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Originally Posted by Foebane
Does Peter Jones not know how planetary atmospheres work? The planets in this picture, especially the big orange one, should be BEHIND the green atmospheric haze here, because as it is, they look like they're floating in mid-air like giant balloons.
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True as that may be, reality is not always as exciting. For sci-fi paintings in particular, it was probably more important t0 the artist (and publisher) that the image looked striking than realistic
