Friday, 04. April 2008
The Space and Astronomical Art of Mark A. Garlick

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The colours that astronomers give stars are only slight tints. Close up, a red supergiant, many times more luminous than the Sun, would overwhelm our eyes so much that they would register only white.

What you have here is a globular cluster being eclipsed by the moon of a giant and hypothetical gas planet. This image appeared on the front cover of the September 1999 issue of the prestigious US magazine Asimov’s Science Fiction.



Here you see a pair of protoplanetary discs (“propyds” for short) forming inside the vast star factory known as the Orion Nebula. The Hubble Space Telescope actually photographed these objects, which will one day become stars and, perhaps, planetary systems.

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This site showcases over 130 of my artworks, mostly with a spacey or astronomical flavour. There are nine galleries of space art, arranged in separate categores. There is one gallery which contains what I call space surrealism.

The Space and Astronomical Art of Mark A. Garlick.

Note:
These images are © Mark A. Garlick / space-art.co.uk, used with permission.
Please do not use these images without first contacting the artist.
Category: Art & Visions | Astrology & Astronomy |


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