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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jul 13

J1407b also known as a Super-Saturn. Possibly a brown dwarf with a massive ring system with planets forming in it. Now, latest updates on this object suggest that it is not tied to any star and most likely is not illuminated like this. But who knows, maybe somewhere there is a system like this.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jul 11

I based this on one of these Hot Jupiter atmosphere simulations. I'm not sure if it was of a Puffball Planet as there was no mention of it. Thank you!

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jul 11

My interpretation of Vesta's south pole impact that formed Rheasilvia crater. Before impact older Veneneia crater can be seen.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy#Vesta

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jul 8

My interpretation of a Hot Jupiter planet. I looked up some info on Hot Jupiter atmospheric dynamics and this is my best guess what this type of a planet might look like.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 16

Yes! There is still some wiggle space in planetary environments for us to explore. I am working on another picture featuring a massive gas giant and it's habitable moon. I'm not sure when I will be able to finish it though.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 16

I too believe that ocean/atmospheric currents would be able to transfer some of the day side warmth into a night side creating somewhat even temperatures. Maybe this planet could be at the outer edge of it's star's habitable zone only having enough warmth to melt ice in the center of it's dayside.

Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 16

It's a hypothesized type of a planet that due to it being tidally locked the effects of that might result in a planet with an ice free portion of a planet facing it's star while glacial sheet of ice creeps from the night side creating this Eyeball in space effect.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 16

Also some red dwarf stars flare up in their poles instead of equator thus sparing the planets from the worst of the flare effects. As of now we just don't know. In the end I just wanted to paint an eyeball planet. I just think they are very cool. I do not know if any of them exist, I hope they do.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 16

All that is still not set in stone. I have read many opposing research results regarding red dwarf planets. Some state that all these planets would be airless rocks while other researchers argue that magnetic field can still be generated in a tidally locked planets.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Jun 15

A quick painting of an eyeball planet orbiting a red dwarf star.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 31

But but it's so pretty out there...

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 31

I painted it in Photoshop.
It's pure drawing. I gave up on textures long time ago.
Somehow it's easier to just paint it with a couple of brushes instead. Thank you!

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 31

I keep revisiting Triton, Neptune's largest moon.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Neptune

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 30

Jupiter's powerful lightning storms most likely generate lots of transient luminous events.
In this scene, during the early morning hour, as the rising sun lights up the top of a massive thunderstorm a lightning strike generates a gigantic jet, shooting high up in the atmosphere.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 29

Thank you so much! I truly appreciate it.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 29

The character vs how you drew them
#alita #alitabattleangel #battleangel #battleangelalita #gunnm

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 29

Old painting of Jupiter's atmosphere. Two of it's moons, Io and Ganymede, are visible in the sky.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Jupiter

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 27

I did a little bit more research on Jupiter's transient luminous events. This is my attempt to portray one of these events. So, here it is, Jupiter sprites.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Jupiter

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 26

Maat mons erupts on Venus
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Venus

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 5

Ancient worlds carved and shaped by a long lost civilization.

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

This panorama is it. Link to here would be fine :)

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · May 5

A neutron star cannibalizing it's sister star. View from a planet orbiting this restless system. #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Apr 21

Galactic islands #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Apr 19

Neptune visible from the surface of Galatea, one of it's minor moons. #Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #neptune

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Justinas Vitkus @justinasvitkus.bsky.social · Apr 15

#Jupiter's closest moon Metis emerges from the planet's shadow. Rings as well as two Jovian moons can be seen. Io with it's volcanic plumes, sulfur halo and aurora. Europa with hypothesized water ice geysers erupting from it's polar region. Bright blue star in the background is Earth.
#astronomy

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