Dying Star_V3

This is an updated image of one of my digital paintings.

When a star's life is coming to an end there are a number of ways in which it can die, and more than one stage to that death. Our own sun, is destined in its first stage of death to become a Red Giant before its final distruction. Some stars cast their outer layers into space leaving a hot dense core to cool over eons. But some other types of stars die in one of the universe's most massive specticles there is, a Supernova. A Supernova can shine as brightly as an entire galaxy of billions of "nomal" stars. In some cases the star is completely destroyed by the explosion while others leave behind either a super dense Neutron Star or a Black Hole. No matter how a star dies its death is one of incredible explosive energy and absolute mass distruction for any neighboring planets, moons, comets asteroids and of course any life.



In this painting I wanted to capture the instant that the star goes Supernova - that moment when everything within the star's sphere of influence hangs in the balance, waiting to feel the fury of the dying star's final moments.
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