The purely digital graphic at right shows how gravity waves and the orbits of individual stars may be responsible for the spiral form of galaxies.

This is actually two illustrations, which I have superimposed digitally: a cutaway of the Space Shuttle, and a schematic diagram of the launch-to-landing trajectory of the Shuttle.

Space Tourism?
Check out The International Space Station

~ a new exhibition now touring the USA
and looking into the future.

Below, right: ''Can you produce a planisphere on the computer?'', asked the art editor. ''Of course'', I replied.

What I didn't tell him is that it was the very first artwork I had done on my new Mac and sent out on a SyQuest disk! On the right is a conventional, not digital, diagram of the Birth of the Moon using the 'glancing impact' hypothesis (from Focus). I must do an animated version of this one day...

1994 was a good year for space artists. Not only was it the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11, but we had the amazing phenomenon of the impact of a comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, on Jupiter.

One of my impressions was published in Sky & Telescope, another on The Planetary Report, another on Popular Astronomy, and others appeared in the Telegraph and other publications worldwide.

But the one I enjoyed most was the one shown right, which was used in dozens of editions of the ITN News -- but animated, with one of the cometary fragments 'whooshing' through the atmosphere and impacting in the clouds, forming the H-bomb-like fireball seen here.

A US record company has now used this image for an excellent CD album by the group Asteroids~ Burning Out in the Atmosphere ~ who are also using (July 1998) my image of T-rex and the K-T Event in their new CD Way of the Dinosaur. You can see this on their website.

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