Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International
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 […]
Science Art
Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare
Click to embiggen vastly From the NASA Image Galleries: On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known […]
Science Art: Spitzer Infrared Launch
The Spitzer Space Telescope being sent on its way aboard a huge, hot Delta rocket, as a honeybee might have seen it. When Spitzer launched […]
Science Art: “The Wright Brothers’ Airplane” 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: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
Click to embiggen This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) […]
Science Art: “Ericsson Taxen ritn,” Nordisk familjebok
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
Science Art: Butterfly Tongue
Click to embiggen vastly Is it smiling at you? From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Science Art: Saturn’s Aurora
Click to embiggen An ultraviolet image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, showing the vast, violent, invisible auroras around the huge planet’s poles. […]
Science Art: Coelastrum by Andrews
Simon Andrews took this microscopic photograph of a cell cluster of coelastrum algae and submitted it to Wikimedia Commons, where I found it.
Science Art: “Dirigible Balloon” 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: “Trepanerat kranium” Nordisk Familjebok
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 […]
Science Art: Success!
Click to embiggen. The Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008, and promptly took a picture of its own leg. It’s a tradition. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, […]
Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.
Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia’s “Fourth Dimension” article, where it illustrates a four-dimensional object rotating on one axis. The graphic was orginally uploaded by Jason Hise, […]
Science Art: “Rosetta Stone”
There it is – the key that unlocked ancient Egypt. One message in three alphabets. From the Library of Christian Theological Seminary, found on Wikimedia […]