, Cyrtoceras, […]
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
Science Art: Zanclus cornatus and Acanthurus nigra, by Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta.
Click to embiggen Two fish from one of the first collections of X-ray photographs, published in Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen, 1896. From […]
Science Art: Cymatics, by Nigel Stanford
I’m not really that much of an electronica fan – at least not danceable electronic music – but this video is kind of awesome. I […]
Science Art: Lidar-derived digital surface and elevation models of a stream channel, by the USGS
Click to embiggen This is the earth under a stream inside a forest in Iowa, with all the trees and the water digitally removed. Or […]
Science Art: Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers, c. 1850.
Click to embiggen. A goache painting from the Wellcome Collection. A rather polite setting of research equipment with a bouquet. No idea whose, or what […]
Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).
Click to embiggen This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was. From the image’s description on […]
Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes […]
Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact. And snipe hunting was a real thing, too. […]
Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]