Science Art: Discovery’s Final Launch, by @Crooooow’s girlfriend.
Click to embiggen Reddit user Crooooow was flying from Florida to Chicago when the pilot announced that passengers could see something interesting out of the […]
Science Art
Science Art: Japanese Red-Bellied Newt (Cynopus pyrrhogaster), from NASA’s IML-2
This Japanese Red-Bellied Newt was part of the payload aboard the Space Shuttle’s STS-65 mission, which carried a few odd creatures into orbit for the […]
Science Art: Western Equine Encephalitis Virus Taken With Cryo-Electron Microscope
This is the infectious microbe (alive? not alive? who knows?) that causes Western equine encephalitis. It’s a deadly virus. I can remember when they said […]
Science Art: “Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine,” from One Hundred Years’ Progress of the United States, 1871
Click to embiggen Beautiful machine for skilled labor. You can browse the whole illustrated encyclopedia of fin de siecle technology at archive.org. [via Old Book […]
Science Art: Azerbaijan stamp, 500m – Marine gastropod Corolla spectabilis, May 1995.
The whole collection of Azerbaijan collectors’ stamps is full of scientific illustration treasure – butterflies, dirigibles, mushrooms…. And “treasure” is not an exaggeration. 500 Azerbaijan […]
Science Art: Aerostatic Cabriolet of Tomorrow, by Harry Grant Dart, c. 1905.
Click to embiggen Harry Grant Dart was an illustrator, newspaperman and creator of “The Explorigator” comic strip… and a man in the suffragette era who […]
Science Art: PIA13755: Textures of ‘Santa Maria’ Crater, Sol 2476 , Mars Rover Opportunity & NASA.
Click to embiggen The Mars Rover Opportunity considers the textures of the Santa Maria crater on its 2,746th day on Mars. There are no footprints […]
Science Art: Alligator and Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian
An illustration by Maria Sibylla Graff Merian, daughter of an engraver, step-daughter of a painter and careful observer of the natural world. She carefully documented […]
Look inside.
This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… […]
Science Art: Ion Engine Test Firing, NASA-JPL
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: This image of a xenon ion engine, photographed through a port of the vacuum chamber where it […]
Science Art: Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz
Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in […]
Science Art: Figure 22, from Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Science Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
Science Art: Resplendent Trogon, J.G. Wood’s Illustrated Natural History 1898
Click to embiggen This is the resplendent trogon, a Mexican bird known formally, nowadays, as Pharomachrus mocinno, and once upon a time as Trogon resplendens. […]
Science Art: The Geologic Time Spiral, by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy.
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral. Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the […]