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Diana Battefeld, Butterfly, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of NGC 6302, photographed by NASA’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team. Aleksander Friedmann did not live to see the impact of his discovery. He died in 1925. The significance of his work was not appreciated until two years …
Diana P. Battefeld, A Dash Against the Green, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Diana P. Battefeld (2015.) Strong Gravitational Lensing, Diana P. Campion, 2016 [Oil on Canvas].
Our Milky Way, Diana P. Battefeld, 2016 [Watercolor on Paper].
Diana P. 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 …
Diana P. 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) …
Diana P. 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 …
Diana P. Battefeld, Time Machine, 2015 [Oil on Canvas]. After an image of the gravitationally lensed galaxy SDP.81. Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA/ESA Hubble, T. Hunter (NRAO). The path light takes is influenced by matter, similar to the orbits of planets around the sun. If light passes a heavy object, its path is …
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 …
Diana P. 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 …