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In this film, I make an art-meets-science attempt to imagine what we might see on several exoplanets discovered so far in our Milky Way.

It’s artistic because the data we have is still limited: we often only have instrumental measurements, and in some cases spectra that hint at atmospheric components. Many parameters remain uncertain or model-dependent, so the visuals are plausible interpretations, not photographs.

It’s scientific in spirit because I grounded the work in published datasets (NASA and other catalogs). For each world, I tried to roughly model illumination, the number of suns in the sky, and likely temperature or volcanic regimes based on what is currently known about the host star, orbital distance, and orbital period. From there I made assumptions consistent with known physical processes to build coherent surface scenes. I intentionally did not depict organic life, to avoid pushing the visuals into pure fantasy. That may become a separate project.

I invite you on a visual journey to worlds that may exist right now somewhere in our galaxy, as I imagined them.

Original music for this film was recorded especially for the project by my friend and brilliant composer NordWhirl — thank you for the atmosphere and emotion.
https://suno.com/@nordwhirl

Tools used: ChatGPT and Midjourney for planetary concept development and scene generation; Adobe After Effects and DaVinci Resolve for final editing and color grading.

Major scientific sources used (selection):

1) NASA Exoplanet Archive (NExScI / Caltech): https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/
2) NASA Science – Exoplanets (overview): https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/
3) NASA Science – Exoplanet Catalog: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/exopla...
4) PHL – PHL’s Exoplanets Catalog (PHL-EC, CSV and methodology): https://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exo...
5) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (exoplanet.eu): https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/

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