Copernicus' heliocentric model "Copernican Heliocentrism." Wikipedia , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_heliocentrism. Accessed 2 June 2018. The relationship between art and space is very integrated in pop culture. I personally have always been enticed by the mystery and beauty of outer space. The coolest part, to me, is how space is so far away that renditions of how people think space looks like is so integral to the study of astronomy and understanding astrophysics. For example, Copernicus, the German astronomer who came up with the idea of a heliocentric solar system, had to draw out his thoughts in detail because he did not have the technology to just take a picture. Even today we still do not know what the galaxy we live in looks like, but use the knowledge of physics and our limited view of the spiral arms we have studied to create pictures of what we think it looks like (Veronese). Artist's rendition of the space