Galactic Remix
As an assignment for the Art and Science of Aerospace Culture to present a series of remote sensing images, I decided to pursue a different objective. I took images from several imaging satellites orbiting Earth, and composite them with other images, to create a "galactic remix".
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Hand of God series
This series shows several collages of humans and the cosmos, in an effort to consider several different concepts of an omnipotent being.
The touch of a hand
The image of the V838 Moncerotis red supergiant is from the Hubble imaging satellite (Credit: NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond - STSci). The image of the hand is by Maciej Ciupa of Biskupiec, Poland (ciupa@op.pl)
The huge evergrowing pulsating brain that rules from the center of the ultraworld
The first image is the stellar death of planetary nebula NGC 7027 taken by Hubble (Credit: NASA, H.E. Bond - STSci). The image of the brain is by the Virtual Human Initiative.
There's a party in my galaxy
The first image is taken by Hubble, and is a Black Eye galaxy that resulted from an abrasive collision (Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI), Acknowledgment: S. Smartt (Institute of Astronomy) and D. Richstone (U. Michigan)) The image of the rocker hand is by Chris Sanchez of Franklin Park, IL (iamjamoke@gmail.com)
The overseeing eye
The first image is the glow of a nearby planetary nebula taken by Hubble (Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO)). The eye is a photo by Dora Mitsonia (float_d@yahoo.com).
The wish giver
The first photo is the Trifid Nebula taken by Hubble (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)). The image of the woman is by Steve Landis.
Demon Series
In contrast with the Hand of God series, this shows the fiery and awe-inspiring aspects of the cosmos, composited with similarly-forboding demon images.
Demonic spawn of the cosmos
The first image is the burst of a star in the core of a galaxy, imaged by Hubble (Credits: NASA, Gerald Cecil (University of North Carolina), Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo- Australian Observatory), and Alex Filippenko (University of California at Berkeley)). The second image is a portrait by Nicolas Abadjian of New York, NY (nicodemus1019@yahoo.com)
Demon inside the fire
The solar image was taken by the SOHO Solar Imaging satellite (Credit: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA). The devil drawing is a sketch by an unknown internet source
Planet Repurpose Series
Taking images of the bodies orbiting our sun and placing them in situations where they do not belong.
From whence the moon came
"The galactic image is the Messier 104 "Sombrero" galaxy taken by Hubble (Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)). The image of the moon is taken by the ASTER satellite (Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)"
The giant spider of Saturn's Tethys moon
The photo of Saturn's Tethys moon is taken by the Cassini deep space explorer. The image of the spider is by Jorge Del Toro of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico (bullgeo@hotmail.com)
Happy birthday, Earth!
The moon image is from the ASTER satellite (Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team). The bow was photographed by Jyn Meyer from Spokane, WA (sxc@jynmeyer.com)
What a lovely night
The earth image is a multi-sensor composite photo created by Reto Stockli with the help of Alan Nelson, under the leadership of Fritz Hasler, using NOAA's Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) + others. The second image is the M51 whirlpool galaxy photographed by Hubble (Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
Rings of Earth
The photo of Saturn's rings is from Hubble (Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Clarke (Boston University), and Z. Levay (STScI)). The photo of Earth is by the Galileo spacecraft.
Ariel View series
Mainly concerned with arial views from the Iknonos, Modis, and Aster imaging sensors, this series seeks to change their focus through photoshopping.
It began in Afrika
The arial image of Africa's dust storm is from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite. The images of the smoke is from Lucretious of Salonika, Thessaloniki, Greece (lucretious@gmail.com)
This is the big one
Hurricane Kate is photographed by the MODIS sensor on the Terra satellite. The galaxy is courtesy of Hubble (Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
A Vatican hurricane
The photo of Hurricane Kate is from the MODIS sensor on the Terra satellite. The image of the Vatican's spiral staircase is by Roman Tutschek of Wien, Wien, Austria (r.tutschek@designkanzlei.com)
The US Navy on a Venitian holiday
The arial photograph of Venice is by the Ikonos imaging satellite. The photograph of the battleship is taken from a Pearl Harbor photograph from Ikonos.
That is one large island
The image of the island is from the ASTER imaging satellite (Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team). The interior galaxy is a Hubble photograph of the Tarantula Nebula showing many generations of stars (Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI / NASA))
Worshipping the Suez canal
The overhead image of the Suez canal is from the ASTER imaging satellite (Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team). This has been pasted into a stained-glass image by Michael Slonecker of Windermere, Florida (slonecker@earthlink.net)
Skysitter
The overhead arial shot of Denver is the first public image of Denver, generated by the Ikonos satellite. The shot of the child's legs is from Gabe Guterres of Soquel, CA (beatnikman@juno.com)
ET Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel tower image is by Riccardo Lisoni of Italy (liric58@yahoo.it). This is composited with a photo of the WFPC2 galaxy (Credit: NASA, John Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and James Westphal (California Intitute of Technology))