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Category: Photos

100 days in Glacier National Park

4 December, 2009 (03:00) | Other science, Photos |

The Big Picture: 100 days in Glacier National Park is a collection culled from the blog/journal of the same name. The Big Picture has bigger pictures (imagine that) but the journal has more annotations.

People, Places and Nature

25 November, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Science-general |

The Big Picture: National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009

Candid Photography, but No Swimming Costumes

21 November, 2009 (03:00) | Other science, Photos |

Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners
You can view these and more entries at the BioScapes gallery, but the pictures aren’t as large.

What’s the Insurance Cost?

20 November, 2009 (03:00) | Photos |

Flickr: Street Legal Bumpercars

Got Him Now

17 November, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Satire |

CSI Zoom Story

Get Your Eyeballs to Mars

9 November, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics |

The Big Picture: Martian landscapes

Wait! That’s Not All!

6 November, 2009 (06:35) | Math, Photos, Physics | 3 comments

Rhett’s got a post up on parallax, and how you can use this effect to measure distance: Parallax, what is it good for? He’s got some pictures showing the effect of viewing from different vantage points.
The other thing you can do with such photos is to make stereograms, and I’ve taken the liberty [...]

Feeling Crabby

27 October, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics |

APOD: The Crab Nebula

Saturn at Equinox

21 October, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics |

The Big Picture: Saturn at equinox
Checking in with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox. During the equinox, the sunlight casts long shadows across Saturn’s rings, highlighting previously known phenomena and [...]

Halloween Must Be Coming Soon

13 October, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Weird |

Only service spiders allowed in store

Exploring the Neighborhood

12 October, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Physics, Science-general |

50 years of space exploration

That’s a Nice Arabidopsis thaliana You’ve Got There

11 October, 2009 (03:00) | Photos, Science-general |

Sorry, that’s just some biology small-talk
2009 Small World photography winners

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