The ruins of the Temple of Santiago are not an easy destination to visit, or even have a look at. The walls of the once sacred building are usually hiding under water, but now drought lowered the river the temple has been hiding in, revealing a rather awesome sight. Read more…
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Drought Brings a 16th-Century Mexican Temple to the Surface Again
This recently published photo of an F-35B going supersonic during twilight testing is stunning. The blue-hour moment, the burning colors of the setting sun, the ragged high altitude clouds—and the afterburner, with about ten shock diamonds . Magical. [ Lockheed Martin ] Read more…
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Shock Diamonds Are a Pilot’s Best Friend
This 3D scan shows a tangle of abnormal blood vessels beneath a patient’s skin. Their presence caused speech and vision problems, and were in danger of rupturing—which could have ended his life. Now, they’ve been removed during the course of a full face transplant. Read more…
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A Face Transplant Removed This Deadly Bundle of Blood Vessels
This beautiful satellite image shows one of the most saddening long-term natural disasters on Earth. The black patch in the upper left corner is the remaining body of the Aral Sea, located on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia—which has lost around 90 percent of its water volume since 1960 because of Soviet-era irrigation schemes. Read more…
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The Dying Aral Sea Is Like an Abstract Depiction of Human Stupidity
This is the amazing town of Epecuén . Once a booming resort city, it was drowned in 10 metres of water for 25 years after the dam protecting the town was destroyed. Only recently dried up, you can read more about the place in our photo essay from last year . [AP via New Scientist ] Read more…
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This is the amazing town of Epecuén.
When it finally rolls out of the garage, Bloodhound SSC will hit a dizzying 1, 000mph . But before it can do that, the team behind the vehicle needs to put it all together. Read more…
You’re looking at some of the most intricate images of live nerve endings ever captured, in which it’s possible to make out individual nerves and touch receptors in unprecedented detail. Read more…
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The Most Intricate Images of Live Nerves Ever Captured
Here’s something you don’t see everyday—or even every 15 years for that matter. These towering structures of ice and rock on the edge of Saturn’s middle rings are an incredible and rarely-captured sight visible only during the planet’s equinox. Read more…
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Saturn’s rings contain soaring towers of ice
At the start of this week, the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite (GOCE) fell to Earth . This is what it looked like as it happened. Read more…
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This Is What a 2,000-Pound Satellite Falling to Earth Looks Like
You might think that this image looks a little bodged together, and you’d be right to. After all, it’s literally a collage of photographs obtained by Voyager I—all the way back in 1979. Read more…
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This Is How NASA Made Composite Images Before Photoshop Existed