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[Visual Dictionary] Out of This World Space Art

You don't need a spaceship to explore the final frontier.

We asked some of our favorite artists to visually define some ideas and genres that had a big presence in 2015. Dave Valeza is a comic book artist and illustrator who has drawn award-winning comics and made headlines in November when Drake posted his work to Instagram without crediting him. He captures the wonder artists worldwide have experienced with the rejuvination of the space industry of the past few years. From finding water on Mars to landing reusable rockets (plural!), 2015 has been a great year for space, and artists are loving it.

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Humans have long been trying to understand space; artists attempt this in their works by striving to capture, replicate, and imagine what space is like! There is a giant cosmos beyond our Earth, and art can become our window to see it.

Check out the artists and organizations who looked up in 2015 below:

+Daniel Arsham

+Astronaut Scott Kelly

+IAm8Bit

+Loop.pH

+NASA

+Matteo Zamagni

Studio Swine, Meteorite Shoes, 2015

+Studio Swine

+Invader

+Giuseppe Lo Schaivo

+Colin Rich

+Marco Brambilla

+Alexis Coram

+Semiconductor

+Arne Quinze

+Philip Klawitter

+Slow Factory

Arne Quinze, Natural Chaos Satellites, 2015

+Nico Antwerp

+Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh

+Andy Weir and Ridley Scott

+Julian Tryba

Huang Yulong, Yue Liang, 2015

+Territory Studio

+Sean Murray

+Harrisonicus

+The Royal Institution

+Nick Refuerzo

+Huang Yulong

See more of Dave Valeza's work on his website.

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