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Pictures of the day - January 1, 2019

A set of skylines from a large moon of a gas giant.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-7-7-1842438-367 A5.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine

Uranus Banned from Tumblr???

That’s right folks. Under the new Tumblr guidelines all forms of pornography are now banned from this site. That includes the solar system’s butthole. From this point forward I am not going to be able to post any pictures of the 7th planet from the sun, because the planet is not considered child safe.

When this shocking development became known, we asked other members of the solar system what they thought about the new ban.

Obviously the Lunar community was the first to respond, feeling they would be targeted next. The moon had this to say.

Luna: “Uranus banned? They better not ban me next or I am going to moon the shit about them.”

After Luna’s statement, the president of the lunar community (Ganymede) made the following statement. “The Lunar Community does not condone any acts of obscenity. I apologize for Luna’s statement, she was been in rehab lately for her moon rock addiction. She might be a little temperamental about this new ban.”

While most of the solar system community condemned Tumblr for its new ban, interesting enough there was one supporter of the ban.

Pluto of the dwarf planet community recently spoke in support of the ban. When asked why he supported the ban, Pluto has this to say.

Pluto: While everyone is busy dealing with this Tumblr banning Uranus fiasco, I can now spend my time focusing on getting my revenge against the other planets for booting me out of the planet club, and they will be too busy to even notice it. “Evil Laugh”

More news will be posted on this story as it becomes available.

Next up: Tumblr banning bunny butts? Rabbits in revolt!

Pictures of the Day - November 30, 2018

The inner-most planet of the Insight B System. (Insight B-I)

This scorched desert world orbits just 9,000,000 kilometers from it’s sun and is tidally locked to the star. The planet is 1.1 times Earth’s mass, but has a very large metallic core; therefore, is only 89% of Earth’s diameter.

The planet is covered in a thick sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of 32 atmospheres. The surface has a temperature of 818 °F. A massive cyclone constantly rages on the day side with wind speeds of up to 1,000 mph in the upper atmosphere.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-42-6-76887-1116 B1.

High Resolution Pictures

Raging Storm

Crescent

Approaching the day

Blistering Heat

The twilight zone

Insight System - Post 1

First post of the Insight System.

The Insight system (named after the newest Mars lander) is a wide-spaced binary system consisting of a yellow G1V type star (Insight A) and a dimmer orange K5V type star (Insight B), that orbit each other in an elliptical orbit at an average distance of 192.3 AU. Both stars complete 1 orbit around each other every 2,432 years.

Insight A is 1.6 times brighter than our sun, and Insight B is only 1/6th the brightness of our sun.

Both stars have their own solar systems.

My first post if of the 6 planets orbiting the dimmer star Insight B.

First Planet Insight B-I (1.1 Earth masses)

Second Planet Insight B-II (5.3 Earth Masses)

Third Planet Insight B-III (11.7 Jupiter Masses)

Fourth Planet Insight B-IV (0.20 Jupiter Masses)

Fifth Planet Insight B-V (0.27 Earth masses)

Outer-most planet Insight B-VI (1.42 Jupiter Masses)

More pictures to come soon.

Picture of the day 2 - December 21, 2018

Dwarf planet it’s moon. Part of the Insight A System.

Rains on Different Worlds

Saturn, rings and moons

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

Picture of the day - January 3, 2019

Desert-like moon orbiting a large gas giant. This is the same world as the skylines from the previous post.