Posts tagged: illo
The heliospheric current sheet results from the influence of the Sun’s rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium (solar wind). The wavy spiral shape has been likened to a ballerina’s skirt. Wikipedia
Astronomers Using Keck Observatory Discover Rain Falling from Saturn’s rings
Keck Observatory, 2013
via Warren Ellis
Speed: the World Salutes Each New Victor!
The Austin Company, 1930. Detail from a fairly small ad.
via Paul Malon on flickr
Space Telescope or Transformer?
NASA Goddard Photo and Video, 2013
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court.
Note: The Webb telescope has 21 mirrors, with 18 primary mirror segments working together as one large 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror. For an idea of the scale of the telescope, here is an image of 6 of the primary mirror segments:

Fond d’écran pour Arte et La Blogothèque : Le futur selon vous.
via Jimmy Beaulieu
The acetylene welder
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1917
Lithograph, 475 x 375mm
Image via War Art, New Zealand
A T4 virus about to insert its genes into a microbe.
Seyet LLC, 2008
More details at The Loom. via carlzimmer
A frame from a Seyet LLC-generated visualization based on research by Michael Rossmann, the Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences in Purdue’s College of Science. The image depicts Rossmann’s research on the T4 virus as it penetrates the cell membrane of the E. coli bacterium, which the virus infects. Purdue.edu