December 09, 2008

Recent scientific imaging goodness

• Small worlds:
  • You won’t soon un-see this chicken embryo, among other neat micro bits. (Don’t worry, it’s not gory, just odd.)
  • Researchers have created "‘digital embryos,’ 3D visualizations of early embryonic development down to the position of individual cells and the division of those cells."
  • BibliOdyssey features beautiful drawings of micro-crustraceans from 1896.
  • Olympus has posted a gallery showing the winners of its BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. [Via]

• Cold worlds:
  • The Big Picture shows some terrific scenes from Antarctica. I dig the Nacreous clouds (no relation ;-)).
  • Flickr features as set of 19th century Arctic exploration photos. [Via]

• Big worlds:
  • Miloslav Druckmuller combined 55 shots to create this striking eclipse image. Reader Vojtech Tryhuk passed along the links and says, “[He] is using a set of software specially developed for processing of Sun eclipse photographs, all written by himself and his colleagues.”
  • The Big Picture is running a Hubble Advent calendar, adding an eye-popping new image from the space telescope each day.
  • The International Space Station is turning 10 this month, and TBP rounds up a great sampling of images. If you’re low on time, just see this shot.