Science Art

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of shells about twice the size of grains of salt, embedded in sand.

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Happy Valentine’s Day. From deep inside my heart.

If you want to know more about the strange imagery you’ve just seen, there’s a narrated version here, but the words … Read the rest “The Inner Life of a Cell.”

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Photo by: _{the National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation, as well as Cornell astronomers}… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings”

Schlieren texture of a liquid crystal nematic phase.

What does that mean? This page will help explain.

Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.

A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."

This is an Environmental Protection Agency photograph from the Great Lakes Image Collection, showing green algae up close.

Phytoplankton like this makes up the base of the food chain –… Read the rest “Science Art: Pediastrum boryanum”

A dandelion seed pod seen up close, photographed by Richard Bartz.

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Also, unrelated to the above, you really should check out more science art at io9.com, a blog that’s kind… Read the rest “Science Art: Taraxacum Ruderalia by Bartz”

A drawing of a human egg cell, from Gray’s Anatomy (the book, not the TV show). From its description quoted on Wikipedia:

Human ovum examined fresh in the liquor folliculi. (Waldeyer.)

The so-called Bad Astronomer picked the top 10 astronomy pictures of 2007.

Go and see them.

They’re beautiful.

At the very center of this giant, staring eye is a white dwarf star. It’s located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.

The image was taken by NASA’s Spitzer… Read the rest “Science Art: The Helix Nebula”

Found via Barbelith. More on the film is available at palebluefilms.com.

Good Yule, fellow dot-fractions. Stay warm during this longest night. … Read the rest “The Pale Blue Dot”

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Submitted by Jean Lapointe to the annual micrography contest of the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication … Read the rest “Science art: Hazardous, by Jean Lapointe”

No, this isn’t an orbital photo of Mars or a microscopic image of crystallography. It’s a photo of good old iron oxide, taken by Roger McLassus.