Natural History Infographic & Illustration Series: "Big Bang to Earth Formation"
Source Image Layout & Compositing, and Original Hand-made 2D and 3D Renderings
(details and source image credits below)
Image Details & Credits, from bottom to top: Africa at Night, Earth Forms: The Hadean Eon, & Asteroid in Motion: 3D modeled/rendered in Blender w/ texture maps from NASA, NOAA & ESO. | Solar Coronagraph Composite "Busy Days for SOHO"; source images NASA/SDO/SOHO. | Solar Strata Quadriptych; Solar discs and textures hand-made from scratch in Photoshop, limb, sunspot & CME textures courtesy NASA/SDO. | Proto-planetary disc & sun made from scratch in Photoshop, background nebula by ESO, planetary formation simulation frames by Daniel Price, Monash University, enhanced. | Photo-enhanced galaxy formation; enlarged and enhanced frames from galaxy formation simulation video by Nbodyshop, U. of Washington & McMaster U., background Milky-Way by ESO. | "Our Place in a BIG Bang"; composite of images from NASA/WMAP, Planck Institute Millenium Simulation, supercluster & local group by Melanie Pahlmann, Milky Way planar view by NASA, Milky Way background by ESO.
