Physics Pics

Saturn and its moons

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:32:29 -0400

Saturn and its moons

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) First woman to receive a PhD...

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:29:03 -0400

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) First woman to receive a PhD in physics from Cambridge University and inventor of “invisible” (low-reflectance) glass

New map of Shackleton crater false-coloured to emphasise height...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:33:00 -0400

New map of Shackleton crater false-coloured to emphasise height (Image: NASA/M. T. Zuber and colleagues, Nature, 2012)

This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:38:28 -0400

This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:20:50 -0400

Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise was towed on the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will be permanently displayed.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Project Mercury astronauts at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia:...

Fri, 25 May 2012 05:47:11 -0400

Project Mercury astronauts at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia: (top, left to right) Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper; (bottom left to right) Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.

Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Read more: http://life.time.com/history/magnificent-seven-nasas-mercury-astronauts/#ixzz1vsCsEDNm

fyeahuniverse: Expedition 30 Soyuz TMA-03M by NASA & Carla...

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:16:05 -0400

fyeahuniverse:

^{Expedition 30 Soyuz TMA-03M by NASA & Carla Cioffi}

Nasa’s Kepler Telescope has detected 1,235 possible...

Fri, 18 May 2012 07:35:52 -0400

Nasa’s Kepler Telescope has detected 1,235 possible extra-solar planets.

Photo credit: Nasa

Snapshot of an imploding circular water wave with four...

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:49 -0400

Snapshot of an imploding circular water wave with four cylindrical obstacles in its path

Image credit: A. Shchetinina & H.D. Ng (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada)

Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, circa 1906.

Fri, 11 May 2012 06:52:46 -0400

Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, circa 1906.

This image shows the Optical Telescope Element Simulator, or...

Thu, 03 May 2012 06:02:06 -0400

This image shows the Optical Telescope Element Simulator, or OSIM, wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered into the Space Environment Simulator vacuum chamber via crane to be tested to withstand the cold temperatures of space.

Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

The ALICE Detector Photograph: Saba, Antonio

Tue, 01 May 2012 06:47:43 -0400

The ALICE Detector

Photograph: Saba, Antonio

CryoSat reveals first map of Arctic ice thickness image: Wired...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:59:53 -0400

CryoSat reveals first map of Arctic ice thickness

image: Wired http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/22/cryosat-reveals-first-map-of-arctic-ice-thickness

From CERN, neutrinos travel through around 732 kilometers of...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:40:50 -0400

From CERN, neutrinos travel through around 732 kilometers of Earth, until they arrive at the OPERA detector, buried beneath the Italian mountain of Gran Sasso

Moscow at NightMoscow appears at the center of this nighttime...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:34:05 -0400

Moscow at Night

Moscow appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles on March 28, 2012. A solar array panel for the space station is on the left side of the frame. The view is to the north-northwest from a nadir of approximately 49.4 degrees north latitude and 42.1 degrees east longitude, about 100 miles west-northwest of Volgograd. The Aurora Borealis, airglow and daybreak frame the horizon.

Image Credit: NASA

the-star-stuff: Complete time-lapse video of the Sun, spanning...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:55:16 -0400

the-star-stuff:

Complete time-lapse video of the Sun, spanning the entire months of September, October and November 2011 as seen through the SWAP ultraviolet instrument onboard the European Space Agency spacecraft Proba-2.

Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on Image Credit: ESA/Hubble...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:16:44 -0400

Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

LHC hall

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:16:51 -0400

LHC hall

Over the next three and a half years, Project NEOShield (Near...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:38:04 -0400

Over the next three and a half years, Project NEOShield (Near Earth Object Shield)will investigate how to prevent impacts by asteroids and comets. Asteroids typically approach Earth at speeds of between five and 30 kilometres per second. Thousands of near-Earth objects (NEOs) have been discovered in the past 20 years

Photograph: JPL-Caltech/NASA

Perspective view of ancient volcanic plains in the northern...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:38:48 -0400

Perspective view of ancient volcanic plains in the northern high-latitudes of Mercury revealed by instruments on board the MESSENGER spacecraft.

Image: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW-DTM/GSFC/MIT/Brown Univ/; Rendering by James Dickson