Don Davis
Space Art Limited Editions

DOUBLE DAWN AT ALPHA CENTAURI

The two major stars of the triple star system of Alpha Centauri are about to rise over a planet at dawn. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to Earth, at 4 light years. The brightest of the three (called A) is about the same size as the Sun. The other two stars are cooler and redder.

A PORTRAIT OF HOME

This exquisitely detailed work shows our home planet on a moonlit night in October.

Astronauts say the range of brightness seen here is easily visible to the eye, but not to the camera, making this view impossible to photograph.

From space mankind supplies city lights as well as flares from oil wells. Natural phenomena include lightning, and the northern lights (in a ring around the magnetic pole).

THE FREEZING OF ANCIENT EUROPA

Europa is an ice covered moon of Jupiter. Don transports us back four billion years when Jupiter was still a red-hot protoplanet, and Europa's global water ocean was just beginning to cool and freeze. Today, Europa's ocean still exists under the icy shell.