2012 March 2
I never thought there could a career known as an astronomical artist, but Fred Burgeot and his rendition of Jupiter's turbulent clouds has changed my preconceived notions. I was under the impression that art skills and astronomy were obsolete with modern day imaging: photographs, 3-D models, animations, etc. It is interesting to see a modern day astronomer draw, with better details, the same celestial objects Galileo looked at in 1610; Fred even managed to sketch the original Galilean moons! It is comforting to know that there are some objects, that age so slowly, the passage of time does not change our observations about them.
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