Courtesy Image: Michael Oliveri

What you are looking at is a landscape from the nano world, i.e. at the atomic level. In this case, it is a photo of zinc oxide nanorods being produced in a furnace burning at 600°C (1,100°F). The rods are 50 to 150 nanometers in diameter. In case you’ re still wondering what all these measurements mean, objects in the nano world typically are up to 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The photos are the work of Michael Oliveri, University of Georgia digital media professor, who uses a scanning electron microscope to capture these images. He combines up to 40 smaller images to create the panoramas.

Read the article and view more nono world photos at: Scientific American.

From WellcomeCollection

The 11th Wellcome Image Awards were announced on 23 February 2011, recognising the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images among recent acquisitions to Wellcome Images, as chosen by a panel of judges. The winning images are on display in Wellcome Collection until 10 July 2011.

This video gives an insight into the judging process.

The SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey III) is a digital camera that is being retired to the Smithsonian as part of its astronomy collection. It is the world’s largest digital camera, at 138-megapixels, attached to a 2.5-metre telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

In 1998, it started capturing data (144 pieces of information for every galaxy) such as name, position in the sky, colour and shape of every galaxy in the observed universe. Out of all this data, astronomers have pieced together the largest digital colour picture ever made of the night sky — built from more than a trillion pixels.

Read the article at: Toronto Star.

Well, just finished shovelling the snow from my driveway. Where did it all come from? Take a look at photos from NASA taken from space.

Winter 2011 Snowstorm

Winter 2011 Snowstorm

See more photos at: NASA.

Brazil's Uncontacted Tribe - © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival www.uncontactedtribes.org

Brazil’s National Indian Foundation has released pictures of Brazil’s uncontacted tribe to Survival International in an effort to ramp up pressure on Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon. In one picture we can clearly see some of their food staples: manioc (cassava), papaya and banana.

See more pictures at: Survival International.

Learn more at: Uncontacted Tribes

Source: CNN

The New York Public Library celebrates 30 years of photography.

On a sleepless night, Chris Kotsiopoulos wondered what 24 hours would look in one photo. So he stayed up all night to photograph star trails in the sky and 24 hours later, the above photo including day and night is the result.

Read the article at: Earth Science.

Photographer Steve Mellon takes several pictures over a brief period of time on a Gateway Clipper boat, then stitches them together in a computer for a beautiful pano.

View the pano at: Post-Gazette.