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A marvelous naval-themed spaceship painted by John Berkey. It's a silver wedge screaming across space, kicking up a trail of rainbow colored fire in its wake. A planet and its moons hang in the background, painted in a range of blues that sort of sink into the inky navy-black space behind.

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A marvelous naval-themed spaceship painted by John Berkey. It's a silver wedge screaming across space, kicking up a trail of rainbow colored fire in its wake. A planet and its moons hang in the background, painted in a range of blues that sort of sink into the inky navy-black space behind.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 21:14:59 UTC Robert McNees

Some blessed reddit user made a very high resolution scan of the John Berkey painting used as the cover for National Geographic's "Picture Atlas of Our Universe."
This specific spaceship absolutley lit my brain on fire when I was a kid.
Here is the post, with a few different resolutions and crops:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryStarships/comments/b0fnl9/our_universe_by_john_berkey_5871x2763/

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