One of my favorite blog sites lately is The Big Picture, on boston.com. Its mission: to bring you big pictures. Big gorgeous pictures of awesome.
Three recent updates, all with a science-y bent, have especially caught my attention lately. They’re all worth a few minutes, as is everything they post
Views of Jupiter, “as seen by various probes and telescopes over the past 30 years.” Includes mindblowing views of the planet, several of its moons, and its rings revealed by an eclipse.
Volcanoes!! Truly awesome (in both senses) pictures of volcanic activity taken from earth, air, and space.
The Large Hadron Collidor at CERN in the late stages of assembly. The pictures are amazing, not least because of the sheer scale (a 27-kilometer circumference), but also because they’re the most science-fictiony pictures of actual science I think I’ve ever seen. You could totally believe they’re installing a Stargate or preparing a fully operational battle station.