Earth's magnetosphere. Computer artwork showing the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's magnetic field (not to scale). The solar wind is made up of charged particles emitted by the Sun (right). The Earth's magnetic field deflects these particl...

Rings of Uranus. Artwork of particles making up one of the rings of Uranus. The rings of Uranus are very dark and not visible from Earth. There are eleven small rings in total, and they are only a few kilometres wide, and no more that a couple of hun...

In this artwork we find ourselves floating within the glorious ring system of the gas giant, Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirely of water ice - which is why they are so bright - and range in size from about a centimetre to a few metre...

A view across Saturn's ring plane, looking towards the so-called ring mountains. The ring mountains are strange vertical structures found on the edge of Saturn's B ring. They are not solid, but are rather a constantly changing accumulation of ring pa...

... ructures found on the edge of Saturn's B ring. They are not solid, but are rather a constantly changing accumulation of ring particles thrown out of the normal ring plane by the gravity of moonlets orbiting within the rings. Some of them are as much ...

Scale of the Universe. Illustration depicting the scale of the Universe. From upper left are the smallest objects: the fundamental particles, atoms, molecules such as DNA, and bacteria. The scale expands further: from a human to the Earth itself to t...

... before falling into the hole. In some cases, magnetic fields thread the disc, and lead to the formation of beams of charged particles, which are expelled at great velocities, approaching light speed, along the rotation axis. ...