16×20-inch on stretched canvas - This piece will be for sale in October.
Periastron Albedo imagines a distant super‑Earth at the brightest moment of its orbit — the instant it swings closest to its star. At periastron, a world is flooded with radiation, its atmosphere glowing with reflected light, its surface revealing clues about what it’s made of. Astronomers study these flashes of brightness to understand planets we may never see directly.
This painting lives in that moment of illumination. The sweeping curve of the planetary limb, the concentrated glow along its edge, and the cool scattering of starlight all echo the real physics of reflectivity — albedo — and the way light behaves when it meets an unfamiliar world.
It’s a piece about curiosity, about the science of distant places, and about the quiet thrill of imagining what might exist far beyond our own orbit. A reminder that even the smallest glimmer can reveal an entire planet’s story.
16×20-inch on stretched canvas - This piece will be for sale in October.
Periastron Albedo imagines a distant super‑Earth at the brightest moment of its orbit — the instant it swings closest to its star. At periastron, a world is flooded with radiation, its atmosphere glowing with reflected light, its surface revealing clues about what it’s made of. Astronomers study these flashes of brightness to understand planets we may never see directly.
This painting lives in that moment of illumination. The sweeping curve of the planetary limb, the concentrated glow along its edge, and the cool scattering of starlight all echo the real physics of reflectivity — albedo — and the way light behaves when it meets an unfamiliar world.
It’s a piece about curiosity, about the science of distant places, and about the quiet thrill of imagining what might exist far beyond our own orbit. A reminder that even the smallest glimmer can reveal an entire planet’s story.