A Dash Against the Green
March 21, 2016
Diana Battefeld, A Dash Against the Green, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Painting of the Week
Einstein Rings
February 23, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Strong Gravitational Lensing, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Our Milky Way
February 23, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Our Milky Way, 2016 [Watercolor on Paper].
Just a Blob of Gas in Space
January 13, 2016
Diana Battefeld, Just a Blob of Gas in Space, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. Planetary Nebula NGC 2371 – This blob of gas shows the remains of a star that ended its evolutionary life as a white dwarf (this is the fate of our sun in about 5 billion years). The star in the middle is …
Black Hole Jet
December 11, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Genie, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a composite image NASA/CXC/CfA D.Evans et al, NASA/STScI, STFC/JBO/MERLIN. This painting depicts a jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, which deflects it. This false color image combines X-rays (purple), optical and ultraviolet (red and orange) as …
View of Our Galaxy After Horizon Crossing a Schwarzschild Black Hole
December 3, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Horizon Crossed, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After a private correspondence with A. Hamilton, a world’s expert on black hole simulations. A common view of what an observer would see if she crossed the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole and lowers herself towards a singularity is the following: as she approaches a singularity, …
Dandelion
November 19, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Dandelion, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After the Planetary nebula NGC 2392 also known as the Eskimo Nebula. NGC 2392 was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in 2000. It is located within our galaxy 5 000 light years …
Stellar Blast 3 000 Light Years Away
November 11, 2015
Diana Battefeld, Explosion, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of NGC 6543, also known as the Cat Eye Nebula. The original image is a composite of optical images from the HST and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The Big Bang model of the Universe started to gain popularity in the late 1950’s …
Looking into the Abyss
November 6, 2015
Diana Battefeld (2015.) Looking into the Abyss [Oil on Canvas] Göttingen. Visualization appeared in O. James et al., Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (2015) 065001. A black hole is a region in spacetime that is so dense that nothing can escape its gravitational pull, not even light. The gravitational attraction is so large that anything …
A Witch is Unveiled by Rigel
October 29, 2015
Diana Battefeld, A Witch is unveiled by Rigel , 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of NGC 1909 taken by NASA/STScI Digitized Sky Survey. One of the major advances of the twentieth century in theoretical cosmology was made by Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist George Gamow, (1904 – 1968). Lemaitre’s work reached its apotheosis …