This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift – they took two days to orbit Earth before getting… Read the rest “Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky”
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From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who helped found… Read the rest “Science Art: Growth of Egg of Hen, c. 16th century.”
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into a point; a spinning black… Read the rest “Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)”
Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, including cameos by Merlin Sylvestris,… Read the rest “Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889”
Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful microscope and seeing what’s… Read the rest “Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922”
Big birds haven’t changed too much since 1931.
These are:
Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon.
This image is part of a page of “Cosmic Meteorological Landscapes” that are all… Read the rest “Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.”
The answer, from the US Geological Survey’s Facebook page, is an algal bloom in Lake Erie, as photographed by Landsat:
… Read the rest “Science Art: What is that green gunk?, USGS/NASA, 2 Nov 2017”In late September, Earth-observing satellites
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Money! Monkey money!
This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think it has any *actual* DNA… Read the rest “Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.”
More astronaut optimism, less everything else.
From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.”Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Seeing what we hear, in 1892. Did they have oscilloscopes in 1892? I don’t think they did. But they could visualize this.
At any rate, I found this via Nemfrog in Sound… Read the rest “Science Art: Sound Vibrations, 1892”
A hydraulic organ from the 17th century, as commemorated by Athanasius Kircher. It has a robotic skeleton! And a waterwheel!
There are some more wondrous instruments … Read the rest “Science Art: Kircher’s fanciful design for a hydraulic organ, complete with dancing skeleton, from Musurgia Universalis, 1650.”
I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, and though it seems to have been used in an Earth Archives article with a morbid title, it originally came from the artist’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Momma Oryctrodromeus stays in the burrow with her babies…., by Julio Lacerda”
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