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Dixon, Don (b.1951)

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Name
Dixon, Don (b.1951)
Nationality
American
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The disappearance of the dinosaurs - Artist view - Tertiary dawn - Artist view - Artist view of the impact of the asteroid responsible for the disappearance of dinosaurs, about 65 million years ago. A sauropod grazes peacefully in the last seconds before the impact that ended the age of dinosaurs
Gravitational Waves - Gravitational Waves: Two colliding neutron stars create a gravitational wave that spreads over the space-time fabric. Artist's impression of two neutron stars - the compact remnants of what were once massive stars - spiralling towards each other just before merging. The collision of these dense, compact objects produced gravitational waves - fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime - that were detected by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration on 17 August 2017.
The solar system - Our solar system - Artwork - Illustration of the planets of the solar system. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Kuiper's belt is shown. Diagram of the sun and planets showing their relative scale. The bluish haze beyond the orbit of Neptune represents the inner Kuiper Belt where dwell Pluto and other minor planets. The relative distances of the planets are NOT to scale
Apollo 11: Artist view - Apollo 11 - Artist view - Apollo 11 astronauts deployed the American flag on July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 astronauts unfurl the U.S. flag on July 20, 1969. Acrylic and gouache study for Hamilton Collection commemorative plate, 1993
Impact of an asteroid on the Yucatan - Yucatan impact - Artist view - Artist view of the impact of the asteroid that would have fallen on the Yucatan peninsula about 65 million years ago. This asteroid 10 km in diameter would be responsible for the disappearance of dinosaurs. An asteroid 5-10 miles across impacts in the Yucatan to end the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A fine layer of clay, rich in the element iridium - more concentrated in meteorites than in terrestrial rocks - marks the geological boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary eras. This clay layer is believed to have precipitated out of a plant-blanketing cloud of dust that was ejected into the atmosphere by the impact and subsequent fires. The dust darkened and cooled the earth so much that many species became extinct
Mission New Worlds: The New Worlds mission is a space mission proposal being studied by NASA. Its concept is based on the association of a space telescope with a large occulter (starshade) which places in space a long distance from it (several tens of thousands of kilometres) and designed to block the light of the central star in order to observe its exoplanets. Observations could be made with an existing space telescope, such as the James-Webb Space Telescope (JWST) once launched. A space telescope observes planets orbiting a distant star whose glare has been blocked by a flower-shaped screen the size of a football field. In reality, the starshade would be almost as far from the telescope as the moon is from earth
Collision between the Andromede Galaxy and the Lactee Way - Dead Earth far future - In several billions of years, the Sun will have aneantit all life on Earth. Yet if a life form persists, it will then witness the collision between the Andromede galaxy and our lactee path, creating a wave of star formation in the sky. Bilions of years hence, the sun will swell, warm, and boil away earth's oceans, transforming our once - verdant world into a desiccated wastleand. Whatever intelligent beings might exist then may gaze over the salt flats of extinct seas at a cosmic spectacle, the slow - motion collision between our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, which will trigger a wave of star formation
Artist's view of Saturn's rings - Artist's view of Saturn's rings - Artist's view of Saturn's rings, and some of its satellites
Our Galaxy, the Lactee Way -Artist's View - Our Galaxy, the Lactee Way -Artist's View
Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe - View of Dark Energy Artist who Creates and Accelerates the Expansion of the Universe
View of an asteroid exploding above Earth - Greenland meteor - Artist view - Artist view of the fall of a meteorite in Greenland. On December 9, 1997, a huge fireball was observed by several witnesses. The impact on Earth was detected by satellite; the object reportedly broke into four pieces before touching the ground. Recreation of a meteor that may have exploded over Greenlan
Terraformation de Mars-Vue d'artiste - Mars terraforming - Artist view - Illustration made for the cover of a short story by Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars la verte. Cover for “” Green Mars”” by Kim Stanley Robinson shows cliffside dwellings in the canyons of Mars
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