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Planet Forming
The summer heat is still here in AZ so the next best thing to imaging for me is painting. I painted this piece in PS CS6.
There was a time millions of years ago the our solar system was nothing more than a ring of dust rotating around our newly formed sun. After a star comes into being the remaining gas and dust forms into a flattened disk known as a Protoplanetary Disk. Inside the swirling rotating debris of the protoplanetary disk rocky particles begin to collide forming larger masses and gravity then starts to attract even more particles. These particles start to contract under gravity creating Planetesimals. The planetesimals under gravity then start to collide with one and other forming a planet. This painting is a planet in its final stages of formation with the large planet still attracting its neighboring planetesimals, In the end gravity wins. This planet is very close to its host star. This is possibly what our own planet Mercury may have looked like in its last stages of formation.
www.billionplanetsquest.com
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Comment by Philip A Cruden on September 5, 2012 at 1:48pm
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Hey Conor, I sent you a friend request. I have tried to get the image cut into thr ratio and pixel size but there is not enough width which is making the height to thin. How many screen are you going over? I am assuming 3. Lets chat and I will see what else I can come up with.
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Thanks Chris, I am clad you like my site, I really can't wait to get out imaging again, thanks for the thumbs up on YouTube.
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Comment by Conor on September 3, 2012 at 2:07pm
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These look great man. I'd love something like this for a widescreen wallpaper.
(5760x1080 hint hint)
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Hey Chris, thanks man, much appreciated.
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Thanks Trevor, I really appriciate your compliments on my work. I have a new video on my site called "A Vsion of Deep Space" featuring all my cosmos paintings. www.billionplanetsquest.com it is at the top of my home page.
I hope the heat and humidity has finally passed for you up there in the homeland. All the best, Phil
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Comment by Trevor Jones on August 26, 2012 at 5:28pm
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Philip you are very talented. I enjoy your artwork very much! I love the blue/purple nebulosity areas in the background of this one!
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