Stellarium (Origins): A Space-Time Adventure to the Ends of our Universe (19 page)

Fabricio Simoes is a Mechatronics
Engineer with a Master's Degree in Aeronautics. He works as a Marketing
Director at a large multinational technology company. He is passionate about
science, innovation and great human achievements.

He writes fiction and
non-fiction, and published his first book fifteen years ago with a publisher
based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Born and raised in São Paulo
—
but also living many years in Porto Alegre
—
he now resides in Texas, United States,
with his wife and children.

Contact:
[email protected]

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Images were used throughout this
book to illustrate different situations and set the stage for the story. Some
of them were taken out of their original context.

Below is a list of all the images
used, with credits, as well their real-life context in cases where said context
was altered in the book:

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– Credits: Marty Harris / McDonald Observatory.

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– Credits: John Moore.

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– Used under license from Shutterstock.com.

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– Credits: NASA; Artistic illustration of the
SLS.

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– Credits: NASA; Depiction of the Orion in
space.

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– Credits: NASA / Robert Markowitz.

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– Credits: NASA / Bill Stafford.

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– Credits: Topwalls.net; Image of a planet.

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– Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight /
Wiessinger; Artistic illustration of the DG CVn binary system. The image was
altered with the addition of an illustration (also altered) of the Orion
spacecraft.

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– Used under license from Shutterstock.com. The
original image was altered to include the Orion-II spaceship as per the
author’s description.

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– Credits: NASA; Adapted from original image:
Astronaut Chris Cassidy, EVA #23 on the ISS.

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– Credits: NASA; Image of the NGC 4414 galaxy, a
typical spiral galaxy approximately 60 million light years from Earth.

IMG
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– Used under license from Shutterstock.com. The
original image was altered to include the Orion-II spaceship as per the
author’s description.

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– Credits: NASA; The ISS control room at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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– Used under license from Shutterstock.com.

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– Credits: unknown; Available at Goista.com.

IMG
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– Collage created by the author with images from
NASA.

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– Credits: NASA; Illustration of the Orion
spacecraft arriving on the moon.

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– Credits: ESA / Foster & Partners;
Illustration of a lunar base on the moon.

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– Used under license from Shutterstock.com.

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– Credits: NASA / Apollo 8.

Cover
– Credits: adapted from an image by NASA (astronaut Chris Cassidy)
and Brandon Schurtz (blue rays adapted from his work “Blue Rays”).

BOOK 2

STELLARIUM (TWIN EARTH)

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Coming
in 2017
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