Palinopsia

/pal·i·nop·sia/ (-op´se-ah) visual perseveration; the continuance of a visual sensation after the stimulus is gone.

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Massimo Vignelli's iconic (and controversial) 1972 New York subway map.

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A 1979 Mercedes-Benz 280 GE frozen in the world's biggest synthetic resin installation, meant to evoke an insect trapped in amber. Installation created by antoni.

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Close-up photos of the swirling gases of Jupiter's atmosphere, captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft over the past year.

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A tornado passes through Ixonia, Wisconsin on June 28, 2017. Photo by Joseph Frederickson.

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Flooding projections for Southern Louisiana without action to restore the coast from Louisiana's Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority.

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An election billboard with a three-dimensional visage of Benito Mussolini on the Palazzo Brunchi in Rome in 1934.

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A subway-style map of the major roads of the Roman Empire by Sasha Trubetskoy.

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The U.S. Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade fires 40mm anti-aircraft autocannons, .50-caliber machine guns, and M60 machine guns at a hillside overlooking their base in Phu Tai, Vietnam, in an effort to kill a Vietcong sniper hidden among the rocks. Long-exposure photos by James Speed Hensinger, featured in the last photo.

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Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles. The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles in diameter.

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Before and after photos of a stretch of Highway 1 near Mud Creek, California, that was destroyed by a massive landslide on May 20, 2017.

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Sales Wick, a Swiss airline pilot, captured this footage of the Milky Way from the cockpit of his airplane.

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Eruption of Costa Rica's La Poás volcano as seen by Scott Rovak from the window of a commercial flight out of San Jose on April 13, 2017.

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The Pacific Northwest as seen from the International Space Station.

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This map was created to show the defensive measures taken to protect the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, following the Vietcong’s January 30, 1968 surprise attack on the compound during the Tet Offensive. Image from the National Archives.

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Blooms are 3D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. Unlike a 3D zoetrope, which animates a sequence of small changes to objects, a bloom animates as a single self-contained sculpture. Film by John Edmark.

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Mt. Fuji in Japan, as seen from the International Space Station. Photo by NASA.

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The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center at Columbia University, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.