Favorite Science Pictures

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I've always found that the study of the world around us yields beautiful pictures. Post your favorite science related pics here. Mine is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

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I've always been impressed with fungi under the microscope...

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I put a piece of bread that had sprouted different colors of mold under the microscope once. A very pretty forest was revealed to me. Too bad it doesn't smell as good as it looks!!
 
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The image that Rosalind Franklin created with x-ray crystallography that made Watson and Crick realize that DNA was in the form of a double helix.

Doesn't it just give you shivers to look at it?
 
I can't post images, but I like the picture of the 1919 solar eclipse. It shows almost nothing, but it proved (okay, the picture didn't prove it, but the event did) something... erm... universal!:D
 
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<------- Thin-section cross-section of Leptotriticites tumida.

I found it. I sawed it in half. I glued it to a glass slide. I ground it and polished it thinner than a sheet of paper. I took the photo, developed the negative, made the print.

I like it.
 
Jellyfish! Jellyfish! jellyfish! They are amazing!
Like this:
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Tanja said:
Jellyfish! Jellyfish! jellyfish! They are amazing!
Like this:[qimg]http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Fish/southflorida/everglades/glossary/images/jellyfish.JPG[/qimg]
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ohhh you just reminded me of the amazing jellyfish tank at the Mandalay Bay aquarium in Vegas. Totally mesmerising.
 
PIA00452.jpg

In 1990, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets it had visited.
NASA ultimately compiled 60 images from this unique event into a mosaic of the Solar System.
One image Voyager returned was of Earth, 4 billion miles distant, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo.
The minute speck was nearly lost in the glare of the Sun.

This photo inspired Carl Sagan to write "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" in 1994 - in it, he writes:

Look again at that dot.
That's here.
That's home.
That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
 
vbloke said:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00452.jpg
In 1990, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets it had visited.
NASA ultimately compiled 60 images from this unique event into a mosaic of the Solar System.
One image Voyager returned was of Earth, 4 billion miles distant, showing up as a "pale blue dot" in the grainy photo.
The minute speck was nearly lost in the glare of the Sun.

This photo inspired Carl Sagan to write "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" in 1994 - in it, he writes:

Look again at that dot.
That's here.
That's home.
That's us.
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Click to expand...

w00t Carl.
 
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