Science is Beautiful

A curated collection of images and videos committed to the idea that science is beautiful. A Lab 43 Project.

[benjamingrimes-deactivated20190]

[humanoidhistory]

T-1 robot in sandbox at NASA’s Ames Research Center, 1995. (NASA)

[thedemon-hauntedworld]

STS-127 Credit:NASA

[the-group-project]

Brigid Edwards

Insect Paintings

[humanoidhistory]

“A sound that moves fast” illustrated in The Sound and Hearing World of Science, 1966. (Mondorama 2000)

[spaceexplorationphotography]

Second stage motors of a Saturn V

Source: https://imgur.com/WhOp0lU

[spaceexplorationphotography]

Earth, as seen from the Apollo 11 spaceflight.

Source: https://imgur.com/jpsxMuV

[humanoidhistory]

December 11, 1972 – Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan checks out the lunar rover at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. (NASA)

[science-is]

 Wing of a Roller by Albrecht Dürer, 1512.

[sciviz-blog]

HIV virus by Alexey Kashpersky

[itsfullofstars]

NASA Tweets in response to The Martian’s #GoldenGlobes win

[spacewatching]

This cut-away drawing shows a sting mount penetrating a model Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star with strain gauges inside the fuselage to measure aerodynamic forces.  The two 1- x 3-foot supersonic tunnels at Ames were among the first built without external balances, thus relying solely on strain gauges for force and moment measurements.  

[humanoidhistory]

Earth and the Space Shuttle Discovery, August 1997. (National Archives)

[klesey]

Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Image Credit Copyright: César Blanco González 

The Orion Nebula is among the most intensely studied celestial features.The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. 

Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.

[archenland]

Polarized Light Microscopy

This technique is used in petrology and optical mineralogy to identify rocks and minerals in thin sections.

Pictures by R. Tanaka

[infinity-imagined]

Atmosphere

[jellobiafrasays]

4 kopeks (ussr, 1962)