--- title: NASA Releases 'Vintage' Exoplanet Travel Posters description: Designers NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory capture the excitement of space exploration canonical: https://time.com/3659519/nasa-vintage-exoplanet-travel-posters/ author: Michael Lemonick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-08T19:48:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:21.246Z article:section: Science og:title: These NASA Posters Imagine Vacations on Distant Planets og:description: Designers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory capture the excitement of space exploration og:url: https://time.com/3659519/nasa-vintage-exoplanet-travel-posters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd243b137316219b/698778c5f887dc140fe89664/nasa-exoplanet-vintage-travel-poster-kepler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1835 og:image:height: 1032 og:image:alt: Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These NASA Posters Imagine Vacations on Distant Planets twitter:description: Designers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory capture the excitement of space exploration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd243b137316219b/698778c5f887dc140fe89664/nasa-exoplanet-vintage-travel-poster-kepler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These 'Vintage' NASA Posters Imagine Travel Beyond the Stars > Sponsored content. 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Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction. Relax on Kepler-16b - Where Your Shadow Always Has Company Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.NASA/JPL-Caltech by [Michael Lemonick](https://time.com/author/michael-d-lemonick/) ## Michael Lemonick Jan 8, 2015 7:48 PM UTC Planet-hunters haven’t found a Mirror Earth orbiting a star beyond the Sun yet, but this week’s discovery of a [new batch of exoplanets that come awfully close](http://time.com/3654745/exoplanets-earth-life/), plus the announcement that the amazing Kepler probe has topped the 1,000 mark in its search for alien worlds makes it only a matter of time before we find planets where life might be thriving. Once that happens, of course we’re going to want to go visit.. That’s not going to happen tomorrow: it’s impossible to visit any of these worlds in person with any current technology, so until we build a _Star Trek_\-style warp drive or discover an _Interstellar_\-esque worm hole, a trip to an exoplanet will have to remain a dream. Fortunately, though, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, has some professional dreamers on staff—artists who try to capture the excitement of space exploration in a way the rest of us can appreciate. Their latest creation: three fanciful posters advertising tourism to three actual exoplanets, done in the gorgeously romantic style of 1930’s-era railway posters. This being a NASA lab, they didn’t just make stuff up. “There was a lot of back-and-forth with the scientists,” says David Delgado, one of the designers, “figuring out which exoplanets to choose, then noodling on what it would actually like to visit them.” In the case of Kepler 186f, for example, which was [discovered last year](http://time.com/66649/almost-earth-a-newly-discovered-planet-could-be-a-lot-like-ours/), the planet orbits a small red star. “Maybe the color of vegetation would be different there,” he says—and on the poster, it is. The second poster shows Kepler 16b, [a planet that orbits twin suns](http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2093423,00.html). The third depicts HD 40307g, a so-called Super Earth about 1.4 times the size of our home planet and eight times as massive. All three could in principle be habitable, based on how much heat they get from their stars. “The posters were really designed primarily for use within JPL,” says Joby Harris, another designer on the project. When they were released to the public a few days ago, however, the response was overwhelmingly positive. “We were a little surprised by it,” admits Harris. He shouldn’t be. One of the reasons JPL has these artists on staff, says Delgado, “is to get people excited about space science, to build their curiosity.” They’re clearly exceptionally good at doing their jobs. Three more exoplanet posters are in the works, although there’s no word on when they’ll be finished. For those who want to print out their own posters, high-resolution print-optimized versions are on JPL’s [Planet Quest ](http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/)website.  Relax on Kepler-16b - Where Your Shadow Always Has Company Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction. NASA/JPL-Caltech  HD 40307g - Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307g straddles the line between "Super-Earth" and "mini-Neptune" and scientists aren't sure if it has a rocky surface or one that's buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice. One thing is certain though: at eight time the Earth's mass, its gravitational pull is much, much stronger. NASA/JPL-Caltech  Kepler-186f - Where the Grass is Always Redder on the Other Side Kepler-186f is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler-186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red-wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth. This discovery was made by Kepler, NASA's planet hunting telescope. 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