It sure looks like an astronomical photo of the planet Jupiter, but <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZtMQCJsew/">it’s not</a>. Let’s take a step back.

This is a bodypainting by Filippo Ioco, an Italian artist who paints on both <a href="https://www.iocoart.com/works-on-canvas/">canvases</a> and <a href="http://www.iocobodyart.com/">human bodies</a>. He’s become especially famous for his bodypaintings in which he disguises forms and messages on models.In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CK_NfxGpRot/">this image</a>, the goddess figure that forms the universe has been covered with black paint and speckled with the light of stars. Her pregnant belly offers the ideal form for a spherical planet. This is one of a series of bodypaintings which make use of pregnant women to show the mystery of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTj1Cg_MFHC/">unborn child</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLlhcaepTvG/">Venus</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLlhTyMpEX8/">Neptune</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcB2m-pjLn/">Uranus</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZtCazJeom/">Mercury</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLWGlNwpXTY/">Saturn</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLWGdlCJhKU/">Pluto</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLTx7AaJjns/">Mars</a>, the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLTx0CMpfJT/">Sun</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRFnyHJFnX/">Earth’s moon</a>, and the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRFb7XJ1ad/">Earth</a> itself.#bodypainting #FillipoIoco #astronomy

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