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here you will find the most recent artwork and animations that I have added to this site, from various categories. Not necessarily new, just recently uploaded. Please drop by often as I try to update this section regularly. However, I am much more prolific than this section might imply. I only put a selection of my latest work on show, although I generally produce several artworks in a given month, sometimes dozens.

Total 18 works in this gallery.

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Comet Nucleus (2020)
comet, coma, nucleus
Comet Nucleus (2020)
Ever imagined what a comet was like under all that gas and dust? Perhaps it would look something like this. I based this image on photographs of the nuclei of comets taken by space probes, such as Rosetta. ...Read more.
Lunar Mining (2020)
Moon, Earth, lunar, mining, habitation, base, surface, colony
Lunar Mining (2020)
This artwork depicts a mining operation on the Moon. I created it in Blender. This is a still from an animation. ...Read more.
Stanford Torus – Version 1 (2020)
Earth, Moon, Stanford Torus, hardware, space station, space habitat
Stanford Torus – Version 1 (2020)
Artwork of a Stanford Torus. This is a design for a space station proposed by NASA in 1975 at Stanford University. It consists of a torus with a radius of 1800km and a cross-sectional radius of 130m for the habitable section. The ring is connected to a central hub via a series of six spokes, which a ...Read more.
Intermediate Polar (2019)
cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary star, magnetic
Intermediate Polar (2019)
This picture shows a magnetic cataclysmic variable called an intermediate polar. The white dwarf and its magnetic field are spinning around very quickly where the centre of the accretion disc would be, removing its central regions. In its place is a 'curtain' of gas, accreting from the inner edge of ...Read more.
Jupiter’s Cloud Tops (2019)
Jupiter, Galilean, clouds, cloudscape, sky, atmosphere
Jupiter’s Cloud Tops (2019)
Artwork of the cloud tops of Jupiter, the Solar System's largest planet. The view is towards the Sun, with the four large Galilean moons to either side of it. From left to right they are Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto. ...Read more.
M87 Black Hole (2019)
M87, EVT, Event Horizon Telescope, black hole, accretion, jet, general relativity, einstein ring, gravity, gravitational lens, exoplanet, landscape, disc, disk, surface
M87 Black Hole (2019)
Artwork of the M87 black hole seen from a nearby planet. M87's central black hole was famously imaged in 2019 by a team of astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope. It is the first ever image of a black hole's accretion disc that has been directly captured. This image shows the accretion engine ...Read more.
Magnetic Accretion (2019)
cataclysmic, accretion, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary, magnetic, binary star, polar
Magnetic Accretion (2019)
This is an impression of a polar or an AM Herculis binary. It is a type of cataclysmic variable related to the system seen in Intermediate Polar. A red dwarf (bottom) loses material to a compact white dwarf (top right) with a very strong magnetic field. The field is so strong that the material, on i ...Read more.
New Horizons at Arrokoth (2019)
Kuiper belt, binary, Arrokoth, New Horizons, Sun, spacecraft
New Horizons at Arrokoth (2019)
Artwork of the binary Kuiper-belt object Arrokoth (formerly MU69 or Ultima Thule). This astronomical body is the most distant object visited by human spacecraft, with the flyby of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft taking place on 1 January 2019. It is a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) and was found to be a c ...Read more.
Planet Nine (2019)
solar system, planet, nine, gas giant, planet
Planet Nine (2019)
Planet Nine is a hypothesized massive planet, first proposed in 2014, that is speculated to orbit far out in the Solar System. It has not been detected formally. Instead, astronomers have inferred its presence from perceived perturbations of the orbits of some Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). The pla ...Read more.
Cataclysm VIIa (2018)
cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary star
Cataclysm VIIa (2018)
An impression of a cataclysmic binary / variable, showing the accretion disc nearly edge on. ...Read more.
Early Earth (2018)
Earth, primordial, volcanism, formation, Moon
Early Earth (2018)
We're going back several billion years here. The planet Earth had already started to form, when it was hit by a gigantic protoplanet roughly three times the mass of present-day Mars. As a result, debris was blown into Earth orbit. Some of the debris started to rain back down on the planet, but much ...Read more.
The Big Splash (2018)
Moon, Earth, Theia, formation, birth, animation, impact, collision
The Big Splash (2018)
This short film charts the story of the Earth's single natural satellite - the Moon. The most widely accepted theory is that, shortly after it formed, the proto-Earth was struck at an oblique angle by another protoplanet, roughly the size of Mars. Astronomers call this interloper Theia. Debris from ...Read more.
Magnetar (2017)
neutron star, star, magnetar, magnetic, pulsar, nebula
Magnetar (2017)
So you thought your fridge magnet was pretty neat. You obviously haven't met the most powerful magnet known to man. Their density and rapid rotation (several times per second) enormously increases the power of their magnetism. If you placed a magnetar where the Moon is, 400,000 kilometres away, it c ...Read more.
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft (2016)
TESS, spacecraft, hardware, Earth, exoplanet
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft (2016)
This is an artwork of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS was launched by NASA in April 2018, the successor to Kepler. It has a two-year mission, during which it will be hunting for extrasolar planets transiting their stars. It is expected to find around 20,000 planets. At the tim ...Read more.
Space Travel Poster – Amalthea (2016)
Amalthea, space travel poster, landscape, planet, satellite, surface, Jupiter
Space Travel Poster – Amalthea (2016)
This illustration is one of a series that I have been working on, borrowing heavily from the art-deco-style travel posters from the middle of the twentieth century. This one regards the Jovian satellite Amalthea, which orbits extremely close to its planet. The view of Jupiter from there would be ...Read more.
Space Travel Poster – Mars (2016)
Mars, space travel poster, landscape, planet, satellite, surface
Space Travel Poster – Mars (2016)
This illustration is one of a series that I have been working on, borrowing heavily from the art-deco-style travel posters from the middle of the twentieth century. This one advises that you take a trip to the Red Planet. ...Read more.
Solar Corona (2014)
Sun, corona, eclipse, magnetic
Solar Corona (2014)
This picture shows an impression of the Sun's outermost atmosphere, the corona. The corona is very hot, millions of degrees compared to thousands of degrees for the solar surface. But it is very tenuous and can only be seen when the Sun's bright disc is hidden, as during a solar eclipse. Note the st ...Read more.
Ice Geyser on Triton (2011)
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape, geyser, satellite, ice giant, ring
Ice Geyser on Triton (2011)
When the Voyager 2 probe flew past Neptune (top) in August 1989, it also imaged its largest moon Triton. The pictures showed that although Triton's surface is the coldest in the known Solar System at -240 Celsius (-400 Fahrenheit), it is still volcanically active. However, the volcanoes are cryonic ...Read more.