The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled

As a space artist, I have had the thrill of participating in scientific discovery, often being the first artist to imagine what new objects might look like. Space artists usually work to the scientist’s directive, although sometimes they get it first. In the 1920s, Lucian Rudaux showed pinkish skies on Mars decades before Viking revealedContinue reading “The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled”
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