Physics Pics

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

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

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

Photo credit: Nasa

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.

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

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 Earth, until they arrive at the OPERA detector, buried beneath the Italian mountain of Gran Sasso