Mark A. Garlick's Space-Art.Co.Uk

Planet Nine

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 orbi...

Keywords: solar system, planet, nine, gas giant, planet...

Birth of the Solar System

What you see here is an impression of our Solar System forming, from the initial supernova that started the contraction of a gas cloud. As the cloud collapses and spins, it gets flatter. Soon, pieces of material in the disc begin to lump together (ac...

Keywords: solar nebula, formation, accretion, planetoid, planetesimal, Sun...

Outer Solar System

Here is a view of the Solar System, focusing on the giant outer planets Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. Saturn is in the foreground. Had the various elements in this image been to scale, which they are not, the orbits of the innermost planets wo...

Keywords: Sun, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, gas giant, t...

Solar System Animation

Animation of the eight major planets in the Solar System, along with a comet and the asteroid belt. The planets are not to scale, and neither are their relative distances. Please like or subscribe to my YouTube channel....

Keywords: Sun, planet, animation, comet, asteroid, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, S...

Solar System Formation

Here, I show the early Solar System – well, not necessarily our solar system. Gas and dust has lumped together to form asteroid-sized planetesimals, and these will then come together to form the larger bodies astronomers call planetoids. Soon, the ...

Keywords: formation, accretion, planetesimal, solar nebula...

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...

Charon

Charon is the largest of the known satellites of Pluto, the Solar System's recently demoted planet. In this image, we see Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. I imagined the surface to look somewhat like that of Neptune's largest sate...

Keywords: Charon, Pluto, Kuiper Belt, dwarf planet, landscape...

Early Earth

... after it had formed as viewed from the surface of the newly reconstructed Earth. Fire still rains from the sky – the early Solar System was a much more violent place than it is now. ...

Keywords: Earth, primordial, volcanism, formation, Moon...

Extragalactic Web

... places are not, well, empty. Extragalactic space is much more tenuous than interstellar space or the space that pervades the Solar System, but it is still not quite a void. Gas surrounds the galaxies and exists between them in a great web-like struct ...

Keywords: galaxy, cluster, supercluster, void, extragalactic...

Flight Over Titan's Lakes

This computer animation gives us a glimpse of one of the Solar System's largest natural satellites - Titan, the biggest moon of Saturn. Titan, which is 50% bigger than our own Moon, was the subject of the Huygens probe in 2005, glimpsed at the end o...

Keywords: Titan, Saturn, landscape, planet, animation, spacecraft, surface...