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This print is available through my deviantart.com print account http://www.deviantart.com/print/1773737/
Archive for September, 2007
I’ve just completed work on a 2008 Marsdrive calendar. To view the individual months, please check them out directly on my flickr account. I’ll post ordering details when available.
Here’s a view through my cherry tree and into the nebula IC 4603. This stunning backdrop was featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070604.html
From APOD:
Why does this starfield background resemble an impressionistic painting? The effect is created not by digital trickery but by large amounts of interstellar dust. Dust, minute globs rich in carbon and similar in size to cigarette smoke, frequently starts in the outer atmospheres of large, cool, young stars. The dust is dispersed as the star dies and grows as things stick to it in the interstellar medium. Dense dust clouds are opaque to visible light and can completely hide background stars. For less dense clouds, the capacity of dust to preferentially reflect blue starlight becomes important, effectively blooming the stars blue light out and marking the surrounding dust. Nebular gas emissions, typically brightest in red light, can combine to form areas seemingly created on an artist’s canvas. Photographed above is roughly four square degrees of the nebula IC 4603 near the bright star Antares toward the constellation of Ophiuchus.
