Wonderful images exist in science, I can attest to this having taken thousands and thousands of electron micrographs of the intricacies of the myriad cells in our living bodies. It is an amazing universe, whether tiny or distant. This particular montage by Alex Parker reminds me of my days as a graduate student in anatomy, where i cut up hundreds of black and white micrographs (those i printed (yes wet processing of black and white prints) into thousands of pieces) and pasted the them each, one by one, into a 4 x 3 abstract sunburst montage.  I don’t even know where that picture is at this point, being almost 45 years in the past.  But here is a fresh version by another graduate student.. Alex Parker…  how fun this new iteration of an old obsession — sorting, ordering, recreating. It would be nice too if this were his own abstraction of the cosmos or something he designed, but it is also nice to recreate the past with the brink of inquiry.

Alex Parker has some nice videos as well, here is one. and here is another (totally amazing asteroid animation)