BINARY STAR SYSTEM SUNSET

More than half the stars you see in the night sky are not just solitary points of light but binary or multiple star systems. These stars orbit each other around a common center of gravity much as we orbit the Sun and the Moon orbits the Earth. This piece depicts a binary star system setting within a lake channel of a distant orbiting planet. Featured in the ARTIST'S UNIVERSE traveling space art exhibition and the PLANETARY REPORT magazine of the PLANETARY SOCIETY. Edwin Faughn © 2004