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Danielle Furselaar is a Dutch artist whose work includes space art. She has done pictures from her own imagination, but also those based on scientific understanding. Here she's produced a wonderful poster for ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. It incorporates radio telescopes and some of the deep sky objects they study.


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I love that. Breathtaking.

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HiRISE is a camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It works in visible wavelengths, but at very high resolution.

Here is a picture of an interesting art work with an astronomical theme that combines a HiRISE image with a sculpture based on a mathematical shape. I wish I could see the real thing - I wonder what material the artist used.


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That's very interesting artwork. I've never tried sculpting anything before. That might be fun.

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Here's a delightful and unusual use of astronomical bodies in a picture. Heidi Colorless calls it Hungry? i wish i could give u the universe for breakfast.


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Fun Is Wherever You Can Find It is an original painting by Apollo astronaut Alan Bean. It was painted in textured acrylic with moondust on aircraft plywood.


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Vincent Van Gogh was an amateur astronomer, and when his paintings include a night sky, they are accurate. Here is his beautiful Starry night over the Rhône. He painted it in 1888 and it's now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Th painting shows the best known star grouping in the sky, the asterism called the Big Dipper – or the Plough in Britain. It's part of the constellation Ursa Major. In France it's called La Casserole (the saucepan).


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A dramatic scene from space artist Michael C. Turner.

The constellation Draco (the dragon) has many stars which are multiple. For example Nu Draconis is actually at least three stars - two white ones orbiting each other, that are somewhat bigger and hotter than the Sun, and one of them has a smaller companion. (The other one may also have a small companion, but that's not confirmed.)

From Turner's imagination and stellar knowledge comes Draconian Visions. If the small companion star had an exoplanet, this might be the view. Turner writes,
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Jets of volcanic plumes consisting of gas, steam, and pyroclastic debris erupt from ancient calderas as a result of massive subterranean vulcanism created, in part, by the complex gravitational influx fields within this multiple stellar system.


You can find out more about Draco the Dragon here.


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Van Gogh? No, and some of you have probably realized that this is another image from the Planck satellite. In the center of the image, glowing orange, is the Large Magellanic Cloud. It's something you can see in the southern hemisphere sky, and it's a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

The colors show distribution of dust, yellow being fairly dense dusty and blue showing very little dust. The dusty orange at the top of the picture are where the Chamelon is. That's a star-forming region about 300 light years from Earth.


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Here is a painting by Bettina Forget in honor of Johannes Kepler's Somnium. This is Kepler (Somnium Series), 2013, digital print, acrylic, ink on paper -

She writes in an Astronomers Without Borders blog:
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The first ever science fiction book is titled Somnium (The Dream) and was written 400 years ago by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. It describes a fantastic voyage to the Moon, its inhabitants, its landscape, and the solar system’s celestial motion. . . . The Somnium has never been illustrated, so I decided to develop a series of artworks inspired by this text, to increase awareness about this under-appreciated but significant book.


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