an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

what if the destination planet has an epic catastrophe during the years of intersteller travel?

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation,

Teegarden's Star b (also known as Teegarden b) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of Teegarden's Star, an M-type red dwarf 12.5 light years away from the earth.

While scenarios have been posited in this series where a spacecraft fails on the way to an habitable exoplanet...

What if we travelled to the nearest exoplanet only to find that it is in a state similar to how the earth was millions or billions of years ago?

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

Proxima Centauri b is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun, about 4.2 light-years away. The planet is thought to be rocky and may contain water.

This is a bit of a stylistic branch from previous panpsychism paintings as well as from my newer exoplanet series. I’m not sure why I went down this direction but it started feeling cohesive after a lot of trial and error.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

Ross 128 b is an Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet that orbits within the habitable zone of star Ross 128. It’s the second closest exoplanet to the Earth only after Proxima Centauri b and it’s located 11 light years in the constellation of Virgo.

Typo: this exoplanet weighs about 2 earth masses.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

Humans exploring this exoplanet may be subject to extreme forces and atmospheric conditions like ionizing radiation. I wanted to try to imagine what it's like to be there.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets.

Gliese 3323 b is 17.5 light years from the Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. It weighs about 1 earth masses, thought to be a borderline habitable rocky planet, while a year there is 5.4 days long and it’s very close to its small sun.

So lovely

Such an interesting look, I'm surprised that is a photograph.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

Art in this series does not mimic photographic-style representations you may see in articles on exoplanets. Rather I aim for the unphotographable: an impression, a dream-like sensation, an abstract mental panorama of conditions or geography on the exoplanet.

We hear of many anomalies in spacecraft launches, and sometimes during missions like Apollo 13. But unforeseen problems can crop up during descents and landings as well, especially if the journey takes decades and the spacecraft ages a lot.

Kepler-1473 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an F-type star 2,039 light years away, discovered in 2016. Its mass is 1.81 Earths, and takes 14.4 days to complete one orbit of its star.