Solar Sail
a ship driven by the weak but persistent pressure of sunlight gracefully glides past an extrasolar planet ; acrylic on board, 1979
Project Cyclops
Project Cyclops - an enormous metalized balloon shields a giant radiotelescope from earth's radio interference, in a search for alien signals ; cover painting for "Science Digest", acrylic on masonite, 1978
Tacking Sunward
Tacking Sunward - a solar sail gracefully unfurls behind the moon ; acrylic on board, 1980
Toroid Space Colony
a classical toroidal space colony which rotates to simulate gravity ; acrylic, 1980
German Space Telescope
Planetenteleskop - German space telescope orbits high above the earth, acrylic on illustration board, 1989, © Don Dixon
Gravitational Lens Telescope
one-tenth of a light year out, a giant detector captures photons refracted by the sun's gravity to image distant galaxies, acrylic © Don Dixon
Return to Earthport
Return To Earthport - a returning Mars expedition docks at a space station. Acrylic, 1987.
Hubble Space Telescope
shuttle approaches Hubble Space Telescope, Painted in collaboration with Rick Sternbach, copyright Perkin-Elmer Corporation 1984
Shuttle Mission Profile Diagram
Hamilton Collection commemorative plate showing stages of a space shuttle mission
Astronaut MMU Flight
Hamilton Collection plate commemorating first free flying extra vehicular activity on shuttle mission
Cyclotron
In a cyclotron, or toroidal particle collider, such as the LHC in Geneva, streams of protons are accelerated in oppoisite directions by magnetic fields and then are deflected to collide head-on. The resulting burst of sub-atomic particles tells us much about the nature of the universe. Digital, for Scientific American, 2005. © 2005 by Don Dixon.