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Blue Ice
... umination comes from the planet itself. Neptune then provides only about as much
light as 0.9 full Moons, dying the Tritonian
landscape a nice shade of ice-cold azure. ...
Keywords:
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape,
satellite, traditional art, ice g...
Extrasolar Eclipse
... tar, which is lighting up its atmosphere like a bright red ring, producing an
eerie light that stains the barren, rock-strewn
landscape. ...
Keywords:
exoplanet, eclipse, satellite, landscape, star,
ring, space art, surface...
Ice Geyser on Triton
... of frigid nitrogen gas. The Voyager images showed, as does my own rendition
here, how the geysers leave dirty streaks on the
landscape as the nitrogen and other materials is blown across by high altitude
winds. ...
Keywords:
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape,
geyser, satellite, ice giant, rin...
Ice Geysers on Triton
This is a computer animation of cryovolcanism of Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
These icy geysers were observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft - or rather, the
spacecraft photographed the long stains that these features left on the landscape. It i...
Keywords:
planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape,
geyser, satellite, ice giant...
Sojourner
... lava flood plain – chosen because it was flat and easier to achieve a nice
touch-down there. This image depicts the Martian
landscape as anything but flat – but that's what artistic license is for.
...
Keywords:
Mars, rover, Pathfinder, Sojourner, landscape,
traditional art...
Space Travel Poster - 55 Cancri F
... commission for Sky at Night magazine, I was asked to picture the planet seen from
the surface of an imaginary satellite whose
landscape was lush with vegetation. One of the specifics was that the
vegetation needed to resemble 'giant purple broccoli' ...
Keywords:
55 Cancri, space travel poster, plants, landscape,
planet, satellite, exoplanet,...
And the Sky Full of Stars
This image shows the view from a planet on the outskirts of a globular cluster such
as 47 Tucanae. These are vast assemblages of up to a million ageing stars. If our
Solar System could move to a more attractive lot of celestial real estate, such as
t...
Keywords:
landscape, cluster, globular cluster, star, exoplanet...
Aurora Planet
This is the view from a planet in a close orbit around a magnetic flare star. These
stars have such gigantic episodes of magnetic activity that they must have huge
starspots, some of which have actually been imaged. Life on a nearby planet would be
i...
Keywords:
flare, star, magnetic, starspot, landscape, aurora,
exoplanet, planet...
Blue Giant Star
This classic space art example was commissioned for one of my recent books, Cosmic
Menagerie: A Visual Journey Through the Universe. It imagines the view from the
surface of a rocky world orbiting a blue giant star. These, such as Rigel in Orion,
hav...
Keywords:
blue giant, star, landscape, exoplanet, surface...
Blues for a Dead World
Here you have an impression of a high-mass x-ray binary (HMXB), in which a blue giant
(right) orbits a compact object such as a neutron star or black hole. The blue giant
has a powerful stellar wind, shown radiating outwards here. Some of this materi...
Keywords:
x-ray binary, landscape, blue giant, star, black
hole, neutron star, stellar win...