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Hamid Kellay’s bubbles look like Jupiter.

Photos of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption by Sigurður Stefnisson
The phonautograph, invented by Édouard-Léon Scott, made the first sound recordings, which have only recently been replayed.

The phonautograph, invented by Édouard-Léon Scott, made the first sound recordings, which have only recently been replayed.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
— Robert Bringhurst
(from The Elements of Typographic Style)
A solar system music box made by Luke Twyman.
You don’t really feel you own something until you give it away.
Omega and other nebulæ
The mysterious Nomura’s Jellyfish grows up to six feet and weighs 200kg. Thousands mass off the coast of Japan.

The mysterious Nomura’s Jellyfish grows up to six feet and weighs 200kg. Thousands mass off the coast of Japan.

Unconventional typography and other art by Tommy Grace
Antonio Saliba’s Celestial Map, c. 1603

Antonio Saliba’s Celestial Map, c. 1603

Ètienne Trouvelot’s Manual of Astronomical Drawings, published in 1882

Ètienne Trouvelot’s Manual of Astronomical Drawings, published in 1882

The rotor blades of a sikorsky helecopter photographed by Andreas Feininger in 1949

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