"Dancing With Fate" An exoplanet orbits dangerously close to its host star ensuring the planets ultimate annihilation. Contact the artist for permission to use this image. More work by West can be found at: http://www.lucyweststudios.com

Credit: Lucy West, space and science illustrator specializing in fine art space art; member of the International Association of Astronomical Artist, spokesperson and participant of Project Hermes, a Team Stellar/Google Lunar X Prize satellite project that will carry a collection of art mediums to the lunar surface in 2014).