Picture Of The Day - December 10, 2018

Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets

Picture of the day - February 1, 2019 - (Very late post)

Heavily cratered Mars-like planet.

Picture of the day - November 15, 2018

Large gas giant orbiting a pair of binary suns within a large nebula.

Jupiter

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Picture of the day 2 - November 25, 2018

More moons. A small and large moon orbiting a ringed gas-giant. The bright star transited by the rings is a nearby bright giant, but not part of this planet’s star system.

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Picture of the day - February 15, 2019

Gas giant with vivid violet rings.

Pictures of the Day - December 15, 2018

Insight A System - Second Planet (Insight A-II)

Insight A-II is the second planet orbiting Insight A. It is a Venus-like planet shrouded in a thick carbon dioxide and water vapor atmosphere 716 times thicker than Earth’s. The surface temperature averages 1,980 F, and most of the surface is covered in molten rock.

The planet orbits just 0.07 AU from the sun, completing an orbit once every 6.72 Earth days. Insight A-II is a super-earth with a mass 2.66 times that of Earth and a radius of 1.15 Earths.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight A-II

Comet-like planet

The Atmosphere

The Surface