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Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones.
On Mar 16, Earth’s most sophisticated telescopes were briefly blinded by a flash of gamma rays.… Read the rest “Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst”
Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Tom Giesler does anatomical charts of emotional states.
You should see them. For a visceral thrill, you understand.
Does anyone else remember these from Insects Do The Strangest Things? Oh, what a fine children’s book that is.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English … Read the rest “Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International”
From the NASA Image Galleries:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare”On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known as EV Lacertae. This flare was
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch”When Spitzer launched Monday, 25 August 2003 at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT from Cape
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars”
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
Is it smiling at you?
From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
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An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. Like the auroras… Read the rest “Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora”
Simon Andrews took this microscopic photograph of a cell cluster of coelastrum algae and submitted it to Wikimedia Commons, where I found it.
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
A trepanned skull, from Nordisk Familjebok Encyclopedia, found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Trepanation is a bit of an archaeological mystery, apparently carried… Read the rest “Science Art: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok”
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