Monday, October 27, 2025

Light


The electromagnetic spectrum, with the visible portion highlighted. The bottom graph (Visible spectrum) is wavelength in units of nanometres (nm).

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Energy


A plasma globe using electrical energy to create plasma, light, heat, movement, and a faint sound

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Spain


Trilingual billboard in Barcelona (detail), showing the initial exclamation mark for Spanish, but not for Catalan (top line) and English

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Monday, September 29, 2025

Arctic Ocean


A bathymetric/topographic map of the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding lands.

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Ocean


The major oceanic zones, based on depth and biophysical conditions

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Heaven


An 1869 illustration by a Tuomatuan chief portraying nine heavens

Friday, September 26, 2025

Earth


A computer-generated image mapping the prevalence of artificial satellites and space debris around Earth in geosynchronous and low Earth orbit

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Earth


Earth's exosphere illuminated creating its geocorona, visible in ultraviolet and viewed by the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph of Apollo 16 in 1972 from the Moon's surface

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Moon


Map of the Moon coloured by the thickness of the crust, with main regions marked.
The KREEP rich magma terrane (hatched), with its most prominent part labeled on the near side (left), the Mare Procellarum KREEP Terrane (PKT).
The South Pole-Aitken Terrane (SPAT) is marked on the far side (right, largest circle).
The 24 crater basins with crustal thinning greater than 200 km (120 mi) are marked (black circles) across both hemispheres.
The rest is the high-thickness Felspathic Highlands Terrane (FHT; red and white).

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Outer Space


Being essentially empty, outer space allows the earliest (redder) galaxies to be viewed without obstruction, as in the Webb's First Deep Field image.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Friday, September 5, 2025

Outer Space


Concept for a space-based solar power system to beam energy down to Earth

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Outer Space


Illustration of Earth's atmosphere gradual transition into outer space

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Universe


The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field image shows some of the most remote galaxies visible to present technology (diagonal is ~1/10 apparent Moon diameter)

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Animals


Short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus)
Captured at Midway Atoll

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Afghanistan


Tents of Afghan nomads in the northern Badghis Province. Early peasant farming villages came into existence about 7,000 years ago.