Check out this collection of spectacular moon photos I saw on the Mother Nature Network, and learn a bit about our solar system in the process. A lot of the photos have different filters to make them look extra special, but they are interesting nonetheless. I thought it would be cool to learn all of the moons of the solar system, but I found out there are more than 170, so that could be quite challenging. Did you know Jupiter, alone, has 63 moons!?
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Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door ,”Geology,” not completely visible.
Original size and material: 11×14 inch glass negative
North Facade of Field Columbian Museum
North Facade entrance to Field Columbian Museum building, snow on the ground. Admission Information on sign outside. Signs “Field Museum of Natural History open for visitors every day from 9am to 4pm. Admission adults 25¢ children 10¢ Free Saturdays and Sundays” and “Business Entrance South Door.” 1912.
Original size and material: 5×7 inch glass negative
South Facade with Lagoon
South facade with lagoon. Lion sculptures on outside of building from Palace of Fine Arts at Exposition. Field Columbian Museum. 1895.
Original size and material: 5×7 inch glass negative
North Court Exhibit Cases
North Court exhibit cases. European Archaeology, Egyptian and Roman artifacts, canoes. View of 2nd floor gallery, Botany exhibits and flags. Scrim (translucent fabric) covers the skylight. Field Columbian Museum. 1897.
Original size and material: 8×10 inch glass negative
Irish Deer or Elk, Hadrosaur, and Other Fossil Skeletons
Hall 36 Paleontology. Titanothere Uintathere, Irish Deer or Elk, Hadrosaur, Carcharodon fossil whale jaw with modern shark jaw for comparison. Fossil skeletons or specimens. Hadrosaur foulkii (Late Cretaceous) cast by B. Waterhouse Hawkins. All specimens on pedestals with signs that say “Hands Off”, radiators and buckets of sand for fire protection nearby. Field Columbian Museum. 1895.
Original size and material: 8×10 inch glass negative
Mesozoic Fossils
Hall 35, Mesozoic Fossils. Displayed on pedestals 19, 22, 23 are Glyptodon (armadillo) carapace, Megatherium ground sloth skeleton [verify if cast], and Colossochelys model of Atlas Turtle (Testudo atlas). Drawings of invertebrates on walls. Silurian, Devonian fossils in wood and glass exhibit cases. Field Columbian Museum. 1900.
Apparently, these animals were not even really from the Mesozoic era..?
Original size and material: 8×10 inch glass negative
Riggs and Klein with Fossil Rhinoceros Skull
Elmer S. Riggs and Mr. Klein with fossil rhinoceros skull in Paleontology Lab. Other specimens in view include mastodon or elephant, titanothere, Diornis, uintathere. Mounted limb on back wall might be Diornis. Field Columbian Museum. 1899.
Original size and material: 5×7 inch glass negative
I decided to post this series of photography because I was a big fan of the realistic moon protruding out of the wall, but I couldn’t help but include all of the old fossil pictures that I came across as well. There’s something mysterious and natural about old museums to which I’ve always related. So much of early natural history was about classifying and organizing, and I’ve always found some strange peace in that.
This moon photo was originally found on 2headedsnake via the Public Domain Review, a site dedicated to the sharing of classic works of art. Definitely take a wander through some of the other links on the Public Domain Review.
Check out this link from io9.com. There are some pretty interesting books on there. A friend of mine just gave me The Information, so I’ll let you know how that is.
And 2 of the books were featured here on RobotSpaceBrain in the past few months here & here.
Our resident ἄστρον ναύτης, Nicolas, wants to make sure that everyone knows about the biggest hole in the Universe that was discovered recently. It has a mass of 21 billion suns!! I can’t really wrap my head around that… Researchers believe that giant black holes exist in the center of all galaxies and the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole. To calculate the weight of the black holes, researchers measure the speed of bright stars moving by them. As stars travel faster, more gravity is needed to keep them from flying away.
To learn more about the discovery, go here. And if you help me understand how massive 21 billion suns might be, I’d appreciate it.
