{"id":784982,"date":"2024-06-28T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T02:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784982"},"modified":"2024-06-28T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T02:50:56","slug":"take-a-look-at-these-stunning-new-exoplanet-infographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=784982","title":{"rendered":"Take a Look at These Stunning New Exoplanet Infographics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martin Vargic is a space enthusiast, author, and graphic artist from Slovakia. He created two new infographic posters that show almost 1600 exoplanets of different types and sizes. One is called Icy and Rocky Worlds, and the other is called The Exoplanet Zoo.<\/p>\n
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Vargic has been interested in astronomy and space for as long as he can remember. When he was 10 years old, he used his family\u2019s telescope to gaze at lunar craters, Jupiter\u2019s moons, and Venus\u2019s phases despite living in areas with lots of light pollution. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn the rare occasions I got to see a clear sky and the Milky Way I was astounded by the sheer amount of stars,\u201d Vargic told Universe Today. <\/p>\n
In 2015, he devoured books on astronomy, cosmology, space exploration, and physics and created the first versions of what would eventually become these ambitious infographics. In 2019, after three years of work, Vargic published a visual book on the universe, astronomy, and space exploration called the \u201cCurious Cosmic Compendium.\u201d In the Compendium, \u201c10 pages were solely dedicated to exoplanets, with their temperature ascending page-by-page until transitioning to brown dwarfs and red dwarf stars,\u201d Vargic told Universe Today. <\/p>\n
All of that work led to these two new exoplanet infographic posters. <\/p>\nThis is \u201cThe Exoplanet Zoo,\u201d one of two new exoplanet infographics from Slovak artist and space enthusiast Martin Vargic. Image Credit and Copyright: Martin Vargic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cWith the help of scientific models and up-to-date information, this poster attempts to artistically visualize together over 1100 known exoplanets of all the different types we have discovered so far, arranged by the amount of heat they receive from their stars, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like,\u201d Vargic explains on his website.<\/p>\n
The poster shows exoplanets in all their weird and wonderful forms. It shows PSR-B1620-26b, the oldest known exoplanet.<\/p>\nThis zoom-in of \u201cThe Exoplanet Zoo\u201d shows the oldest known exoplanet, PSR B1620-26b. Image Credit and Copyright: Martin Vargic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
It also shows WASP-12b, a scorching hot gas giant so close to its star that it\u2019s warped into an egg shape. <\/p>\nYou can\u2019t miss WASP-12b on \u201cThe Exoplanet Zoo.\u201d It\u2019s so close to its star that it\u2019s warped into an egg shape. Image Credit and Copyright: Martin Vargic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cFinishing both infographics took about 6-7 months. I worked on both simultaneously while creating planetary textures and rendering the planets one by one,\u201d Vargic told Universe Today. <\/p>\nMore detail from \u201cThe Exoplanet Zoo.\u201d Eburonia is a gas giant about 134 light-years away. It takes fewer than five days to orbit its star and is named after a Belgic tribe called the Eburones. Image Credit and Copyright: Martin Vargic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cData for both exoplanet infographics was gathered from three public exoplanet databases, The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia, NASA Exoplanet Archive and ExoKyoto,\u201d Vargic explained. The colours of the gas giant exoplanets are based on the Sudarsky Scale. It takes into account the various chemicals and temperatures of planetary atmospheres. Vargic also used existing exoplanet illustrations as a source. <\/p>\nDetail from \u201cThe Exoplanet Zoo.\u201d The planets get progressively hotter from left to right. This detail shows 55 Cancri e, the hottest known rocky exoplanet. Image Credit and Copyright: Martin Vargic. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
See Martin\u2019s work, including high-resolution versions of his infographics, at halcyonmaps.com. <\/p>\n
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