One of a number of pictures I've done featuring heavenly bodies, this one reflects on how the understanding of our universe has changed dramatically. Aristotle, watching the astronomer, represents the ordered universe, which is also shown by the semicircular rings at the top of the observatory. Within those rings hang numerous stars and all of the visible planets that the ancient Greeks would have been familiar with. Above this ordered universe is a less ordered, more fantastic universe of strangely shaped galaxies that the astronomer is viewing. Within the astronomer's universe, it is possible to see galaxies colliding and stars exploding into supernova.

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