The Birth of a Planet is a piece of digital artwork by Philip Cruden which was uploaded on August 14th, 2017.
The Birth of a Planet
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... more
Title
The Birth of a Planet
Artist
Philip Cruden
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
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 through gravity they attract even more particles. These particles contract under gravity creating Planetesimals. The planetesimals collide with one another forming a new 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 and is possibly what our own planet Mercury may have looked like in its last stages of formation.
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August 14th, 2017
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