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Draw your own planet, get creative and have a go!
This website is a fun experimental art website that allows you to have a go at drawing a planet and creating their own world. All planets drawn are then displayed in the gallery. Click below for instructions if you're not sure how everything works.
(Click to show instructions)
To draw:
Click and move the mouse to draw, click on the colour selector to choose a colour and choose between using the pen or brush. Enter a number between 1 & 99 to change the brush size. You can only draw in the black void where a planet should be.
To blur your image:
Enter a number between 1 & 9 to change the amount of blur applied to the image. If you don't want to blur your image set it to 0.
To start over:
Click on the eraser to delete everything so you can start again.
When finished:
Click on the submit button to add your planet to the gallery. Enter details about your planet such as its name, who has drawn it, your age, what life on the planet would be like for the inhabitants etc... Click the second submit button to confirm your submission, please be patient as it can take a while to save your planet. After your planet is saved you will be redirected to the gallery page.
Planet stats
Number of planets drawn so far: 338
Estimated number of planet inhabitants: 11102370000
Last planet
submitted
Submitted: 25th Jul 2010
Second to last
planet submitted
Submitted: 18th Jul 2010
Favourite
so far
Submitted: 8th Jul 2010
Space & planet news
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- Sun, 25 Jul 2010
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- 25,000 New Asteroids Found by NASA's Sky-Mapping Scope
- Fri, 16 Jul 2010
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- Renegade Planets: Weird Alien Worlds Challenge Theories
- Fri, 9 Jul 2010
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- Sun, 4 Jul 2010
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- Thu, 1 Jul 2010
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- Thu, 1 Jul 2010
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- The Way Forward
- Fri, 25 Jun 2010
- Alan talks with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) about the war in Afghanistan and the firing of Gen. McChrystal.
[0:00:27] ... crystals job it's about the plan the plan -- war but McChrystal planets Obama's plan -- not. ...
[0:02:56] ... done in Afghanistan it really isn't the country it's it's an empty space on the map it's the place that the English and the Russians never got to in the course of their great -- ...
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- Venus Is Hellish, But May Once Have Been Habitable
- Fri, 25 Jun 2010
- Venus, currently one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system, may once have had an ample supply of water – possibly even oceans – and been a potentially habitable place when it was young, a new study suggests. read more
- Poisonous Superstorm Found on Alien World
- Wed, 23 Jun 2010
- Across the Milky Way lies a violent world suffering through the first superstorm ever spotted on an alien planet. read more
- New Planets With Alien Life?
- Mon, 21 Jun 2010
- NASA craft detects hundreds of planets
[0:00:02] ... NASA's new Kepler spacecraft. Detecting hundreds of planets that they believe have the potential. To support alien life forms it is -- more than a 150000. Stars. And that's just in one small patch of the sky OK if the 700 plus candidates are actually planets. It could triple. The number of known planets in deep space this is so fascinating to me -- how is the energy -- Discover Magazine hey Corey how are you. So -- from ...
[0:01:05] ... then they know if it's in an orbit of something at the planets passing around it. And that gives -- some indication whether or not it's it's a small as a system. ...
[0:01:42] ... it from just 43 days of looking. They have a 706. You planets. Much faster than ever that there's information I sat right what we've never really had a telescope like this before so people ...
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