Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.
Click to embiggen From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28. It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of […]
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Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Linear Motor Velocity Detection Apparatus, by James L. Johnson and Harold C. Stephens, 1969
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center
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 […]
Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.
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 […]
Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel
Click to embiggen This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope […]
Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854
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 […]
Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory
Click to embiggen This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the […]
Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz
It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, […]
Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.
Click to embiggen Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) […]
Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it: An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side […]
Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month. This […]
Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb
Click to embiggen Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on […]
Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866
Click to embiggen This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British […]