A magnetic field visualized
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Early Bird Special: “This Is Our Planet,” by Croatian 18-year-old Tomislav Safundžić, was created from imagery captured by NASA at the International Space Station.
Wow.
It’s not what you think it is
The origin of high-energy particles in astrophysics is still a mystery. Annihilation of magnetic field lines of opposite orientation, a process known as “magnetic reconnection,” may convert the magnetic energy into particle energy. In this process, the magnetic field will end up being confined within magnetic islands (represented as red blobs in this image), with high-energy particles meandering among the islands (represented as yellow tracks in this image). Although this image has nothing to do with biology, it carries astonishing visual similarity with the very first burst of energy in human life.
— Lorenzo Sironi (GS), Anatoly Spitkovsky (fac)
Department of Astrophysical Sciences
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Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder by Nike Savvas was a 2005 installation made up of hundreds of bouncy balls suspended on strings.
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Thomas Deerinck,
HeLa (cancer) cells (300X)
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research
University of California, San Diego
Can’t find an artist for this. But its called ‘5 Million Dollars, 1 Tereabyte’ and is on display at Art 404 gallery.
Comparable to Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ this is a ready made for the digital age .This external hard drive contains $5 million worth of digital stolen media resulting in asking us questions about the nature of content and value itself.
A full list of its content is available here.
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This isn’t some expressionist painting of the moon. No instead NASA have colorised the moon to indicate the various minerals and chemicals that make up its pock marked surface.
Bright pinkish areas are highlands materials, such as those surrounding the oval lava-filled Crisium impact basin toward the bottom of the picture. Blue to orange shades indicate volcanic lava flows. To the left of Crisium, the dark blue Mare Tranquillitatis is richer in titanium than the green and orange maria above it. Thin mineral-rich soils associated with relatively recent impacts are represented by light blue colors; the youngest craters have prominent blue rays extending from them.
A rather beautiful example of pendulums of various lengths resulting in various forms of harmonic motion and aliasing. Kinetic art with Harvard’s approval.
A Drop in the Ocean, 2011 by Pery Burge
Some nice oil/soap/pigments work here by Pery Burge. Click through for some more satisfying imagery on flickr.
