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Description
July 2015
50x60 centimeters
Acrylic over hand-polished gesso over MDF wood.

Some trillions of years ago this planet used to orbit a bright Sun-like star. That star eventually got red and swollen, exploded and then became a white dwarf orbited by the burnt remains of its worlds.
This one in particular used to be Earth-like, but the explosion blasted away its atmosphere, oceans, crust and upper mantle. After a long time cooled again, and long after that it got de-orbited of its parent star due to some close encounters with other stars (which happened more or less every trillion years)
It wandered alone in the interstellar darkness during a long time. A VERY long time, enough for all the bright blue, yellow and orange stars to use up their fuel and go extinct.
By the time it was captured by the gravitational field of a star, every sun in the Universe was a dim and red M-type, a brown dwarf or a fading white dwarf.
This planet got in orbit around an M-type star which it's located on the outskirts of a cluster. During its long journey towards the small red sun, it captured a pair of comets from its Oort cloud, which eventually fell to the surface, creating a new atmosphere and a new hydrosphere.
It also captured some small planetoids which became its permanent moons.

The atmosphere is very thin and the water it's mostly in the form of shallow puddles and lakes. Life never appeared here and never will since there is no geological nor atmospheric activity to power and nurture a primordial soup. It will be forever (Well, actually for about 40 trillion years) a quiet and still place of just rocks, water, sand and red sunlight.

Description
July 2015
50x60 centimeters
Acrylic over hand-polished gesso over MDF wood.

Some trillions of years ago this planet used to orbit a bright Sun-like star. That star eventually got red and swollen, exploded and then became a white dwarf orbited by the burnt remains of its worlds.
This one in particular used to be Earth-like, but the explosion blasted away its atmosphere, oceans, crust and upper mantle. After a long time cooled again, and long after that it got de-orbited of its parent star due to some close encounters with other stars (which happened more or less every trillion years)
It wandered alone in the interstellar darkness during a long time. A VERY long time, enough for all the bright blue, yellow and orange stars to use up their fuel and go extinct.
By the time it was captured by the gravitational field of a star, every sun in the Universe was a dim and red M-type, a brown dwarf or a fading white dwarf.
This planet got in orbit around an M-type star which it's located on the outskirts of a cluster. During its long journey towards the small red sun, it captured a pair of comets from its Oort cloud, which eventually fell to the surface, creating a new atmosphere and a new hydrosphere.
It also captured some small planetoids which became its permanent moons.

The atmosphere is very thin and the water it's mostly in the form of shallow puddles and lakes. Life never appeared here and never will since there is no geological nor atmospheric activity to power and nurture a primordial soup. It will be forever (Well, actually for about 40 trillion years) a quiet and still place of just rocks, water, sand and red sunlight.