Portal talk:Science/Featured picture

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Being bold, I am going to maintain the science portal's featured picture from now on. Here is a queue that I have selected. Add and comment on them, please. I am thinking updating the picture weekly. Change the order as you please for they are in the order I found them.

1. Image:Gallium1_640x480.jpg - March 1, 2006 (Gallium)
2. Image:Lightning hits tree - NOAA.jpg - April 28, 2006 (Lightning) (deleted, found not to be originally taken from NOAA)
3. Image:PICT0111.JPG - May 4, 2006 (Chemical vapor deposition apparatus)
4. Image:Photos-photos_1087592507_Energy_Arc.jpg - May 15, 2006 (Plasma).
5. Image:2006-01-14_Rust_and_dirt.jpg - May 24, 2006 (Rust and dirt).
6. Image:Sonoluminescence.png - June 9, 2006 (Sonoluminescence stages).
7. Image:ASTP_Saturn_IB.jpg - June 24, 2006 (Saturn V rocket).
8. Image:Lightning simulator questacon02.jpg - July 21, 2006 (Tesla coil discharging)
9. Image:Craniometry_skull_1902.jpg - July 31, 2006 (Skull measuring device)
10. Image:Railgun-1.png - August 8, 2006 (Railgun schematic)
11. Image:Deep_Impact_HRI.jpeg -August 16, 2006 (Deep Impact)
12. Image:Crepuscualr_ray_sunset_at_Pearl_Harbor.jpg - August 26, 2006 (Crespuscular rays)
13. Image:Milky_Way_2005.jpg - November 14, 2006
    

