Haunting Photos Of The Inner Workings Of Space Tools

Usually , the focussing of space photography is on have us see close - up views of far off thing we could never see otherwise . But what happens when the focus of the camera is turned onto the tools of the trade themselves ?

That ’s the premiss of Chris O’Leary ’s Cloud Chambers project , which he share with us in ourmost late edition of io9 show and tell . He described it as way to “ document the infrastructure of astrophysics ( dark affair detectors , gamma re telescopes , etc ) . ”

From thisclose up face at a cloud chamberhoused in the Griffith ’s observation tower ( like you see below ) to this combined image of the Cygnus configuration with data grabbed on that sameconstellation from the Drift II Dark Matter Detector(like you see above ) , it ’s a neat perspective shift inwards on the tools that are teaching us about space .