Science Art

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 […]

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 […]

Found via Barbelith. More on the film is available at palebluefilms.com. Good Yule, fellow dot-fractions. Stay warm during this longest night.

Click for larger image Submitted by Jean Lapointe to the annual micrography contest of the International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and […]

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 […]

Picture borrowed from the Étienne-Jules Marey biography in the Hargrave Aviation History pages. In the 1800s, Étienne-Jules Marey made a name for himself studying human […]

Hexagonal dendrite snowflake as captured by the Electron Microscopy Unit of the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

Polarization-microscope image of C-Phase liquid crystal, taken by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen."

A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.

Click for much bigger version. Panoramic photo of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, by Dan Duriscoe.

This is what a nuclear bomb looks like one millisecond after it goes off. The spikes at the bottom of the sphere illustrate what’s called […]

No, really. Discover hosted a video contest. A short film about rubber duckies won. Look: Or, go see it – and other contenders – on […]

Click for larger image For the last of our month-of-Sputnik space art posts, here’s more imagery of the hematite plains of Mars. This false-color infrared […]

The dusty hematite plains of Mars, as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is, more or less, the place where Opportunity found evidence […]