‘Leaving the sun (below), the other star sped away into space.’
‘When the original sun broke in half, terrific light burst from the hot faces that were exposed. The force of this light drove the two masses apart by recoil, like skyrockets.’
#CharlesBittinger #TheSun #cosmogony
‘As the sun broke into two stars, smaller fragments also were ejected’
‘These became the planets. Tidal forces slowed down the rotation of the two large masses, and some of their momentum was transferred to the newborn worlds.’
#CharlesBittinger #TheSun #planets #cosmogeny
‘In a breakup of the sun the earth and planets may have been born’
‘In a distant past, according to one theory, the sun was rotating so fast that it began to fly apart. Huge bulges developed on it, as shown here.’
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‘Saturn, with its strange revolving rings, as seen from an asteroid 500,000 miles away’
#CharlesBittinger #astronomy #SpaceArt #Saturn #asteroids
Mars’ diameter is about half that of the Earth. It is extremely doubtful that there are any “Martians” in existence.’
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‘Eclipse of the Earth from the moon’ Painting by #CharlesBittinger.
#NationalGeographic, LXXVI no.1, July 1939.
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The constellation Orion is shown at upper right.’
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#Orion
‘Light, here shown split into its #spectrum of colors, has taught us almost all we know of the universe’
‘In this demonstration a reflected beam of sunlight, entering through a slot in the window, is broken up by the #prism and thrown on the screen.’
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‘In these paintings Mr. Bittinger has combined a fine sense of color values and artistic composition with a painstaking effort to achieve scientific accuracy. Small details of shadows and angles in the pictures, hardly noticeable to the layman, were worked out by the artist as carefully as the more obvious features. In this he received valuable assistance from members of the staffs of the United States Naval Observatory, Pasadena, California, Lowell Observatory Flagstaff, Arizona, and the National Bureau of Standards. . . . “In planning and working out the paintings which accompany this article,” said Mr. Bittinger, “I came to feel more than ever that astronomy is the greatest monument to human intelligence, which has explored out into unimaginable depths of space with nothing more tangible than the fragile waves of light. . . .”’ images from http://chriswondra.com/2007/11/24/old-national-geographic-magazines-trash-or-time-capsule/
In #JULY 1939
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Cover of National Geographic, LXXVI no.1, July 1939
Featuring “The Solar System’s Eternal Show” - 10 paintings by Charles Bittinger (1879-1970), physicist (3 years MIT) and artist (École de Beaux Arts, Paris)
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