#deep space
Stormy seas in Sagittarius by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Via Flickr:
Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the centre of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name. The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust.
Fictional space vehicle
Sword of the Orion spacecraft visiting a small scientific and refueling outpost on Ophelia, one of the tiny moons of Uranus. With negligible surface gravity and abundance of water ice, this moon is a perfect place to produce valuable fuel for visiting spaceships, as well as conduct scientific observations of Uranus and search for Kuiper Beltobjects.
As always, prints of this and other artworks are available in my society6.com and deviantART.com shops.
Post link
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch
Ok, so SpaceXandElon Musk launched Tesla Roadster into space. What a time to be alive, but imagine what can happen years into the future. Here’s my little tribute to that successful Falcon Heavy demo flight :)
“Sir, our scans indicate it’s a… ehmm, a car?”
As always, prints of this and other artworks are available in my society6.com and deviantART.com shops.
Post link
Science project
Last year, in cooperation with ASU Center for Science and the Imagination, and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, I had a great chance to create 8 illustrations for the project called “Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities” - a research-based collection featuring narratives by top science fiction authors and essays by experts on future possibilities for exploring Mars, Asteroids, Low Earth Orbit, and Exoplanets.
And it’s finally out :)
You can download it for free in various e-book formats here (or even get a print-on-demand copy)
Post link
The Fermi Paradox
Once upon a time, scientists decided, “what would happen if we point Hubble at this dark piece of the sky and leave the exposure open for an absurd amount of time?” Said scientists then experienced sudden bowel incontinence from the results. Vast specks of light, like the first image and when zoomed in, each individual speck of light is it’s own galaxy with it’s own solar systems.
Seeing the sheer vastness of the universe and that it’s so large, it’s incomprehensible to our feeble minds, is it possible that we’re alone? Where are all the aliens?
The Fermi Paradox tries to describe why we seem to be alone in a vast sea of endless possibilities for intelligent life to form. Life seems to form easily, surely it’s the same elsewhere.
Here’s some main bullet point arguments as to why we’re seemingly alone.
• We’re too far apart, separated by vast space and time
• We’re rare or we’re the first
• The aliens don’t have advanced technology (we don’t either). Think of it this way, an octopus or a crow is intelligent life. They’ve never even visited the moon.
• Mass extinctions happen more often than not, they might be dead or intelligent life never exists long enough to make contact with each other before it’s wiped out
• We haven’t existed long enough to be discovered or to figure out how to find others
• They’re too advanced for us
• It’s simple nature of intelligent life to eventually wipe itself out
• Intelligent life has discovered that it’s too dangers to be in contact
• We’re not listening properly for their messages. It’s like trying to listen to a CD on a record player - it won’t work.
• We’re not contacted because we’re in a simulation or an alien zoo
• Maybe they’re already here, observing
• Maybe they’re here (e.g. UFOs?) we just don’t know how to talk to them or acknoweldge them. We laugh at most UFO reports.
Post link
Skull Nebula ( NGC 246)
Deep Space Industries: New Asteroid-Mining Company
From Deep Space Industries: The Earth is but a tiny and precious world floating in a sea of natural resources. The riches of the solar system offer humanity both unprecedented prosperity and an improved environment.
The resource potential of space outstrips that of any previous frontier - without the environmental impacts. Asteroids are plentiful throughout the solar system. Many orbit close to the Earth and many of these carry vast deposits of resources ranging from water to metals such as iron, gold and platinum – everything we need to expand our civilization into space, to provide for our needs here at home and to increase the wealth of our planetary economy. In addition, the sun shines 24/7 in space, and the electricity beamed to Earth from solar power satellites is carbon-free and leaves no radioactive waste.
With the effects of gravity at a minimum, we can do amazing things when it comes to moving, construction, and innovations in chemistry and physics. In fact, we are limited only by our own imaginations. All of this in a place safely outside of our delicate biosphere.
OUR VISION: Deep Space Industries believes the human race is ready to begin harvesting the resources of space both for their use in space and to increase the wealth and prosperity of the people of planet Earth.
With all these ideas and plans being thrown around, this is the best one I have wrote about. I love this plan. Something straight out of a science fiction movie.
Deep Space Industries, Inc., the new firm announced on Jan. 22 that it plans to launch a fleet of prospecting spacecraft in 2015, then begin harvesting metals and water from near-Earth asteroids within a decade. This work could make it possible to build and refuel spacecraft in Earth orbit, thus helping our species get a foothold in the final frontier.
“Using resources harvested in space is the only way to afford permanent space development,” Deep Space CEO David Gump said in a statement. Deep Space Industries will hold a press conference today in Santa Monica, Calif., at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST/1800 GMT) to unveil more details of its bold mission plan; you can watch the webcast live here
“More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year,” Gump explained. “They can be like the Iron Range of Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century — a key resource located near where it was needed. In this case, metals and fuel from asteroids can expand the in-space industries of this century. That is our strategy.”
The Spacecraft Fleet:
Firefly - A small, low cost, nimble craft that DSI will launch on one way reconnaissance missions to determine the target asteroids composition and spin-rate, rapidly spinning asteroids are harder to capture. Firefly spacecraft will utilize ultra low-cost cubesat and nanosat components, and will be sent into space as secondary “ride along” payloads on large launch vehicles carrying commercial communications and remote sensing satellites
“We can make amazing machines smaller, cheaper and faster than ever before,” Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson said in a statement. “Imagine a production line of Fireflies, cocked and loaded and ready to fly out to examine any object that gets near the Earth.”
Dragonfly - The next step is to scale up the Firefly spacecraft to include asteroid capture tools, and additional fuel to enable them to return asteroid samples to Earth orbit. Dragonfly missions will bring back the first payloads of asteroid materials for study, early processing experiments and sale. Customers will include both scientific researchers and private collectors. For example, NASA is paying $1 billion for the OSIRIS-REx mission that may bring back 2 kg in 2021. Collectors pay as much as $1 million per kg for rare meteorites. DSI will feed part of the returned material into prototypes of its Microgravity Foundry (see below) to demonstrate its practicality for in-space manufacturing using asteroid resources. Other Devices and Products:Microgravity Foundry - DSI is developing a patent-pending breakthrough in 3D printers able to output complex metal components using a simple process with few moving parts. The Microgravity Foundry (MGF) will enable utilization of the asteroid material to produce parts, gears, and other components for in-space machine repair and construction of new space infrastructures like solar power satellites. Propellent Refinery - The water and hydrocarbons found in carbonaceous asteroids will be distilled into propellant for use by space stations, commercial habitats, and communications satellites. Crewed space agency missions to the Moon, Mars, and martian moons, require large quanities of fuel. 90 percent of the mass launched from Earth will need to be fuel. Filling up in Earth orbit will greatly reduce the cost of Mars trips. Art is done by Bryan Versteeg - Content mostly from Deep Space Industries website.
This is awesome. I forgot about this. Everyone should check this out.
Post link
New piece!
Comic Book Panel: “Be like the Universe and expand yourself.”
Available as a print or on various products here: https://bit.ly/30QMHbK
Post link
Part 2 of drawing behind the scenes outfits while still in character
He do be vibing tho - looks very polite yes sir
Post link
