Uranus

Artist Justin Van Genderen has created this selection of space-inspired artwork that will stoke a sense of intergalactic wanderlust. Printed on top-grade art paper, each one is an attractive and imaginative representation of space travel and the stories we tell ourselves about it, making an effective and high-perspective detail that amplifies any wall.

Unlike other planets, Uranus spins with its poles—not its equator—oriented toward the sun. This gives one side of the planet 42 Earth years of sunshine, and the other side 42 years of darkness at a time. Uranus also has sideways rings that circle the planet from north to south, and the planet’s moons all spin sideways. The first and only spacecraft visit to Uranus, in 1986, revealed that even Uranus’ magnetic field is on a sharp diagonal. How did this planet fall over on its side? The latest theory is that it was knocked into an altered orbit by repeated impact from large objects, hundreds of millions of years ago.