Dirk's Space Art Page

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Fall Colors in a Binary - A colorful view in a binary star system.

Capella - An imaginary view of the quadruple system Capella.

The Calm Before the Storm - The calm before the storm in a triple star system.

Albireo - A view from an imaginary planet around the triple system Albireo.

At the End of the Day - A sunset on a dry but not lifeless planet in a binary.

Syzygy - An interesting alignment in a binary star system.

Sunrise of a W UMa System - Sunrise in a W UMa system. I did this painting after doing some research work on habitable planets in these binaries.

TU Muscae - A view of the massive overcontact binary TU Muscae.

Cataclysmic Serenity - A binary star sunset from a tropical planet.

Flatirons Fantasy IV - A supernova explodes over the Flatirons.

Flatirons Fantasy II - The first "production" piece of the Flatirons Fantasy series. This one shows an interacting binary with a cool lobe-filling star that is dumping matter onto a white dwarf companion.

Binary Supernova - A star in a binary system undergoes a supernova explosion. This piece was done for the cover of "Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis" by Kallrath and Milone.

Some older stuff is here.