Saturn, Rings And Moons

Picture of the day 2 - November 23, 2018

Two moons transit in front of a large Titan-Like world with methane oceans.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-14-7-1797564-12533 6

Pictures of the day - December 24, 2018

Insight A System - Seventh Planet (Insight A-VII)

Insight A-VII is a cold super-Earth and largest rocky planet orbiting Insight A. The planet has a mass of 3.10 Earths, and a diameter 53% larger than Earth. It orbit’s its sun at an average distance of 1.97 AU, completing an orbit once every 2.55 years. A day lasts only 13 hours and 20 minutes.

The surface is covered in a carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of 1.73 atmospheres, and an average surface temperature of -105 F. The atmosphere is extremely cloudy with clouds of water-ice and dry ice. An extensive system of rings orbit’s the planet, and a large moon.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight A-VII

Closeup

Duality

The Atmosphere

The Surface

An awesome preview of Space Engine 0.999. No release date yet, but it likely will be soon, hopefully by the end of the year.

In honor of NASA’s successful landing of the InSight Lander, here are a couple of Space Engine pictures of Mars centered on the Elysium Planitia.

Had to take a second closer picture since Phobos got in the way of the first picture.

High Resolution Pictures

Picture 1

Picture 2

Jupiter

Picture of the day 3 - November 19, 2018

Dim red sun faintly illuminates a giant planet and it’s ring in a dull red light.

Picture of the day - November 22, 2018

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

First pictures from the M59 galaxy. Here I come across a 7 planet system orbiting an orange giant. All the planets in this system are experiencing the effects of the expanding sun, and orbit relatively close to the sun. The outer-most ice giant orbits just 3.62 AU from the sun.

Space Engine System ID: RS-5581-21-3-270-585

I just unfortunately found out that Tumblr does not allow posts with links in them to show up on searches. This is very problematic for me since I like posting 4K resolution pics on here. Anyone have any suggestions on how to keep Tumblr from reducing image sizes so I do not have to add links to my posts?

High Resolution Pics

Partially molten moon

Galaxy NGC 4429 photo bombs this moon shot.

Molten world

Rising giant

Burnt desert

Solar Atmosphere