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Drawn by Branko Grünbaum, this is a 7-set Venn Diagram [source: https://t.co/GqxVROGGob]. Santiago Ortoz made an interactive version of it: https://t.co/eUvdUxn17N
During the 18 months of the Great Plague (1665-1666), Isaac Newton conceived calculus, set foundations for his theory of light and color, worked on laws of planetary motion, and legend has it, experienced his inspiration of gravity with the falling apple https://t.co/lytNlAbpMI
This combination of 3 wavelengths of light from NASA's SDO shows one of the multiple jets that led to a series of slow coronal puffs on January 17, 2013. The light, colorized in red, green and blue, gives the Sun a deeply peculiar appearance [read more: https://t.co/VKU98dJuDG]
Dylan Gibson illustrates books and stories for older children and reluctant readers. This image was created to help visualize how far time goes back in Earth's history from modern day to its earliest period https://t.co/oY9FquWI6r [the auhtor's site: https://t.co/WECh0VVMuG]
Perhaps one of the most stunning, legendary images of the Jupiter system, was taken by @NASAVoyager 1 exactly 43 years ago #Today https://t.co/rxo2AKksCe
Born 458 years ago #Today, Galileo Galilei was a polymath & a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution https://t.co/ZygiA3BuZF [gif: https://t.co/afOzFVbN9N]
In case Mercator projections have ruined your perception of continents' scales, this is the true size of Africa [source, read more: https://t.co/oq9VKExEMx] [hi-res: https://t.co/5U4F8Xorsh]
Born #Today in 1736, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer, made significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics https://t.co/CE3D5pSzYh
Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet [source, read more: https://t.co/SzOKqc3EuQ]
Using long exposure photography and a custom built lighting rig covered in colored gels, Daniel Mercadante created what he calls Rainbow Roads [read more: https://t.co/TdckQMTtCc]