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Oct - Nov 98
COLOR ARTWORK
"Pegasi 51" By Steve Munsinger
Scientists have discovered a small wobble in the orbit of a G-class star in Pegasus. In all likelihood this wobble is caused by a large gas giant in close orbit. Viewed from a hypothetical moon of that gas giant we see the star Pegasi 51. Rising up from below the horizon on the right is a small potato shaped moon that orbits this moon.
"Ancient Encounter" By Michael C. Turner
This is a view from within a ring of debris that was created by the ancient collision of a comet and one of the moons of a gas giant. Another large moon orbits within the ring debris and brandishes an impact crater similar to that of Mimas.
"Mushroom Clouds" By Michael Carroll
A fragment of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 meets a violent end as it explodes in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter forming a giant “mushroom cloud.”
Copyright © 1998
International Association of Astronomical Artists