Ever since the beginning of the star wars trilogy, movies and books and comic magazines, have been romanticizing about outer space and the endless possibilities of occurrence in the world unknown. Because so little is known about outer space, the creativity for theories provide freedom beyond the normal human brain. In most movies, the image of space travel, flying through jumps from one barrier to another leading to more and more planets has been cemented in our minds. The most popular movies providing us with these images are Star Trek, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, and pretty much all the Marvel Avengers movies.
The relationship between outer space and art, is where our knowledge of outer space comes from in the first place. From artists drawing pictures of our milky way, to making sculptures of our solar system. Because someone telling people that our earth rotates around a star sounds crazy and nobody would believe it, but when people can visually see how, and what causes the earth to rotate around the sun, it sounds a lot more plausible. Paintings of other planets in our solar system also help visualize what those planets would look like if their planet had our atmosphere and all earth-like features. An example of artists painting pictures of planets from our solar system is from Chesley Bonestell, where her picture shows what the surface of other planets in our solar system look like.
Another way outer space and art are related to one another is through the many constellations created by humans throughout the thousands of years we've studied the stars. The constellations consist of connecting the dots, or drawing lines from one star to another to describe a certain group of stars. Some people use these constellations for travel use, where if needed to follow a certain direction to get to safety, following a certain constellation can lead to open area for safety. Most of the popular constellations are Capricorn, Aquarius, Ares, Taurus, Gemini and more. The constellation names are far easier to remember than remembering every star in the solar system, because there are more stars in the solar systems than there are grains of sand on the Earth.
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