Dan Durda Space Art Original Paintings

MARS MINIATURE

A small painting painted live at the Novaspace artist's table at Planetfest 99. This is Mars with its inner moon Phobos.

NOVA WIND

When a star goes nova, it blows off a portion of its atmosphere in several violent episodes. The velocity of this discharge is capable of destroying, displacing, or eroding unfortunate planetary systems.

SOLD $950

NEW WORLDS

Gliese 229B is the recently discovered companion planet to the red dwarf star Gliese 229 shown here accompanied by its large, Earth-like moon. At 20 to 50 Jupiter-masses, this "brown dwarf" glows feebly at about 1000 degrees Celsius.

SOLD $750

OPEN CLUSTER

A typical open star cluster, seen from a pair of minor ice planets. Stars in the cluster are bathed in a blue-gray nebulousity left over from the cluster's formation.

SOLD $495

RED GIANT

A small painting painted live at the Novaspace artist's table at Planetfest 99. This is a landscape of a planet orbiting a red giant star, and a small f-type companion star. Elegantly framed.

SOLD $350

STAR CLUSTER

A pair of ice planets wander near a star cluster, 100 light-years distant. The planets are bathed in gaseous nebulosity, which absorbs ultraviolet energy.

SOLD $425

ARCTIC CLUSTER

Very moody piece. Icebergs float on a cold cold sea of a water planet. A nearby star cluster shines with the distant light of a hundred suns, and illuminates the polar sea.

SOLD $425

ICE MOON

Evening on a moon of a faraway terrestrial planet.

SOLD $850