Justinas Vitkus

Ice towers of Callisto.
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I know right?! Once I saw that illustration I was really confused. I started doubting myself "maybe I am missing something?"

I've heard about planet WASP-76b showing hints of optical phenomenon called Glory. It looks like iridescent rings caused by liquid droplets in clouds. In this case the liquid droplets are made out of molten metal in the clouds of this hot Jupiter planet.
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I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now.
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
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Well, I'm projecting my life onto her...

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Thank you! I could have never imagined that I would be anyone's favorite space artist. I truly appreciate this.

Another old painting of a habitable moon entering the shadow of its parent planet.
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Just a quick painting of Máni. A trans-Neptunian object.
Recent occultation observations hint that Máni might have a massive impact crater and a very tall mountain that I interpreted as a central peak in this impact crater. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem

Two Jovian moons Io and Europa eclipses the sun darkening Jupiter's sky. Volcanic plumes and sulfur halo can be seen around Io and water ice jets are erupting from Europa's crust. Also Jupiter's rings, solar corona and zodiacal light also glows in this darkened sky #SciArt #spaceart #Jupiter

This is one of my early attempts at space art.
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In that case, you directly helped me to make this painting. Thank you!

I've read about ZTF SLRN-2020 event where a star basically ate it's own planet. So I decided to try and depict this from a planet's perspective. It's atmosphere evaporating and getting ripped away by the star. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy

Thank you!

Each year near the start of Mars' southern winter warm air rises over Arsia Mons volcano forming ice and dust clouds. Sometimes this dust coalesces into a spiraling cloud that can be over 15 km high. This digital painting depicts one such dust spirals.#Sciart #space #astronomy #SolarSystem #Mars

Yes indeed :)

I'm glad you like them!

Sedna, frozen and lonely world drowned in darkness. It's red, ancient surface receives only a tiny amount of Sun's light.
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Thank you so much!

This is a digital painting I did in Photoshop. Thank you!

That's amazing! To me, brown dwarfs are one the most interesting objects out there. Thank you!

My old painting of a brown dwarf.
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
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Saturn as seen from Titan's polar regions. During winter season in south hemisphere a big, high altitude cloud hangs above south pole.
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J1407b also known as a Super-Saturn. Possibly a brown dwarf with a massive ring system with planets forming in it. Now, latest updates on this object suggest that it is not tied to any star and most likely is not illuminated like this. But who knows, maybe somewhere there is a system like this.

I based this on one of these Hot Jupiter atmosphere simulations. I'm not sure if it was of a Puffball Planet as there was no mention of it. Thank you!

My interpretation of Vesta's south pole impact that formed Rheasilvia crater. Before impact older Veneneia crater can be seen.
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My interpretation of a Hot Jupiter planet. I looked up some info on Hot Jupiter atmospheric dynamics and this is my best guess what this type of a planet might look like.
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Yes! There is still some wiggle space in planetary environments for us to explore. I am working on another picture featuring a massive gas giant and it's habitable moon. I'm not sure when I will be able to finish it though.

I too believe that ocean/atmospheric currents would be able to transfer some of the day side warmth into a night side creating somewhat even temperatures. Maybe this planet could be at the outer edge of it's star's habitable zone only having enough warmth to melt ice in the center of it's dayside.

It's a hypothesized type of a planet that due to it being tidally locked the effects of that might result in a planet with an ice free portion of a planet facing it's star while glacial sheet of ice creeps from the night side creating this Eyeball in space effect.

Also some red dwarf stars flare up in their poles instead of equator thus sparing the planets from the worst of the flare effects. As of now we just don't know. In the end I just wanted to paint an eyeball planet. I just think they are very cool. I do not know if any of them exist, I hope they do.