{"id":492,"date":"2007-11-02T07:27:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T17:45:11","slug":"depicting-exoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Depicting Exoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/exoplanet.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Extrasolar Planet Rendering' \/>Here&#8217;s a neat article from Scientific American: When a new extrasolar planet is discovered, how do the artists illustrate a planet they&#8217;ve never seen?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When astronomers make a sexy new discovery that doesn&#8217;t lend itself easily to visual inspection, they turn to artists like [Lynette] Cook to bring it to life. A compelling image has the power to transform even the most complex data into an easy-to-grasp mental snapshot, but it runs the risk of fooling people into believing an iffy scientific case is closed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice image gallery, and exo-artist Lynette Cook has her own <A HREF=\"http:\/\/extrasolar.spaceart.org\/space.html\">Website<\/A> which features more of her work.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?articleid=FB77F014-E7F2-99DF-37E95D5497B875BE\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat article from Scientific American: When a new extrasolar planet is discovered, how do the artists illustrate a planet they&#8217;ve never seen? When astronomers make a sexy new discovery that doesn&#8217;t lend itself easily to visual inspection, they turn to artists like [Lynette] Cook to bring it to life. A compelling image has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}