Budget Prints
Kim Poor

Kim Poor Budget Prints

Kim Poor was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1952. Now living in Tucson, he has become one of the world's best known space artists. His unique style and dramatic use of color and perspective has won numerous awards and has been seen in many publications worldwide, including OMNI, SCIENCE DIGEST, DISCOVER, ASTRONOMY, SKY & TELESCOPE ANALOG, Germany's KOSMOS, and Russia's popular OGONJOK.

This is a view of a young planet still undergoing "accretion", in which a body sweeps up smaller fragments until it clears an orbit for itself. A primitive atmosphere circles the new planet in blue. Budget Print - Framed $39.00
BOMBARDMENT 		Three months before Halley's appearance in 1910, an unknown comet bright enough to see in the daytime dazzled Earthbound viewers. Budget Print - Framed $59.00
COMET OF 1910 		Originally done for Science Digest magazine, this scene depicts a theory that the space between galaxies is populated by brown dwarfs; large Jupiter sized mini-stars. Budget Print - Framed $69.00
EXTRAGALACTIC JUPITERS 		Large craters and canyons indicate that the moons of Saturn have been shattered by cometary impacts and later re-formed. Budget Print - Framed $49.00
MIMAS ON THE HALF-SHELL 		Painted shortly after the Challenger explosion, this was a tribute reflecting on one of the doomed shuttle's most successful missions: The first Spacelab flight in 1983. Limited Edition Framed $39.00
Challenger Conquers Baja
The artist is known for his colorful nebulae. The green glow from this hypothetical nebula is from triply ionized oxygen. Budget Print - Framed $59.00
PINWHEEL NEBULA 		The planet Mars has the distinction of having the most sand dunes in the solar system. Here the wind snakes across the face of a dune. Budget Print - Framed $69.00
REDSHIFT 		A massive star explodes in a supernova, spreading heavy elements and radiation for light-years in all directions. Budget Print - Framed $69.00
SUPERNOVA 2 		A flower-shaped nebula. Very popular and colorful. Budget Print - Framed $79.00
THE ORCHID NEBULA 		In the aftermath of a collision between two galaxies, the Hubble space telescope recently discovered the first known blue star clusters around the newly-formed core of the resulting new galaxy. Limited Edition Framed $49.00
Hubble Clusters