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Earth-like Moon
This is a purely imaginary gas giant planet (green) shown with an Earth-like moon
orbiting in close attendance. It is not yet known if habitable moons such as this can actually exist, though.
Keywords:
exoplanet, planet, satellite, Earth-like, gas giant, habitable, ring
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...
Cataclysmic Dawn
This is the same kind of binary star system (a cataclysmic variable) as depicted
Cataclysm III and VI this time seen from a cave on a purely hypothetical, watery and
rocky planet. Admittedly, though, such a situation is highly unlikely to exist in
re...
Keywords:
cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary sta...
Eclipse
This image shows a total eclipse, complete with diamond ring effect, but not
necessarily an eclipse on Earth. I have made the moon larger than it would appear in
Earth's sky, so this is an alien but Earth-like planet somewhere else in the galaxy
– ...
Keywords:
exoplanet, satellite, ocean, eclipse, landscape, habitable, Earth-like
Extrasolar Binary
This was a commission for Scientific American, in their September 2000 edition. It
was to illustrate an article about finding extrasolar planets via occultation – by
detecting the dip in light levels as the planets transit in front of their stars. ...
Keywords:
exoplanet, planet, Earth-like, binary star, habitable, star
Sister Earth II
This is an alternative impression of the extrasolar planet Gliese 581c, which
resembles the Earth but which is five times its mass. I show the planet as seen from
one of two hypothetical satellites.
Keywords:
exoplanet, planet, super earth, Gliese 581, satellite, terrestrial planet, lands...
Sister Earth III
Another impression of the extrasolar planet Gliese 581c, which resembles the Earth
but which is five times its mass. I show the planet with two hypothetical satellites
and a system of rings.
Keywords:
exoplanet, planet, super earth, Gliese 581, satellite, ring, habitable, terrestr...
Super Earth
This is Gliese 581 c, one of three planets orbiting the star Gliese 581. Gliese
581 c has garnered much attention because it is very small compared to virtually all
other known exoplanets to date, at only 1.5 times the radius of the Earth and five
...
Keywords:
exoplanet, planet, super earth, Gliese 581, satellite, habitable, landscape, ter...
Proxima Centauri b – Flyover
Proxima Centauri has been in the media a lot lately. This tiny red dwarf - only 1/7
the diameter of the Sun - is the closest star outside the Solar System, at 4.25
light-years.
What's so special about it? Well, it's got a planet ...
Keywords:
landscape, red dwarf, Alpha Centauri, Proxima, star, exoplanet, planet, animatio...