Bob Eggleton Space Art Limited Editions

BLUES FOR NEPTUNE

Painted after attending the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989, Bob used blues and purples to convey the ultimate chill of standing on Triton, the coldest moon in the solar system.

Although seen as a bright object in Voyager photos, in reality the sunlight at Neptune's distance is as feeble as moonlight is here on Earth. An "ice volcano" erupts in the distance.

THAW

Done for the cover of Amazing Stories, this print shows us an ice planet near a pair of colliding galaxies, undergoing a periodic thaw, the result of an episodic orbit.

Mars is in an episodic orbit which allows long periods of temperate climate between ice ages.

Short Edition

THE SNOWS OF JASPER

Binary and multiple star systems are the norm, and not the exception throughout the Universe.

Here is a binary star system seen from a hypothetical planet's polar region. The interacting magnetic fields cause colorful, dancing Aurorae, whose colors are reflected in the icy landscape.

DAVID AND GOLIATH

Most stars are members of a binary or multiple star system. Typically the stars are of two different types orbiting each other.

Here a red supergiant star is being slowly devoured by a smaller, younger, more energetic blue-white star. (Kind of like life, isn't it?)

SANDS OF MARS

Every two years, savage dust storms cover the globe of Mars for months. Here a dust front begins to blanket Valles Marineris, the vast canyon system on Mars.

THE LAST PLANET

From the icy surface of Pluto, the Sun is only a bright star. Pluto's moon Charon, nearly half as large as Pluto itself, looms large on the horizon.

During its current "springtime", the Last Planet dips inside the orbit of Neptune and warms up enough to generate a thin, hazy atmosphere, which will freeze out again for most of its 248-year orbit.