Science Art: Io before Jupiter.
Click to embiggen Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds. […]
Science Art
Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen In my deep-sea diving suit. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Cloud, dust storm over central China, 6-3-2002
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.
Click to embiggen slightly. Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term. From the […]
Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name […]
Science Art: Explorer I
Click to embiggen A diagram. An iconic diagram. This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on […]
Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole
Click to embiggen. A crustacean with character. From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.
Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison
Click to embiggen T. rex gets all the credit, but Allosaurus – all the various species and sizes – was really the large fierce predator […]
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this: while listening to this. In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, […]
Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)
For the first time, astronomers have snapped a photo of a planet orbiting a star like our own Sun. That’s it. Not a recreation or […]
Glowing under the wires.
Here, this is science art you can try at home: Ordinary fluorescent lights + power lines = GLOW. Really. You can do it yourself. That […]
Science Art: “Phases of the Moon” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst
Click to embiggen 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 […]
Science Art: The moon seen from above Cuba, 2-24-2005
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Tom Giesler: My Anatomy
Tom Giesler does anatomical charts of emotional states. You should see them. For a visceral thrill, you understand.