Science Art: Pioneer F/G Jupiter Missions, 1970.
Click to embiggen. A gorgeous vintage diagram of NASA’s deep space probe’s trajectory. The NASA image archive page says: This image, drawn in 1970, is […]
Science Art
Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932
These are the volumes of the hand, Babelfish tells me… although “baender” also means “bands” (like the FM radio band), or ligaments. Image found in […]
Science Art: Some NACA Muroc personnel with snowman, 1949.
Click to embiggen In the good old days, computers looked like this. “Computer” was a job, not a tool, and it was often done by […]
Science Art: Planet Earth, Seen by the Apollo 11.
Click to embiggen On July 22, 1969, when Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong were on their way home after going as far away […]
Science Art: The Apollo 11 Launch.
Click to embiggen This is a Saturn V rocket, the largest, heaviest vehicle ever to hurl itself from our small ball of mud into the […]
Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)
Click to embiggen vastly This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches […]
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Science Art: Aphis Wolf, from Webster’s New International
This is the aphis wolf, or aphid lion, or, in other words, either the larva of the much less-threateningly named ladybug or lacewing. This particular […]
Science Art: Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus, by Cassini.
Click to embiggen vastly This is Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons that might harbor life. That nearly geometric blue pattern on its surface is called […]
Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.
(Larger version here.) This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon. More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent […]
Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006
Click to embiggen slightly On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – […]
Science Art: Gustave Whitehead on the #21, by Dick Howell
Gustave Whitehead was a Bavarian immigrant to Connecticut who in all likelihood made a steam-powered machine fly for more than half a mile in 1899 […]
I’ve been saying it all along.
This science comic tells the truth. They do, you know.
Science Art: Mort de Harris (1824), from the Tissandier Collection at the Library of Congress.
Click to embiggen. The Death of Harris, who jumped from a hydrogen balloon in 1824. It was not a “perfectly good balloon,” as the sky […]
Paul Calle’s Apollo sketches
In 1969, NASA artist Paul Calle followed the Apollo astronauts as they prepared to climb into a capsule and ride a rocket to the moon. […]