The Art of Exoplanets

One of the things that amazes me is the ability of making us imagine how outer worlds may look like through the production of credible idealisation of those planets based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star.

Artist's concept by Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle show us how planetary systems may look like and Hurt and his colleague, multimedia producer Tim Pyle, developed a series of arresting, photorealistic images of what the new system's tightly packed planets might look like.

This film show us some of their projects and no doubt they have helped us to have a detailed perspective about these planets atmospheres, mountain relief and geology.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mexico - Life UNDER SEA

Jason de Cairos Taylor sculptures

Life is exploding on the reefs of Cancun, Mexico. By the hand of Jason de Cairos Taylor, an undersea museum is being shaped with the help of the Cancun community where many of its citizens have served as models for Taylor's sculptures. 

 Named, 'Man on Fire' (based on a local fisherman), the 'Collector of Lost Dreams' and 'Gardener of Hope', the first parts of this submarine museum was submerged in 2009. Later, the main group - which consists of 400 figures weighing over 120 tonnes - was submerged during the following years, off the coast of Mexico. When this occurs, the artist loses the 'aesthetic control' over his work, which will be in further on in charge of nature. 

"Ring of Children"

The idea is connected with prevention measures given the environmental decline of coral reefs, originated by natural disasters as well as for drastic climate changes which caused the disappearance of some significant coral reef areas. 

The sculptures made of a chemical composition of cement promote the colonization of marine life, which in time will cover the carvings in different colors. 

Taylor's sculptures have been listed, by National Geographic, as one of the top 25 Wonders of the World.

"Silent Evolution"

The Faith on the Divine Knowing Smile

Credits: Sun Zifa, Imaginechina/AP

There was a superstition, in ancien China, that in case of wars and danger, people should bury some  Buddhist statues as a way of expressing their faith hoping that joyful and better days would come. 

In time of crises people have always gathered their own strength anchoring their hopes near the divine. Some, is said, have achieved miracles.

Maybe that's way scientists have found, last month of March, nearly 3.000 Buddha statues buried in dirt in Handan (map), a remote region of China, dating the discovery with 1.500 years old.

The discovery is believed to be the largest of its kind since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told reporters in late March, according to the Associated Press.

"It may have been that some of the ruins and broken sculptures from the past were gathered from old temple sites and buried in a pit," said Katherine Tsiang, director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.   from here

Kadinsky : Muscle - Nerve - Skin

Kadinsky took the oportunity of a scientific study concerning small flies development and painted this 20 section fruit fly embryos, full of colour, revealing different kinds of tissues types.

Muscles, nerves and skin.

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Image: Courtesy of Yoosik Kim and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman Princeton University and Kwanghun Chung and Hang Lu Georgia Institute of Technology