erik g.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

GJ 1061 d is a potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its red dwarf parent star. It is a super-Earth exoplanet 12 light-years from here, with a mass of 1.64 Earths, & it takes 13 days to orbit its star GJ 1061 which is in the southern constellation of Horologium.

Painting with brown, blue, pink, green and gray brush strokes

“In the labyrinth of GJ 1061 d: stars in their eyes amongst otherworldly stone mementos”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

32nd in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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But I have this sense with half of what I paint, which can't actually be the case. I’ve come to realize I can’t evaluate the quality of my own art objectively.

Something that happens to me more often than not recently is I spend so much time on an artwork that all I can see is all the details and aspects that I love. For example, my current work in progress that will be published tomorrow: I feel like its my best yet. (continued)

Kepler-1126 may be a superhabitable world which is a hypothetical type of planet or moon that is better suited than Earth for the emergence and evolution of life.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

At 3.7 Earth masses, Kepler-1126 b is a Super Earth located 2072 light years from us. Super Earths might be terrestrial worlds like Earth, or they could be ocean worlds or terrestrial worlds with an atmosphere.

Painting with blue, green, black, yellow, white and gray brush strokes

“A mass of matter prospecting life on Kepler-1126b”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

31st in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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The star TOI-715 is a red dwarf star located 140 light years from the Earth in the constellation Volans, very close to our southern celestial pole.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

TOI-715 b is a super-Earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of its parent M-type star, TOI-715. The planet is 1.55 times larger than Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of its star.

For some, a motivation for space travel might be a grand vision of ruling an entire planet. We may not even recognize the ruler anymore--look at what happened to Alexander the Great after conquering ancient Persia.

Painting with blue, green, brown, white and gray brush strokes

“When I ruled the exo-world TOI-715 b”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

30th in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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a closeup from a painting on recycled mat board with nontoxic acrylics

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These juxtapositions are interesting... creates a dynamic beyond any one painting. Keep making more 🙂

Kepler-452b's star is 1.5 billion years older than Sol (our sun). It is considered a potentially habitable world, and has had more time for life to develop.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

Kepler-452b is possibly a rocky planet with many volcanos. It orbits its star at nearly the same distance as Earth from the Sun, with a “year” of roughly 385 days, and has a radius of around 1.63 times that of Earth. The planet is about 1,800 light-years away from here.

Painting with blue, brown, tan, white and gray brush strokes

“Velvet morning on Earth 2.0 (Kepler-452b)”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

29th in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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HD 137010 b could be a rocky planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star about 146 light-years away. While most news stories have called it a very cold world, if its atmosphere has more CO2 than Earth, it could be temperate and/or watery.

Painting with blue, orange, red, violet, white and gray brush strokes

“It was nobody's fault (the incident on HD 137010 b)”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

28th in my “Exoplanet” series

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Painting with orange, brown, blue, violet and gray brush strokes

“Rays of mountain wisdom ascending”

In my panpsychism series that explores if consciousness is not limited to humans & animals.

© 2026 by Erik Goetze

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55 Cancri e was discovered in 2004, making it the first super-Earth discovered around a main sequence star. The exoplanet's year (time to complete an orbit) is 18 hours long.

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Second image is zoomed in detail.

55 Cancri e is an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like host star, 55 Cancri A which is 41 light years away from Earth. The mass of the exoplanet is about eight Earth masses and its diameter is about twice that of the Earth.

Painting with yellow, blue, red, green, white and gray brush strokes

Detail of painting

“Face off with the extreme astrophysics of 55 Cancri e”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

27th in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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Whoops, had a mishap in posting, accidentally posted twice. Deleted extra one.

Trying to imagine how an exoplanet in the habitable zone may have quite different geography from Earth.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

K2‑18b is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf K2-18, 124 light-years from here. The planet is a sub-Neptune about 2.6 times the radius of Earth, with a 33-day orbit within the star's habitable zone; it receives about the same amount of light as the Earth receives from the Sun.

Painting with blue, purple, red, green, white and gray brush strokes

“The narrative of unsettled water on K2‑18b”

© Copyright 2026 by Erik Goetze

26th in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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Trying to imagine how an exoplanet in the habitable zone may have quite different geography from Earth.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.

K2‑18b is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf K2-18, 124 light-years from here. The planet is a sub-Neptune about 2.6 times the radius of Earth, with a 33-day orbit within the star's habitable zone; it receives about the same amount of light as the Earth receives from the Sun.

I don’t use AI tools to make my art. And AI tools do not have permission to train on or assimilate my art.

I have been using the same digital painting app since 1999.