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Pluto Flyover
An animation featuring a flight over the surface of Pluto. I have used colours based on HST imagery - yellows, dark browns/blacks, greys and whites. Snow may or may not exist on Pluto, and in any case may not look like in this depiction, but it's fun...
Keywords: Pluto, Charon, surface, landscape, animation, dwarf planet

Huygens on the Surface of Titan
This image imagines the Huygens probe on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The probe, which landed on the satellite in January 2005, is shown as it might appear now, having weathered Titan's icy, hydrocarbon-rich climate for several years....
Keywords: Huygens, probe, Cassini, Titan, satellite, Saturn, methane, rain, hydrocarbon

Animation of a Cataclysmic Binary
This video shows an interacting binary star system known as a cataclysmic variable (CV) or cataclysmic binary. The larger star is a red dwarf, a normal and very common star somewhat smaller, cooler and fainter than the Sun. It is in orbit around a mu...
Keywords: cataclysmic, accretion, accretion disc, red dwarf, white dwarf, star, binary sta...

Blue Giant Star
This classic space art example was commissioned for one of my recent books,
Keywords: blue giant, star, landscape, exoplanet

Blue Ice
Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, orbits at such a distance that, from its surface, Neptune appears roughly sixteen times the diameter of our Moon as seen from the Earth. Out here, the Sun is 900 times fainter than we know it, but still brighter t...
Keywords: planet, gas giant, Neptune, Triton, landscape, satellite, traditional art, ice g...

Blue Mars IV
Astronomers are uncovering more and more evidence that seems to indicate that the planet Mars, now dry and lifeless, was once able to support liquid water. This impression shows the red planet in the future, when humans have terraformed and colonised...
Keywords: planet, terrestrial planet, Mars, future, water, ocean, terraform, satellite

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
We're going back several billion years here. The planet Earth had already started to form, when it was hit by a gigantic protoplanet roughly three times the mass of present-day Mars. As a result, debris was blown into Earth orbit. Some of the debris ...
Keywords: Earth, primordial, volcanism, formation, Moon

Europan Night
What you have here is a view of the giant planet Jupiter from a vantage point somewhere above the surface of Europa, one of its icy moons. The Sun is right behind you but just below the moon's horizon, so the light in this rendition is coming from Ju...
Keywords: planet, gas giant, Jupiter, Europa, landscape

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

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