The Two-Light Terrace
Kepler-38 b · A planet orbiting an eclipsing binary
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The Distant Blue Court
HD 106906 b · A young planetary companion far from its binary stars
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Stillness at the Red Limb
AU Mic b · Magnetic activity and circumstellar debris around a young red dwarf
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The Cherry-Crescent Salt Garden
GJ 504 b · Direct imaging and the modeled color of a substellar companion
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The Occultation Basin
KOI-351 h · A hypothetical stellar occultation in the Kepler-90 system
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The Helix Garden
Aster Vale · fictional world near the Helix Nebula · The expelled gas envelope of a dying Sun-like star
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The Whirlpool Shore
Nacre · fictional world in the outer halo near M51 · Spiral structure and a companion galaxy
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The Veil over the Amber Steppe
Sere · fictional world with a view toward the Cygnus Loop · Filamentary shock fronts in a supernova remnant
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The Two-Tailed Visitor
Ilyra · fictional wetland world and local comet · Different behavior of cometary dust and ion tails
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The Auroral Balance
Thal · fictional magnetized mountain world · Charged particles exciting an upper atmosphere
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The astronomy behind each scene.
Named planets, host systems, galaxies, nebulae and established astronomical processes are the scientific references. Beings, cultures, local terrain, atmospheres and moons are imagined. Scenes on invented worlds have no confirmed exoplanet assignment. Each wallpaper includes sources, uncertainties and rendering assumptions.