Swans on Tea

ISS Solar Transit

Why yes. Yes it is. Refracted, not stirred. Flickr photo

The Frame: Space shuttle Endeavour’s mission to the space station

Caleb Charland photos
Science-y effects and interesting takes on science demonstrations.

Pictured: Incredible gravity-defying ant that can carry 100 times its body weight
The photo shows an Asian weaver ant hanging upside down on a glass-like surface and holding a 500mg weight in its jaws. It was captured by Dr Thomas Endlein of Zoology department at the University of Cambridge who was investigating the sticky feet [...]

Endeavour night launch
And a video
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I remember seeing the first night launch from Orlando. But these are from a slightly closer vantage point.

Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets [...]

More virtual vacation visits. 360º Panoramic view from Mt. Everest
The Great Wall
Rio
Machu Picchu – Peru

Solar eclipse picture, showing the Sun’s corona.
Composition of 38 eclipse images. Eclipse images calibrated by means of dark frames and flat-fields, aligned by means of phase correlation, composed by means of LDIC 5.0 software, processed using Corona 4.1 in order to visualize coronal structures.

Guns and roses: The photographer who literally shoots his subjects
Flavour explosion: Cherry tomatoes dipped in liquid nitrogen made for stunning results. The artist shot both red and yellow varieties

That’s ice fishing

Face of a Southern Yellowjacket Queen (Vespula squamosa)