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And as a companion to that last map... have another map about the star system where Thera is.Related content
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I really like the style of this and mentioned it in my deviation, I found this inspirational for the image I wanted to convey: [link]
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Being outside the planets' orbits, I would just call your asteroid belt a scattered disk instead. And I hope your orbits aren't to scale either because otherwise it would make no sense for your asteroid belt to exist so close to Phoenix's orbit. Much like Jupiter, Phoenix would have the tendancy to either chuck the asteroids inward (where innocent inner planets can run over them and wipe out all dinosaurs, oh noes!) or scatter them outwards to make up the (drum roll please) scattered disk.
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No, nothing is to scale even the orbits. It's just to show the planets that exist in the system.
Phoenix is quite large, though. I imagine it being bigger then Jupiter so I'm well aware that it's gravity is a total bitch. I even thought about playing around with some events in the system being caused by it's gravitational pull.
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In that case I can't imaging Phoenix's gravity NOT influencing events. The current theory is that Jupiter is about as large as a gas giant can get without additional mass causing it to shrink. This shrinkage would only stop once Jupiter was 50 times heavier and ignition occured. Theoretically to be bigger than Jupiter, Phoenix would have to be a white dwarf. ... In this universe. Other universes of course don't have to play by the same rules. I'm not even saying that just to make excuses for you: even the episode of Nova that was on last night kept hammering that point.
I was going to say brown dwarf but then I decided to fact check first and it turns out brown dwarves are all roughly the same radii as Jupiter, with only 10-15% difference.
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LOL... not THAT much bigger then Jupiter. Maybe add 5-10% onto Jupiter's size and that would be Phoenix.
I've been playing around with jellyfish type creatures that live in the gas clouds of Phoenix... but Steven Hawking beat me to it. ARGH!
And yes, the internet seems to be very craptacular when it comes to research about Astronomy. Either that or I just really suck at looking things up online.
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If you stayed away from everything that someone else thought of first, you would have a blank universe. Hawking definitely wasn't the only one who thought of floating jellyfish as I remember back in midschool my Horizons teacher had a book that speculated about life on the other planets of the Solar System. (I probably would have forgotten the book a long time ago had the boys in Horizons not compared me with the ugly fat toad-things of Venus which ate metal and propelled themselve into the air by farting.) The gas giants were all variations of jellyfish with each planet out sporting a version adapted to progressively colder winds.
There are many many times when I had an absolutely brilliant idea only to see you post the exact same thing two or three days later. You wouldn't propose I reject my ideas just because you had them first, would ya? *makes adorable eyes at you*
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Argh! I hate how wishy washy the internet can get on space info! I just found a chart which includes the reltive sizes of several stars and Jupiter. Brown dwarves can be notacibly bigger than Jupiter.
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Thera is a bit close to the sun, so in order for it to have good temperatures, the sun's power would have to be low, like a young star system. Jocayi would have temperate climates, and Dugan looks like it would be at the outer part of the Goldilocks Zone. Just saying that you have at least 2 planets that are in the right place for habitable life, with a possible third.
Thera could also have a temperate climate with a normal sun, but right now I'm unable to think of specifics aside from something unique to that planet, or just rare for any planet to have. Coming up with star systems is a good way to bring in consistency when it comes to stories that deal with faster than light travel to other world in other solar systems. Now all we need is..... something more? I just woke up, so my brain is half asleep, and the other half is dead, and then there's another half that just doesn't exist.
The nebula as part of the background gives a nice other worldly feel to it, which comes in handy. All in all, I'd give this art a very good grade, like an A+ or something. Not that good when it comes to looking at art, but I know good art when I see it, and you've shown a lot of talent.
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I presume the planets and the sun are not to scale and that if they were drawn to scale, they'd be too small to see.
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I would assume that too, but then again a scientist doesn't assume.
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Why do Thera and Saryt both have moons called Mynaxyda?
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Ah, apparently my copy/paste didn't work correctly.
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More star system maps... TASTY. Where did you get the background? Is the system near a greenish nebula? That would be COOL.
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As always, I make the backgrounds myself with photoshop. Though I do use nebula brushes with my star maps since I don't ever plan on spending a ton of time with them. The greenish-blue nebula is there... but it's not nearly as bright or as huge. I just made it that way to make it look prettier.
Nothing is really to scale here, obviously.
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I figured it's not to scale, but it does make for a really nice looking backdrop.
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