Science Art

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 […]

Behold the mighty propaganda of a mighty space agency! NASA’s (computer generated) video of the very big (notional) Ares V rocket, launching a Very Large […]

See more space walks (or, erm, space “surfs”) at NASA (of course), at a site belonging to someone named “Texas Jim” (showing Endeavour over Hurricane […]

This image from NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory shows our sun’s atmosphere in the temperature range of 1.5 million degrees Celsius. It’s part of a […]

A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch. Happy anniversary, outer space.

Click for larger version Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as […]

Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747. Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite […]

Click for larger version Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s, a time when the Dutch were using maps like never before. […]