I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking leaves that are even tastier. (I … Read the rest “Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller”
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Look! Look at all the birds!
I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”
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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.
It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”
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This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la creation de l’homme, “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.”
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all that great stuff… especially signal-to-noise… Read the rest “Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.”
This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope was able to see that it’s “ablaze… Read the rest “Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel”
This is the face of the man who was ROBBED by the third episode of Cosmos. Planetary motion? Elliptical orbits? Not Newton’s ideas – this guy’s.
And the story of how he … Read the rest “Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854”
This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.
Edwin … Read the rest “Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory”
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, these shapes make us feel bad.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.
Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of
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