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Published: 2016-08-17 01:10:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2065; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 0
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June 2016Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood.
50x60 centimeters.
This is a planet which orbits a small, red, dim and very old sun. specifically, an M-type star.
The planet always gives the same face to its sun, so one of its hemispheres it's always in dark and the other it's under constant sunlight.
Between those extremes, there is a perpetual line of sunset/dawn, and that's where we are standing in this piece.
This place it's very far not only in space but in time. This perfect sunset started long before life on Earth appeared and now, 3 trillion years after our own Sun died, it's still going on and will do so for another trillion years.
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This could be Proxima Centauri (aka Gliese 551); it's a spectral M-type star and may be orbited by a large planet. But those nasty flare events would make the planet uninhabitable at least by our biological standards.
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I have been thinking about Proxima Centauri as a possible location for this pieces, indeed. It would be nice to have that planet "close" to home.Β
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A variation on the "fence" adage: Great distances make good neighbors.Β
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If our moon was replaced with Venus then night time would be at least as bright as during our normal sunset. The sun is down but we get sunset brightess 12h a day.
I wonder if having neptune as moon would result in noticeable blue light since it's so blue due to methane absorbing red.
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The latter case would be lovely.Β
That's why I like so much the idea of Earth as seen from the terraformed Moon, or vice-versa.Β
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Neat!Β I've always been intrigued about planets in locked rotation.Β If this star has lasted 3 trillion years,Β it must be one of the smaller M-type stars!Β After that much time, I don't think any other stars wouldΒ still be in view.Β
If the star has other planets, this planet could have an elliptical orbit, so the star could move a little, possibly rising and setting just barely.Β Β
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Since this star it's so small and he protoplanetary nebula wasn't very massive, it doesn't have any other planets.
It has some Vesta-like planetoids and a very distant cloud comet, but that's all.
All of the stars in view are other M-types and white dwarves. Also, this star is close to the core of its galaxy, hence the unusually dense star population. And most important of all: I think a very starry sky looks pretty.
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Strange feelings. It's looks like quite place and very lonely.
I'd like to get there.
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It's very lonely. And there's no sound but the wind. And nothing moves except the coulds.
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That star's age shows. You managed to capture the feeling of ancientness in this and I love it.Β
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Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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