    
14. Image:Hotairballooninflation.jpg - Hot air balloon being inflated
15. Image:Moon_merged_small.jpg - Moon
16. Image:User-FastFission-brain.gif - Animated MRI
17. Image:Lavoisiers_lab.jpg - Laboratory
18. Image:Summer_Solstice_Sunrise_over_Stonehenge_2005.jpg - Summer solstice over Stonehenge
19. Image:Incandescence.jpg
20. Image:Snle-snle-ng-svg.svg
21. Image:Soda_bubbles_macro.jpg - Bubbles in a soft drink.
22. Image:Hall_effect.png - Hall effect.
23. Image:C-141_Starlifter_contrail.jpg - Contrails in Antarctica.
24. Image:Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg
25. Image:Liquid_Crystal_Display_Macro_Example_zoom.jpg - LCD.
26. Image:Four_stroke_cycle_start.png - Otto cycle.
27. Image:2006-02-13_Drop-impact.jpg - Water drop impact.
28. Image:Thurston_Lava_Tube.jpg - Lava tube.
29. Image:Cellarius_ptolemaic_system.jpg
30. Image:Amaryllis_stamens_aka.jpg - Stamen.
31. Image:2004_Indonesia_Tsunami_Complete.gif - Animated map showing 2004 tsunmi's movement.
32. Image:Dscn3156-daisy-water_1200x900.jpg - Surface tension.
33. Image:Lorenz_attractor_yb.svg - Lorentz attractor.
34. Image:Icicles.jpg - Icicles.
35. Image:Petrified_wood_closeup_2.jpg - Petrified wood.
36. Image:Plasma-lamp_2.jpg - Plasma.
37. Image:TakakkawFalls2.jpg - Rainbow.
38. Image:Aurora_australis_panorama.jpg - Aurora.
39. Image:Gun-type_Nuclear_weapon.png - Little boy nuclear weapon.
40. Image:Apollo_17_The_Last_Moon_Shot_Edit1.jpg
41. Image:M104 ngc4594 sombrero galaxy hi-res.jpg - Sombrero galaxy
42. Image:Voyager_1_entering_heliosheath_region.jpg
43. Image:Aldrin_Apollo_11.jpg - Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
44. Image:FA-18_Hornet_breaking_sound_barrier_(7_July_1999).jpg - Sound barrier.
45. Image:Shuttle.jpg - Space shuttle.
46. Image:Crash.arp.600pix.jpg - Ejection seat.
47. Image:Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office.jpg - Galileo before the Holy Office.
48. Image:Pleiades_large.jpg - Pleiades.
49. Image:Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg - Mars.
50. Image:Sunspot_TRACE.jpg - Sunspot.
51. Image:Jupiter_from_Voyager_1.jpg - Jupiter's atmosphere.
52. Image:433eros.jpg - Eros (asteriod).
53. Image:Iosurface_gal.jpg - Io.
54. Image:Keplers_supernova.jpg - Kepler's supernova.
55. Image:Osirisplanet.jpg - Osiris.
56. Image:US_and_USSR_nuclear_stockpiles.png - Graph showing USSR's and US's nuclear stockpiles over time.
57. Image:Aerogelbrick.jpg - Aerogel.
58. Image:Vitrification1.jpg - Vitrification.
59. Image:Hypervelocity_Impact_Demonstration.jpg - Photo from inside [RHIC]]'s particle accelerator.
60. Image:Sun_halo_optical_phenomenon.jpg - Halo.
61. Image:IronInRocksMakeRiverRed.jpg - Iron colored water.
62. Image:Pahoeoe_fountain_original.jpg - Lava squirting
63. Image:Albert_Einstein.jpg - The big AE.
64. Image:Fluorescence_in_various_sized_CdSe_quantum_dots.png - Vials containing Quantum dots.
65. Image:First_Gold_Beam-Beam_Collision_Events_at_RHIC_at_100_100_GeV_c_per_beam_recorded_by_STAR.jpg - First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at RHIC at 100 - 100 GeV/c per beam recorded by the STAR detector.
66. Image:Meissner_effect.jpg - Superconductor.
67. Image:Airplane_vortex_edit.jpg - Wingtip vortex.
68. Image:Shuttle_external_fuel_tank_jettisoned.jpg - Shuttle's released external fuel tank.
69. Image:Wwer-1000-scheme.png - Soviet nuclear reactor design.
70. Image:Nuclear_powerplant-01.jpg - Nuclear power plant.
71. Image:Nuclear_fuel_pellets.jpeg - Nuclear fuel.
72. Image:GC_with_open_door.jpg - Gas chromotographer.
73. Image:Yearly_fuel_of_a_nuclear_power_plant.png - Yearly consumption of a nuclear power plant compared to a man's height.
74. Image:CERN-20060225-24.jpg - Cloud chamber.
75. Image:LEP_RF.jpg - A LEP radiofrequency cavity now on display at the Microcosm exhibit at CERN.
76. Image:CERN_members.png - Countries funding CERN.
77. Image:CERN_shiva.jpg - Shiva, the destroyer. At CERN.
78. Image:UF6.jpg - Uranium hexafluoride.
79. Image:ISS_Aug2005.jpg - International Space Station.
80. Image:Gluehlampe_01_KMJ.jpg - A lightbulb... a German one in fact!
81. Image:Yellowcake.jpg - Yellowcake.
82. Image:Latent-Heat-Of-Vaporization-Experiment.png
83. Image:Elektrisch_dode_kamer_(kooi_van_Faraday).JPG - Faraday cage.
84. Image:Agar_plate_with_colonies.jpg - Agar petri dish.
85. Image:Uranium2.jpg - Uranium.
86. Image:Geoids_sm.jpg - Gravity anomaly map from the NASA GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Change).
87. Image:YoungsDoubleSlit.png - Young's double slit experiment.
88. Image:Bubble_brokenchopstick.jpg - Bubble.
89. Image:CRT_color.png - Cathode ray tube.
90. Image:BigBangNoise.jpg - Cosmic background radiation.
91. Image:Gravitational_lens-full.jpg - Gravitational lens.
92. Image:Lichtbogen_3000_Volt.jpg - Electric arc.
93. Image:SGR_1806-20_108536main_NeutronStar-Print1.jpg
94. Image:Refracting_telescope_scan.png
95. Image:Supergiant_Star_V838_Moncerotis.jpg
96. Image:SurfaceTemperature.jpg - Earth's surface temperature map.
97. Image:Wavy.gif - Gravity waves.
98. Image:Kartiosumu_NGC_2264.jpg - Cone nebula.
99. Image:Plum pudding atom.svg - Plum pudding model.
100. Image:NewtonsPrincipia.jpg- Isaac Newton's own first edition copy of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica with his handwritten corrections for the second edition.
101. Image:Sunlayers.gif - Layers of the sun.
102. Image:Europa_g1_true.jpg - Europa close-up
103. Image:Messier-42-10.12.2004-filtered.jpeg - Orion nebula
104. Image:Mars_Valles_Marineris.jpeg - Mars's Valles Marineris.
105. Image:Saturn_V_launches.jpg - Saturn V rocket launches.
106. Image:Atlantis_taking_off_on_STS-27.jpg - Space shuttle Atlantis in flight.
107. Image:Sirius_A_and_B_artwork.jpg - Sirius A and B.
108. Image:Sun_SOHO_image.jpg - Sun
109. Image:Nature_cover,_November_4,_1869.jpg - Front cover of the first Nature issue.
110. Image:X-33_larc_big.jpg - X-33 VentureStar.
111. Image:M57_3.6_5.8_8.0_microns_spitzer.png - Ring nebula.
112. Image:Goddard_and_Rocket.jpg - First Flight of a Liquid Propellant Rocket
113. Image:Wolf-rayet.jpg - Artist's impression of a Wolf-Rayet star.
114. Image:Eagle_nebula_pillars.jpg - Eagle nebula.
115. Image:Horsehead-Hubble.jpg - Horsehead nebula.
116. Image:Crab_3.6_5.8_8.0_microns_spitzer.png - Crab nebula.
117. Image:Richard_feynman.jpg - Richard Feynman.
118. Image:Challenger_explosion.jpg - Space Shuttle Challenger explosion.
119. Image:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg - Sir Issac Newton.
120. Image:Newtonmas_Tree.jpg - Newtonmas tree
121. Image:Solvay_conference_1927.jpg - 1927 Solvay Congress.
122. Image:Ngc2392.jpg - Eskimo nebula.
123. Image:Ernest_Rutherford.jpg - Ernest Rutherford.
124. Image:Sonoluminescence.jpg - Sonoluminescence.
125. Image:SN1994D.jpg - Galaxy.
126. Image:Planetary_nebula_NGC7009.jpg - Planetary nebula.
127. Image:SnowflakesWilsonBentley.jpg - Snowflakes.