Stunning science imagery...

[TheHeretic]

Well, there are lots of images out there that are utterly stunning, from the micro, to the macro scale, but which are the ones that you forever find fascinating. For me, the image that I find most fascinating is the famous one used whenever gravitations lending is mentioned...



It just looks utterly unreal, and weird, but when explained, and you see the ring of images, all of the same thing on the far side, it just makes you feel tiny, and amazed. The deep field picture does the same thing.

Closer to home, the images of the sci-fi internals of the LHC looks like something from a high budget movie. Amazing piece of engineering.



So, what is your favourite?

Edited by TheHeretic on Friday 24th February 19:56

[tank slapper]

The Hubble ultra deep field. Over 10,000 galaxies visible in a very small sector of the sky:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d...

[Huff]

Astronomical imaging is teh awsum. Gravitational lensing - a very good call; staggering images that support the enormous theoretical advances made in the last 100years. I also like the imagery of our own sun arising from the SOHO project - we live in a noisy neighbourhood

At the other end of the scale, there's the increasingly common imaging of nano-scale structures, as far as the manipulation (and imaging)of single atoms.

And between the two extremes lies maybe 50 or 60 orders of magnitude.This close to the Total Perspective Vortex I need a lie down just thinking about it.

[Huff]

PS, since I didn't actually answer the question: for one single scientific image that stops me every time it is that first photo taken during the Apollo missions, looking back over the horizon towards Earthrise. Wow.

[harryowl]

Natural killer cells attcking a cancer cell


T4 Bacteriophages attacking an E.coli bacterium

[TheHeretic]

Microscopic warfare... Nice images. I've always been fascinated by the wee machines that replicate DNA. The animations of them just seem so surreal.

[Use Psychology]

some imagery from some of my science!




the dark liquid is bromine!



a nice filtration.

[TheHeretic]

Looks like some sort of ladies toy in the first pic!

[Use Psychology]

yeah, that was something i rigged up when it started to get a bit hairy.

[jmorgan]

From here

Apollo 8, no introduction needed.



From here

[MilnerR]

Some of my science:




Microtubules form a skeleton (cytoskeleton) within every cell in your body, ER refers to endoplasmic reticulum, a large reticular membrane network that uses microtubules to maintain its structure and move around inside the cell.

[TheHeretic]

You guys clearly have interesting things to look at at work. I have this..



Not at all interesting.

[miniman]

Yeah, seismic surveying is right down there in the "most mundane job ever" rankings

[Dan_1981]

For those that like the Deep Field View picture have a video to go with it.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ

Yes I know its a repost and while soem of it could be a little condescending I think in the main its a superb video.