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acompas discovered 2 months ago- In a world... Scientists activate their imagination, supported with their data, to paint us a picture of what other worlds look like, beyond our solar neighborhood. "What the space artist does is take raw data - the size of an extra-solar planet, say, or what scientists can deduce about its chemical composition, light emissions, mass, orbital track - and create a plausible picture," said Aguilar, who studied natural sciences at the graduate level and taught himself the basics of illustration as a youth by sketching starfish in tidal pools in his native California.
