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The Core of the Milky-way relative to the apparent size of the moon from Earth

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Picture of the Day 2 - January 3, 2019

A heavily cratered ice-world. This one is to make up for the missed picture of the day yesterday.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5613-489-8-16684327-414 5 to visit the planet in Space Engine

My first posts will be from systems located within the Triangulum Galaxy. The above 3 images were taken from Space Engine of the galaxy. The background galaxy in the images is Andromeda.

For those of you that are not familiar with the Triangulum Galaxy, it is the third largest member of the local group, sometimes considered a satellite galaxy of Andromeda. The galaxy is also known as M33, NGC 598 or the Pinwheel Galaxy. Approximately 40 billion stars reside within this spiral galaxy. It is believed that the galaxy lacks a central supermassive black hole and central halo.

Wikipedia link below.

Triangulum Galaxy

Picture of the day - January 11, 2019

Large storm swirls in the atmosphere of a gas giant.

Picture of the day - November 22, 2018

Crescent of a moon against the silhouette of a green gas giant.

O’Srius System - Post 3 (Stunning World)

Here we come across the smaller component of a double planetary system, being the 9 and 10th planets from the star. This planet is by far the most visually stunning world I have come across in the 6 months of playing space engine.

The world is roughly the same size as Earth, but only 0.58 times the mass. The surface is covered in liquid nitrogen oceans and nitrogen ice-caps. The planet has a surface temperature of 68 K or -337 °F. The atmosphere is composed of nitrogen and argon with a surface pressure of 0.095 atmospheres. The surface has a nitrogen cycle, much the same as Earth has a water cycle.

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Crescent

Picture 2 - Gibbous

Picture 3 -

Picture 4 - River Channels

Picture 5 - Varied terrain

Picture 6 - Polar Cap

Picture 7 - Nitrogen Shoreline

Picture of the day - February 15, 2019

Gas giant with vivid violet rings.

This image shows an artist’s impression of the 10 Hot Jupiter Exoplanets studied using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. From the upper left to the lower right corner, these planets are WASP-12b, WASP-6b, WASP-31b, WASP-39b, HD 189733b, HAT-P-12b, WASP-17b, WASP-19b, HAT-P-1b And HD 209458b.

Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA

For scientists watching the Red Planet from our orbiters, the past month has been a windfall. “Global” dust storms, where a runaway series of storms create a dust cloud so large they envelop the planet, only appear every six to eight years (that’s 3-4 Mars years). Scientists still don’t understand why or how exactly these storms form and evolve.

Read the full story HERE. 

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Artists Collage of a Gas Giant planet viewed from a Earth-like planet. Scientists estimate there are billions of planets like ours in the Milky Way Galaxy alone.

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