{"id":1960,"date":"2018-10-25T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2018-11-05T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:19:32","slug":"art-science-x-science-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/art-science-x-science-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Art &#038; Science (X) &#8211; Science pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Vision, and the means to capture it \u2013 photography \u2013 plays a momentous role in science.<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I was much impressed by a remark of Aldous Huxley, that <strong>we owe our civilization largely to the fact that vision is an objective sense<\/strong>. An animal with an olfactory sense or with hearing, however well developed, could never have created science. A smell is either good or bad, and even hearing is never entirely neutral; music can convey emotions with an immediateness of which the sober visual arts are inca pable. No wonder that the very word \u201cobjective\u201d has been appropriated by optics.<br \/>\nDennis Gabor \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/assets\/archive\/gabor1951.pdf\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/assets\/archive\/gabor1951.pdf']);\" >Light and Information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>It is therefore fitting to take a look at all the great pictures that have been recorded by all means.<\/div>\n<div>Here is a selection of scientific picture competitions and galleries you might want to have a look at:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/', 'Nikon Small World']);\" >Nikon Small World<\/a> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/10\/photographing-the-microscopic-winners-nikon-small-world-2018\/572737\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/10\/photographing-the-microscopic-winners-nikon-small-world-2018\/572737\/', '2018&#8217;s gallery']);\" >2018&#8217;s gallery<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rps-science.org\/events\/International-Images-for-Science\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/rps-science.org\/events\/International-Images-for-Science\/', 'Royal Photographic Society International Images for Science']);\" >Royal Photographic Society International Images for Science<\/a> (here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/aug\/21\/rps-international-images-for-science-competition-shortlist-in-pictures\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/aug\/21\/rps-international-images-for-science-competition-shortlist-in-pictures', '2017 subgallery']);\" >2017 subgallery<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/epsrc.ukri.org\/newsevents\/events\/photocomp2017\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/epsrc.ukri.org\/newsevents\/events\/photocomp2017\/', ' Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition']);\" > Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition<\/a> (here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/apr\/03\/from-eureka-to-equipment-images-that-show-another-side-of-science-in-pictures-epsrc-photo-competition-2017\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/apr\/03\/from-eureka-to-equipment-images-that-show-another-side-of-science-in-pictures-epsrc-photo-competition-2017', '2017 Gallery']);\" >2017 Gallery<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2016\/mar\/21\/award-winning-images-of-science-in-action\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2016\/mar\/21\/award-winning-images-of-science-in-action', '2016 Gallery']);\" >2016 Gallery<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/what-we-do\/our-work\/photography-prize\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/what-we-do\/our-work\/photography-prize', 'Wellcome image awards']);\" >Wellcome image awards<\/a> (here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/mar\/15\/stunning-science-wellcome-image-awards-2017-winners-in-pictures\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2017\/mar\/15\/stunning-science-wellcome-image-awards-2017-winners-in-pictures', '2017 Gallery']);\" >2017 Gallery<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\/insight-astronomy-photographer-year\/exhibition\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\/insight-astronomy-photographer-year\/exhibition', 'Insight Investment Astronomy']);\" >Insight Investment Astronomy<\/a> (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2018\/jul\/19\/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2018-shortlist-in-pictures\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/gallery\/2018\/jul\/19\/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2018-shortlist-in-pictures', '2018 gallery']);\" >2018 gallery<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeolusa.com\/HOME\/Misc\/JEOL-USA-Image-Contest-Entries-Winners\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.jeolusa.com\/HOME\/Misc\/JEOL-USA-Image-Contest-Entries-Winners', 'JEOL Image Contest']);\" >JEOL Image Contest<\/a> (Electronic micrograph competition)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eipbn.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.eipbn.org\/', 'EIPBN Micrograph contest']);\" >EIPBN Micrograph contest<\/a> (scroll down on website)<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrs.org\/science-as-art\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.mrs.org\/science-as-art', 'Materials Research Society']);\" >Materials Research Society<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sciencephoto\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/sciencephoto', '@SciencePhoto']);\" >@SciencePhoto<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/categories\/photography\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/categories\/photography\/', 'The Atlantic']);\" >The Atlantic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/photography\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/photography', 'The Guardian']);\" >The Guardian<\/a> usually have beautiful galleries.<a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pattern_recognition.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1967 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pattern_recognition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pattern_recognition.jpg 500w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pattern_recognition-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pattern_recognition-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>Astronomy is an obvious domain where picture are breathtaking, but more so is space imaging.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are some amazing pictures from the past few years:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/new-horizons-top-10-pluto-pics\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/new-horizons-top-10-pluto-pics', 'NASA New Horizon flight over Pluto']);\" >NASA New Horizon flight over Pluto<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/images\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/images\/index.html', 'NASA Cassini Mission']);\" >NASA Cassini Mission<\/a> (moon of Saturn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/article\/cassini-and-the-rings-of-saturn\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/article\/cassini-and-the-rings-of-saturn', 'ref2']);\" >ref2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/data\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov\/data\/', 'NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory']);\" >NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory<\/a> (SDO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/juno\/images\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/juno\/images\/index.html', 'NASA Juno Mission']);\" >NASA Juno Mission<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/01\/gorgeous-images-of-the-planet-jupiter\/550595\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2018\/01\/gorgeous-images-of-the-planet-jupiter\/550595\/', 'flight over Jupiter']);\" >flight over Jupiter<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/gaia\/60192-gaia-creates-richest-star-map-of-our-galaxy-and-beyond\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/gaia\/60192-gaia-creates-richest-star-map-of-our-galaxy-and-beyond\/', 'ESA Gaia']);\" >ESA Gaia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><!--more--><\/p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSVv40M2aks\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The attack of the drones<\/h3><p>Drones are also becoming more and more interesting&#8230;<\/p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=20&v=KlvUxxQdZy8<\/p>And there&#8217;s always the fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/video+friday\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/video+friday', 'IEEE Spectrum Video Friday']);\" >IEEE Spectrum Video Friday<\/a>, and their recent <a href=\"https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/', 'robot gallery']);\" >robot gallery<\/a>.<\/p>I recently figured out that my former colleague Jean-Baptiste Masson, who now works at Institut Paster, is developing Virtual Reality for Data Exploration, with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/juno\/images\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/juno\/images\/index.html', 'DIVA project']);\" >DIVA project<\/a>.<\/p>&nbsp;<\/p>And the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1963\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\" wp-image-1963\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars-768x1151.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mars.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mars, seen from Earth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1964\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1964\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1964\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon-1024x640.png 1024w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon-300x188.png 300w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon-768x480.png 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth_from_moon.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth, seen from the moon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1965\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1965\" class=\" wp-image-1965\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails-913x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails-913x1024.jpg 913w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails-268x300.jpg 268w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails-768x861.jpg 768w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Windfarm-star-trails.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windfarm star trails (from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision, and the means to capture it \u2013 photography \u2013 plays a momentous role in science. I was much impressed by a remark of Aldous Huxley, that we owe our civilization largely to the fact that vision is an objective sense. An animal with an olfactory sense or with hearing, however well developed, could never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,37,14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-science","category-english","category-gallery","category-projects","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}