Aurora Planet is a piece of digital artwork by Philip Cruden which was uploaded on August 14th, 2017.
Aurora Planet
Here on Earth the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis aka the Northern Lights and the Southern Lights are a common natural light display in the... more
Title
Aurora Planet
Artist
Philip Cruden
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
Here on Earth the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis aka the "Northern Lights" and the "Southern Lights" are a common natural light display in the night sky because the Earth has an active inner core that generates a protective magnetic field around us. Aurora are created by the collisions of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high atmosphere.
Aurora occur on other planets also, like Jupiter and Saturn. In short any planet with a magnetic field can have Aurora. On Earth the magnetic field protects us from the Sun's radiation. Think of it like our invisible protective shield which only becomes visible when we are hit by sun flares and solar wind.
In this painting I have created a Gas Giant planet which has a large active core and a very active host star causing it to be bathed in aurora all the time.
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August 14th, 2017
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