224-antares-dawn-dixon - This complex astronomical illustration features a busy orbital sector populated by advanced space exploration hardware. In the center foreground, a massive interstellar vessel equipped with a large, spoke-supported centrifugal habitat ring and clusters of spherical fuel tanks or cargo modules angles sharply away from the viewer, revealing a trio of powerful main engine thrusters. In the lower left, two astronauts on a spacewalk maneuver near the surface of a detailed orbital shipyard or larger space station structure. The background is dominated by a heavily cratered brown moon, a distant green gas giant, and the violent, fiery corona of a massive exploding star in deep space. Cover for novel by Michael McCollum, acrylic and gouache, 1986.
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