Astronomy and Technology

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503-Pluto-Glacier A glacier of frozen nitrogen flows through a valley on frigid Pluto, with its large moon Charon on the horizon. Oil on masonite panel,18x24…

Zero Gee Factory

Greenhouses provide air and food for a small staff who oversee a factory in high earth orbit. Painting illustrated an article by Isaac Asimov in the "AARP"…

Galactic Core

The sky of a planet near the core of the Milky Way glows with the light of billions of stars. acrylic and gouache on illustration board; 17.25x12.5 inches,…

Formation of the Solar System

Forming Solar System; comets swarm the newborn sun as planetesimals collide over the young earth, which glows red hot amidst the ring of debris splashed out by…

Red Giant Sun

Red Giant Sun; 3 billion years from now, the sun will swell to perhaps 50 times its current size. In this view from the dessicated Earth, the more distant moon…

Lunar Vapors

Lunar Vapors; Tides pulled by the much closer newborn Moon send mountainous waves crashing against the first continents on the earth 4 billion years ago; acrylic, alkyds, and gouache on canvas, 20x30inches, 2013; © Don Dixon; framed, $4,500 SOLD

Magellan Space Probe over Venus; diagram illustrating how the radar-mapping probe peered through Venus' clouds to image the surface, painted for Orange County…

Apollo 11

Apollo 11 commemorates the first moon landing on July 20, 1969; acrylic and gouache on Lintex illustration board, 20.5x20.5 inches, 1993; © Don Dixon; $4,200…

Approaching Jupiter ; included in the first Spacescapes series, this early piece shows Jupiter and its moons through a spacecraft viewport, 1972; 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas panel; copyright Don Dixon; $2,975

Cassini Division Study; haloes shine above the clouds of Saturn in this study of the sun shining through the Cassini Division of Saturn's RIngs; 25 x19 inches,…

Orbiting Callisto: The Early Asimov, Book 2

a nuclear-powered spacecraft orbits Jupiter's moon Callisto in this cover painting for The Early Asimov, Book 2; acrylic and gouache on illustration board,…

Lifeburst

Lifeburst; cover painting for the novel by Jack Williamson, features a dense ring of satellites over the future earth; acrylic and gouache on illustration…

Moonring

Moonring; The newborn moon orbits in a ring of debris above the molten earth 4 billion years ago; acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 18.5x13.5 inches,…

Project Cyclops

Project Cyclops; a mesh antenna a mile across orbits far above the earth, which eclipses the sun in the distance. A radio shield hovers in the middle distance,…

Quasar

Quasar; a black hole at the core of a distant galaxy blazes with energy as it compresses stars caught in its gravitational maelstrom; acrylic and gouache on…

Viking One Lands on Mars

Viking 1, the first robotic probe to land successfully on the Red Planet, touches down on the dusty surface of Mars on July 20, 1976; Created for Hamilton…

Earth and Moon Study; a very early Don Dixon painting showing Earth and Moon floating in space; oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, 1968; copyright Don Dixon ;…

Exploring Ganymede ; an early Don Dixon painting showing astronauts exploring one of Jupiter's moons; 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas, 1972; copyright Don Dixon ; $4,975

Exploring the RIngs; astronauts float amidst the myriad orbiting icy satellites comprising Saturn's Rings; acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 7 x 11 inches, 1984; copyright Don Dixon; $1,670

Democritus Atomic Theory; symbolic panorama showing Greek ruins and the atoms within a leaf, painted to illustrate an article by Isaac Asimov in the AARP magazine, 1985; 25.5 x 8.25 inches, acrylic and gouache on illustration board; crease within inch of right border; copyright Don Dixon; $4,650

Halley Encounter ; one of Dixon's early Spacescapes offerings depicts Comet Halley near Earth, 1972; 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas panel; copyright Don Dixon; $4,975

In the Shadow of Icarus; an early painting by Don Dixon showing a crewed spacecraft sheltering in the shadow of the sun-diving asteroid Icarus as a tethered instrument examines the nearby Sun; 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas with watercolor paper applique´, 1972; copyright Don Dixon; $3,975

German Planetenteleskop; concept painting for an ESA project of the late 1980s, a space telescope orbits high above Earth; 13.75 x 9.5 inches (matted to 20 x 16…

Skylab Commemorative ; An astronaut make emergency repairs on America's first space station in this montage commissioned for the Hamilton Collection's…

Thousand League Boots, First Flight of the MMU ; astronaut Bruce McCandless flies high above earth in the first test of the Manned Maneuvering Unit in this…

Valles Kasei, Mars ; Martian landscape inspired by a gulley in Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, 1983; 20 x 15 inches, acrylic and gouache on illustration board;…