New York Times A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and telescopes. For Kim Arcand, a visualization scientist for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, visual symmetry reveals how basic physics and chemistry thread through everything in the universe, from the tiniest organisms to the most massive galactic clusters.
Microscopes might capture more in terms of magnitude, she said, but telescopes let us travel back in time by peering into the earliest periods of our universe.
Can you tell the difference between microscopic and massive?
