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399 White Dwarf Collision771 viewsA scene far more common within a globular cluster, where stars swarm like bees and collisions between them are more likely, this digital painting shows the final minutes of our sun's life as a white dwarf approaches it. As tidal forces stretch the sun into a pear-shape, the delicate balance between gravity and radiation pressure fails, and the sun ruptures. The energy released as the two stars merge would vaporize the earth. Painted for November, 2002 cover of Scientific American.
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472 Iapetus Study1139 viewsSaturn produces a "diamond ring" effect as it eclipses the sun in this perspective from the satellite Iapetus. acrylic, gouache, and oil glaze on illustration board, 48x35 cm, 1984.
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018 OrbitingIce1016 viewsSaturn's rings are composed of a myriad chunks of ice, each following its own orbit. Oil on masonite, 1973. artwork © 2007 Don Dixon/cosmographica.com
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361 ETAntenna803 viewsAlien Radiotelescope probes the sky for signs of Intelligent Life - Painting by Don Dixon
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417 CatEyeNebulaEvolution682 viewsThe strange and beautiful shapes of planetary nebulae, like the Cat's Eye, form through complex interactions between stellar winds and magnetic fields. Digital, 2004, for Scientific American.
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