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Canadian astrophotographer Rick Ellis used photoshop filters and effects on images of a solar flare from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. From this he created a Coronal Mass Ejection: the Sun as work of art .

But even without special effects, astronomical photos can also be works of art. (Better than many works that I've seen in art galleries.)

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Imaging the Sun can produce some fascinating effects even without Photoshop effects. However using such effects has turned an extreme UV image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory into the "Zen Sun".

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Art is used extensively to illustrate heavenly bodies which we can't photograph clearly. For example, exoplanets are often shown by an artist's impression. Very few of the planets circling stars other than our own have been directly imaged. The images contain data of interest to astronomers, but don't look like much.

Here is an artist's depiction of a planet at least four times the mass of Jupiter. The artist uses the data that's available and experience of other heavenly bodies to make the picture. We don't know how it would really look.

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Heaven's Carousel artwork by artist Tim Otto Roth, inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope. It's a rotating carousel, with 36 illuminated spherical loudspeakers mounted on long strings. It illustrates some of Hubble’s key findings and the physical processes that underpin its work. It looks fascinating, and I'd have liked to see it.


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Here is a famous painting by 19th century American artist Frederic Church, The Meteor of 1860. It shows a meteor fragment as it flew through the Earth's atmosphere - this is called a meteor procession. Walt Whitman also wrote a poem referring to it, Year of Meteors (1859-60) .





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You probably almost recognize this night sky painting, but see that it isn't quite right. It's a depiction of a Christmas Day gamma-ray burst, modelled on Van Gogh's famous “Starry Night”.

On Christmas Day 2010, NASA's Swift observatory detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB). We can't see gamma rays, so need special detectors. They are most powerful radiation that we know of and when they are given off, we know that a really massive explosion has happened somewhere.

Astronomers are still not too sure what caused this GRB. There were two main theories at the time – and since then a third has been proposed. I'll settle for being glad that whatever happened it was a long way, as a nearby GRB would definitely be Very Bad News for us.

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An abstract painting or Impressionist seascape? Nope. This image was generated from ESA's Planck satellite. It was looking at the Galactic magnetic field. We often see that, apart from the scientific value of data, there can also be beauty.


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Izabela Oldak, a talented Polish artist, was the AstroArtist of the Month of the AWB (Astronomers without Borders) in February. Among other things she has a superb series of paintings of aurorae. They are not only visually stunning, but I think really capture the beauty and spirit of an auroral display. Here is a picture of her painting entitled "True Mystery".

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Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. It also tends to be low in the sky. This means that its light comes to us through more of our atmosphere than the ones overhead, making Sirius a very twinkly star. Since its the light is refracted by our atmosphere, you can see it changing color. (Sirius often gets reported as a UFO!)

Amateur astronomer Bob King decided to play with different exposures and effects. For Sirius he tapped the telescope tube as he made the exposure. That turned the picture into a tangled swirly thread of changing color.

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There are no special effects in this image. But it reminded me so much of an abstract painting I've put it in the art thread. It's actually a photo that NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took from the ISS while it was passing over Australia.

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