'STELLAR RELICS'

STELLAR RELICS" by Michael C. Turner
© 2008/2009 ~ Galactic Visions Space Art
Acrylic on stretched canvas using traditional bristle brush techniques ~ 60"X60"

A galactic beacon, a quasar, illuminates a region of interstellar space where the relics of a captured solar system are gradually pulled through space toward a dark gravitational entity, a black hole. A pulsar, a rapidly rotating super dense star, spins erratically creating multiple beams of light to strobe form its surface. Much of the terrestrial class planets have long ago broken up as their orbits became erratic due to the immense gravitational field of the black hole. Space-faring civilizations shall encounter many bizarre stellar relics such as this and even more, as yet undiscovered cosmic phenomenon are encountered . . .
(Another of my archaeoastronomy paintings . . . MCT)

May All Your Visions Be Galactic Visions ~ Michael C. Turner