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Category: Photos

Up Close and Personal

3 July, 2009 (03:00) | Other science, Photos, Tech | No comments

Gigapan collection of electron-microscope images of an ant
Gigapan: Ant - Eutetramorium mocquerysi
This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take high resolution images of very small things.
More at the Nano Gigapan blog
Also ant-related Mr. Ellis, Ant mega-colony takes over world
[I]t now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the [...]

I in the Sky

28 June, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Science-general | No comments

The Big Picture: Recent scenes from the ISS

Northern Exposure. Southern, too.

21 June, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics | No comments

Pictured: Dazzling images of the Northern and Southern Lights taken from space

Troubles Melt like Lemon Drops

17 June, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics | No comments

18 Beautiful Rainbows from Around the World
And one more from Niskayuna, which comes with a physics explanation

Gelett Burgess’s Stove

2 June, 2009 (10:55) | Photos, Physics, photography | 1 comment

I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
but I can tell you anyhow;
I’d rather see than be one!
I modified a webcam to allow IR photography, but didn’t think to take a picture like the one Matt has displayed, in which a stove’s heating element glows purple (when viewed with his camera), just [...]

Nighttime Sky Over Death Valley

31 May, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics | 1 comment

Panorama of the nighttime sky over Death Valley. You can see the Milky Way as the arc in the center.

Not Sunspots

18 May, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics | No comments

flickr: STS-125 Atlantis and Hubble Solar Transit

Synchronicity

13 May, 2009 (04:00) | Geocaching, Photos, photography | No comments

I was browsing the web and ran across this Gigapixel image of downtown Vancouver. I used to live there — not downtown, since my postdoc salary wouldn’t support that — but I opened it to see if I recognized the area. And I did, but not from when I lived there. [...]

Letchery

4 May, 2009 (03:56) | Other science, Photos | No comments

Beautiful Waterfalls of Letchworth State Park
Beautiful Waterfalls of Treman State Park
Beautiful Waterfalls of Watkins Glen State Park
I may just have to visit some of these on my next trip to western NY.

What You’re Missing

3 May, 2009 (05:04) | Photos, Physics | No comments

Flickr: Light pollution: It’s not pretty
The preceding is sarcasm. Orem, UT is hardly a large city. This is intended to highlight the fact that light pollution is a problem everywhere, not just in cities with tens of millions of inhabitants.
Unlike some other forms of pollution, you can’t just pick up your photons when you’re [...]

New, with Even More Big

24 April, 2009 (10:52) | Photos, Science-general | No comments

A twofer. The Big Picture: Cassini’s continued mission and Earth Day 2009

Seeing in the Dark

9 April, 2009 (04:11) | Photos, photography | No comments

On Saturday after the Open House, I stopped off at the Marine Corps memorial (depicting the flag-raising at Iwo Jima) to take some long-exposure photos. (”Long” in this case is ~5 seconds) I pass by it every day going to and from work, but had never actually stopped. Lots of tourists [...]

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