Picture of the day 2 - November 20, 2018
Messier 59. - The next galaxy I have selected to explore in space engine. M59 is an elliptical galaxy location about 54 million light years from the Milky Way.
Pictures of the day - December 22, 2018
Insight A-Vi is an Earth-like water-world with a surface completely covered in oceans. The planet has a mass of 0.65 Earths and a diameter 0.97 times that of our planet. An extensive ring system surrounds the planet and the oceans contain simple signed-celled life.
The planet orbits at an average distance of 1.10 AU and a day on the surface lasts 18 hours and 31 minutes. Compared to the inner-worlds, Insight A-VI is rather cold with an average global temperature of 41 F. Still the oceans absorb enough heat that there are no ice caps at the poles, since ocean currents keep the water from freezing.
Note the inner two planets have comet like appearance from their atmospheres being strip away by the sun.
Insight A-VI
Three small moons
Rings
The sun and inner planets
Sunset
Planet rise
Pictures of the day - December 16, 2018
Insight A-III is the third planet orbiting Insight A. It is a hot Ice-giant orbiting it’s sun at an average distance of 0.12 AU. The planet’s atmosphere has a temperature of 960 F and it’s atmosphere lacks any type of define cloud decks. This is a helium ice giant, meaning that it has lost all of it’s hydrogen and the atmosphere is dominated by helium instead. As a result, the planet has a monochromatic color.
Insight A-III has a mass of 13.22 Earths, and a diameter of 4.03 times that of Earth. The planet is tidally locked to it’s sun and orbits the sun once every 14.76 Earth days.
Insight A-III
Lunar View
Asteroid Moon
Blinding Sun and Inner Planets
Picture of the day - November 12, 2018
Inner planets orbiting close to the sun are losing their atmosphere’s at a rapid rate generating a large gas cloud in this system. The gas is thick enough to glow from the illumination of the sun, shrouding the star from the view of the outer planets.
It is likely that other solar systems with hot gas and ice giants have an appearance similar when viewed from orbiting distant planets. The small cloud visible to the left is the Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxy.
Top image shows the Andromeda Galaxy rising above the inner-most dwarf planet. From here, the great spiral galaxy covers over 11 degrees of the sky or almost 22 times larger than a full moon on Earth.
Other three images show the inner-most planet, a large ice giant 50 times the mass of Earth orbiting 0.30 AU from the sun.
In the last shot, each of the small stars in the background are actually large bright asteroids in the systems asteroid belt.
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I have decided to try a different direction with this blog and instead of posting a whole bunch of pics of single systems, I am going to start posting a pic of a new world every day. That way its frees me to to explore more systems and find really stunning worlds.
Picture of the day - November 16, 2018
An Earth-Moon analog.
Pictures of the Day - February 12, 2019 (Late Post)
Stormy atmosphere of a gas giant. The planet orbits a binary pair of stars consisting of a white F-Type star and a bright blue B-type star
Evening of the Cosmos. Widescreen Wallpapers 1440 x 900.
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