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very informative stuff!

Beautiful illustration of Enceladus ocean!

very cool animation of a forming rogue planet!

An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars

Sol 1629: Right Navcam, imaged at 15:45:43.410 (local mean solar time)

beautiful render!

beautiful artist illustration

This well-composed telescopic field of view covers over a Full Moon on the sky toward the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Of course the brighter stars show diffraction spikes, the commonly seen effect of internal supports in reflecting telescopes, and lie well within our own Milky Way galaxy. The faint but pervasive clouds of interstellar dust ride above the galactic plane and dimly reflect the Milky Way's starlight. Known as galactic cirrus or integrated flux nebulae they are associated with the Milky Way's molecular clouds. In fact, the diffuse cloud cataloged as MBM 54, less than a thousand light-years distant, fills the scene. The galaxy seemingly tangled in the dusty cloud is the striking spiral galaxy NGC 7497. It's some 60 million light-years away, though. Seen almost edge-on near the center of the field, NGC 7497's own spiral arms and dust lanes echo the colors of stars and dust in our own Milky Way.

🔭 Galaxies, Stars, and Dust

Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder

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YouTube video by ExoRender Doppler imaging X procedural gas giant planet rendering

Threw my WISE1049B Doppler maps in Blender and it came out like a stormy gas giant world!
How I did it ➡️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0aG...
#astroart #spaceart

Thank you so much! Working on them just now!

An acrylic hair brush and airbrush painting from a failed calendar project. 'January' started the series sowing Earth from its formation to 2.2 billion years ago, half the history of Earth. Each successive month represented half the remaining history with some 'editorial shuffling'. I did the first 6 months, Adolf Schaller did the last more recent ones and we collaborated equally on the final month. Unfortunately his work for the project is probably lost except for the 'December' work which I have and still has my contributions unfinished. #SciArt

An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.

Artist conception of a giant planet forming in a stellar disk, clearing a gap.

The standard cartoon was pretty on point.

In this paper we presented simultaneous H and K band Doppler maps for the brown dwarf binary, revealing persistent patchy structures on WISE 1049B and new polar spots on WISE 1049A. The paper also includes comparisons with simulated Doppler maps from spot models, planetary-scale waves, and 3D GCM.

Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features... Brown dwarfs and planetary-mass companions display rotationally modulated photometric variability, especially those near the L/T transition. This variability is commonly attributed to...

Super excited that my first PhD paper "Global weather map reveals persistent top-of-atmosphere features on the nearest brown dwarfs" is accepted and now out on arXiv!
Check out the first multi-band weather maps of not just one, but two extrasolar worlds!
Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09606

Today I gave a talk at UKEXOM 2024 about Doppler imaging of WISE 1049AB! ✨

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