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

Extrasolar Eclipse

This illustration shows a hypothetical, Saturn-like gas giant planet (an exoplanet) viewed from a surface of one of its satellites. Another satellite is seen in the sky. The planet is eclipsing its parent star, which is lighting up its atmosphere lik...

Keywords: exoplanet, eclipse, satellite, landscape, star, ring, space art, surface...

NASA’s TESS Spacecraft

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 ...

Keywords: TESS, spacecraft, hardware, Earth, exoplanet...

Planet of Kepler-35

Kepler-35 is a binary star system, around which astronomers have found a so-called transiting circumbinary exoplanet, Kepler-35b. That is, a planet which orbits both stars as if they were one. This image imagines the view from the surface of a moon o...

Keywords: Kepler, planet, binary, star, exoplanet, surface, clouds...

Proxima's Planet

Proxima is the nearest star to the Sun. It is a dim red dwarf, smaller than our Sun and a great deal fainter. Here we see it from Proxima b, a recently discovered exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf. To the right you can also make out Alpha Centauri, wh...

Keywords: landscape, red dwarf, star, exoplanet, Proxima, surface...

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...

Barred Spiral NGC 1365

This illustration was commissioned for one of my recent books, Cosmic Menagerie: A Visual Journey Through the Universe. It is an impression of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral. It lies about 56 million light-ye...

Keywords: galaxy, barred spiral, planet, exoplanet...

Binary Sunset

In this image I imagine an Earth-like world in orbit around not a single star but a close binary. What beautiful sunsets could be witnessed from this world. In the sky I have added a giant satellite, its night side illuminated by cities, betraying in...

Keywords: exoplanet, terrestrial planet, planet, water, ocean, binary star, star, satellit...

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: ... neutron star, stellar wind, accretion, exoplanet, binary star, HMXB ...