Cosmic Cloud

Every year, Princeton chooses the best science art images of the...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:39:00 +0100

East-West, West-East by Martin Jucker, Jury First Place

Photon's eye view Emily Grace (graduate student), Christine Pappas (graduate student), Benjamin Schmitt (University of Pennsylvania), Laura Newburgh (postdoc) Department of Physics

People's Second Place: Bridging the Gap Jason Wexler (graduate student) and Howard A. Stone (faculty) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Light eddies Mitchell A. Nahmias (graduate student) and Paul R. Prucnal (faculty) Department of Electrical Engineering

Maze dweller Chhaya Werner '14 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

C. instagram Meredith Wright '13 Department of Molecular Biology (Murphy Lab)

Every year, Princeton chooses the best science art images of the year — here are some of the previous year’s best images.

“Titan has so much interesting activity - like flowing...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:30:00 +0100

“Titan has so much interesting activity - like flowing liquids and moving sand dunes - but to understand these processes it’s useful to know how the terrain slopes,” said Ralph Lorenz, a member of the Cassini radar team based at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., who led the map-design team.

“With this new topographic map, one of the most fascinating and dynamic worlds in our solar system now pops out in 3-D,” said Steve Wall, the deputy team lead of Cassini’s radar team, based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “On Earth, rivers, volcanoes and even weather are closely related to heights of surfaces - we’re now eager to see what we can learn from them on Titan.”

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Wed, 08 May 2013 10:00:20 +0100

What kind of clouds are these? Known informally as Undulatus...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:55:49 +0000

What kind of clouds are these? Known informally as Undulatus asperatus clouds, they can be stunning in appearance, unusual in occurrence, are relatively unstudied, and have even been suggested as a new type of cloud. The above image, taken above Hanmer Springs in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2005, shows great detail partly because sunlight illuminates the undulating clouds from the side.

Hurricane Nebula

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:47:44 +0000

Hurricane Nebula

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Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:45:17 +0000

"By Allah I don’t fear for you poverty, but I fear that the world would be abundant for you as it has..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:19:01 +0000

““By Allah I don’t fear for you poverty, but I fear that the world would be abundant for you as it has been for those before you, so you compete for it as they have competed for it, so it destroys you as it has destroyed them.””

- Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم

The Year’s Best Visualizations of Scientific...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:40:43 +0000

"Connectivity of a Cognitive Computer Based on the Macaque Brain"

"Cerebral Infiltration"

"Biomineral Single Crystals"

The Year’s Best Visualizations of Scientific Concepts

“Every year for the last decade, the National Science Foundation has teamed up with the journal Science to co-sponsor the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The competition recognizes scientists and artists who use visual media to communicate, and promote the understanding of, scientific research.”

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:16:56 +0000

Butterfly Nebula

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:27:41 +0000

Butterfly Nebula

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference is in full...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:55:04 +0000

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference is in full swing in Long Beach, Calif., and this morning’s sessions can be summarized as follows: There’s more exoplanets than you can shake an exostick at.

Earth-Sized Alien Worlds Orbit One in Six Stars: About 17 percent — one in six — of Kepler’s target stars have Earth-sized worlds orbiting closer to their parent stars than where Mercury orbits the sun.

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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:54:08 +0000

The Crusades Part 2 - Cannibals? - Islamic History Podcast...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:33:37 +0000

The Crusades Part 2 - Cannibals? - Islamic History Podcast #2
This video is for the Lost Islamic History podcast. This episode looks at the continued Crusader march through Muslim lands on their way to Jerusalem from 1098 to 1099. We will see the massacre and cannibalism of the city of Maarrat al-Numan and the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099.

The Crusades Part 1 - The Fall Of Antioch - Islamic History...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:27:08 +0000

The Crusades Part 1 - The Fall Of Antioch - Islamic History Podcast #1
This video is for the Lost Islamic History podcast. This episode looks at the causes of the Crusades and the early march of the Crusaders through Muslim territory and the lead up to the capture of Jerusalem.

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Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:43:58 +0000

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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:16:58 +0000

The first-ever image of a massive river system on another...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:52:00 +0000

The first-ever image of a massive river system on another world.

This image was taken by the space probe Cassini, and shows what appears to be a massive river system on Saturn’s moon Titan.

The European Space Agency reports that it flows 400 km across the cloudy moon’s surface, where it meets a large sea. This is most likely a river made of liquid ethane or methane, not water. Though previous Cassini observations of Titan revealed what appeared to be seasonal lakes there, this is the first confirmation we’ve had that the moon also has long, meandering rivers that form tributaries just like water does on Earth.

Infographic of The Worlds Oldest Trees by Vienna-based graphic...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:40:44 +0000

Infographic of The Worlds Oldest Trees by Vienna-based graphic designer Michæl Paukner.
The lines of this chart connect the world’s oldest trees to their geographical place of origin.

The #KnowMuhammad Campaign. #MyProphetMuhammad...

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:00:00 +0000

The #KnowMuhammad Campaign.
#MyProphetMuhammad
#OurProphetOurHonour

That bright dot in the center of this image is Hercules A, a...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:00:26 +0000

That bright dot in the center of this image is Hercules A, a galaxy located over two billion light-years from Earth. But what really dominates the scene are the two gargantuan jets of plasma shooting out of Hercules A.

The plasma jets themselves are each over a million light-years long, meaning you could lay ten copies of the entire Milky Way end-to-end inside each one of the jets. The jets themselves aren’t visible in the wavelengths we’re used to — they only show up when this area of space is imaged in radio waves.