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The image is painted in Photoshop. In the beginning I did no know how to make it and I rendered an image in Terragen. This did not do it at all in so I overpainted it. :)
95% of the image are painted with brushes(the sun with the help of a "differencial clouds-filter" and a warp-filter) and 5% are remnants of Terragen which I used as textures.

The is the Terragen-Image:

Terragen-render

For the moon in the sky I used a Terragen-Texture es well.

What you see here is a planet surrounding an active M-Star(cooler than the sun) in a close orbit. At least as far as I imagine it to look like :)
Because of the heat of the sun the surface melts and gets solid again.



Many thanks to the APOD-Team for featuring my Artwork!
Today(may 21. 2008) this image became Astronomy picture of the day!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080521.html

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:iconclaymore32:
That is really really beautiful :) The solar flare arcing out really gives it a very dynamic feel; and the melting surface makes it look like the planet is bowing down and paying homage to the sun :D. I love it!!
:iconiosep:
cool, i made a sun type thing recently. i tried a proper solar flare but couldn't get it right, look at that mother on yours! haha i don't think that moon can take another hit!
:iconchaos-syndrome:
I like the way the rocks look like plants here... not a pleasant planet to spend time on I imagine. On the other hand, worlds like this are likely to be the first truly Earth-size planets we find in other solar systems.
:icondanielhovdahl:
Oh Deja-vu! I just saw the movie Reign of Fire last week! xD
Beautiful image though.
:icongate-to-nowhere:
oh, I did not know there was a movie with that title :D I hope it has nothing to do with planets around m-stars :D
:icondanielhovdahl:
Wow, that is kinda cool. Because that movie is about a huge dragon that burns the planet up. So you're image kinda fits!
:icongucken:
:wow: wundervoll :clap:

Habs auch gleich in meinem neuesten Journal gefeatured [link]

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:icongate-to-nowhere:
lol, :D and the dragon in this case is the planet's sun :)
:iconattani:
Parts of the planet are like an ocean. I can sense movement. Beautiful image. Quite different from the terragen image.

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:iconmyounis:
oh my god, its just breath taking :D , great job, seems i'll be learning a lot from you :D

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