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Here is another work by Bettina Forget who is Astronomers Without Borders' AstroArtist of the Month. It's Treasure Hunt #2, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48" I love the colors in this painting.
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French astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux was the grandfather of modern space art. In the 1920s and 30s, he produced spacescapes of such accuracy that many hold up well even today. Here is a drawing of the surface of the Moon. Other artists showed towering, jagged peaks, but Rudaux depicted a rolling terrain and rounded mountains like the landscapes photographed by Apollo astronauts. Rudaux pointed out one fact that he thought was patently obvious: one could look through a telescope and see with one's own eyes the rounded profiles of the lunar mountains "standing out from the edge of the disk".
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Whoa Mona, that is a beautiful picture!! I love space art
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WOW!!!!! This is amazing. Now, you will think this is crazy, but I finished watching the Pixar movie "Home" this morning and there is a scene where the main character is looking out over outer space and notices how beautiful things are and truly begins to understand the meaning of Art to humans.
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Maybe the most astounding artistic astronomy image ever! Have a look at the observable Universe in a single image by artist Pablo Carlos Budassi. The Solar System is in the center. Cosmologists think there is no center to the Universe, but all observers are in the center of their observable universe. Around the outside is the plasma of the Big Bang. Budassi used logarithmic maps of the known Universe and NASA images to create this marvelous artwork.
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Vincent van Gogh's painting “Starry Night†shows bold whorls of light sweeping across the night sky. A Hubble Space Telescope image of 2004 shows similar whorls, but these are spirals of dust thousands of 20,000 light years away around a star named V838 Monocerotis. (It's in the constellation Monoceros the Unicorn.) The star is a red giant and following an explosive outburst, it illuminated the dust around it in what's called a light echo. The dust was probably ejected from the star in a previous explosion thousands of years ago. The dust was invisible until it was lit up by the more recent explosion. You can see a comparison between the swirls in the painting and those in the Hubble image, as well as find out more about V838 Mon.
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Mona, I love van Gogh's work. I have even tried to emulate it via digital format. But never have I attempted "Starry Night". This Hubble image is amazing. I mean, it captures his swirls and softness.
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Corina Chirila was inspired by Hubble images to create this painting.
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The story of Tim Peake, ESA's first British astronaut, inspired a book by Michelle Robinson and Nick East Goodnight Spacement. Here Nick East provides instructions for How to Draw an Astronaut.
Last edited by Mona - Astronomy; 05/11/16 09:14 PM.
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Shared with my daughter to read with her 6 year old son.
Last edited by Mona - Astronomy; 05/11/16 09:15 PM.
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