So it seems that because technology makes it easier to stay in touch while keeping distance, more and more people find themselves feeling distant and never touching.
The painting emphasizes the drama of altitude and distance by depicting the boldly varied textures of near and distant mountains, and of a stormy sky above the still waters below.
For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.
But close orbits would broadly be too hot - the hunt seeks roughly Earth-sized planets orbiting at a sufficient distance that water, if it is there, can exist in liquid form - and not so distant that it freezes.