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Planet Formation318 viewsThe early solar system was a maelstrom of violence as planetesimals collided with one another and with the forming planets. Digital painting, cover comp for Scientific American, 2008; © Don Dixon / cosmographica.com (1 votes)
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Jupiter Balloon Probe2888 viewsA balloon filled with hot hydrogen drifts through a fantastic cloudscape filled with columns of hydrocarbon rain; 51x32 cm, acrylic and gouache on board, 1982; $1625 [SOLD] (35 votes)
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Red Giant Sun2483 viewsFive billion years in the future, Earth is a barren cinder baking in the radiance of its swollen sun. A distant moon transits. Acryic and gouache on illustration board, 15x10.5 inches, 1992. Original painting by Don Dixon; $3,700 (35 votes)
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Galaxy RIsing2720 viewsGiclee PRINT, signed,numbered and remarqued for Norwescon convention 2005. A moon rises over an earthlike world high above our galaxy's north pole. Cover for "Mountain Astrologer" magazine. 42x31 cm. $290 (36 votes)
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Geyser on Titan2175 viewsThis remarkably prescient painting captured the general appearance of the Huygens probe landing site three decades before we obtained the first image from the surface of Titan. Gouache on illustration board, 11.5 x 13 inches, 1973. Original painting by Don Dixon; $4,200 (27 votes)
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Quasar2446 viewsThe core of a young galaxy blazes as its central black hole grows. Acrylic on illustration board, 34x48 cm, 1996; $2,800 (24 votes)
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051 Uranus1398 viewsUranus on the horizon of its moon Oberon, acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 1976 (10 votes)
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The Jovian Aurora2293 viewsStylized portrayal of Jupiter's moons seen beyond an auroral display high in Jupiter's atmosphere; acrylic on illustration board, 55x25 cm, 1980; $3,700 (23 votes)
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Formation of the Solar System3214 viewsIcy planetesimals collide above a red-hot protoearth as the newborn sun flares in the background; created for the German coffee-table book "Terramagica"; 18.25x13.5 inches acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 1994; $4,950 (35 votes)
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Earth Crossing Asteroid2245 viewsAn earth-grazer plummets past the moon. Acrylic on illustration board, 35x24 cm, 1987; $1,680 (29 votes)
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