Picture Of The Day 2 - January 23, 2019

Picture of the day - November 19, 2018

The sun begins to set behind a large moon of a gas giant that has a thick atmosphere. Another large satellite is visible in the background.

Purple Skies

Picture of the Day - November 4, 2018

The surface of a large moon orbiting a gas giant that has an unusual purple-tinted atmosphere. The moon has diatomic sulfur in the upper atmosphere producing the purple hue.

Pictures of the day - November 13, 2018

Tempus System - First Round of Pictures

I’ve decided to showcase another system, and here are the pics of a system in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy I am calling the Tempus System

Space Engine System ID: RS-8475-7-6-4-195

High Resolution Pictures

Mars-Like World

Crescent

Scorched Surface

Cold battered desert moon

Orbital Closeup

Dim suns

Distant giant

Another ring shot

Green Desert

Picture of the Day - November 2, 2018

Weird green desert-world rich in life, but lacking any bodies of surface liquids. Planet has a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere, average surface temperature of 73°F on the day side and is tidally locked to the sun.

Triangulum Log - Post 1 - The Outskirts.

My first adventure brings us to this Yellow Super Giant and companion black hole. The system is young and filled with many gas giants that still glow with the heat of their formation.

All of the planets orbit far from the star, the nearest having a orbital radius of 10.57 AU. Numerous planets are also double planets including a double Jupiter as shown above.

More pics of this system and my thoughts on if this system could actually exist in the real universe to come.

Triangulum Log - Post 2 - The Outskirts

More pics of the system. Notice the lack of stars in the background. The system being a runaway star, is quickly escaping the galaxy. The nearest stars are more than 1,000 light years away. Interesting enough in this system, while the major planets orbit the system’s common center of mass, a dense asteroid belt and 3 dwarf planets directly orbit the system’s black hole. The dwarf planets and asteroids likely formed out of some of the remaining debris from the supernova that created the black hole.

The last two pics are a massive red moon orbiting the systems 7th planet. The moon has a very Mars-like feel to it.

Triangulum Log - Post 5 - Vista System (Planet 3)

Our journey of the Vista System now takes us to the third and largest planet in the system. This gas giant has 1.14 times the mass of Jupiter and a mean radius of 73,934 kilometers. It is much warmer than Jupiter at -41° F versus Jupiter’s -163° F, and as a result has extremely active weather patterns and a stormy atmosphere. Cloud decks are composed primarily of water-ice crystals.

The planet orbits 0.88 astronomical units from the sun, has an extensive ring system composed of silicate-rich materials, and a single large satellite. The planet’s satellite has a radius of 1,360.71 kilometers and a mass roughly 70% that of our moon. It has an average density of 4.82 g/cm³, indicating a large metal-rich core region.

Links to High Resolution Pics

Image 1 - A Giant and her rings.

Image 2 - Beautiful faint ring system.

Image 3 - Stormy Skies

Image 4 - Ring Shepard.

Image 5 - Andromeda Photobombs the rings. (High Exposure Shot)

Image 6 -Battered moon.

Image 7 - David and Goliath

Image 8 - High and Seek

Image 9 - Parting Ways

Stormy Night

Picture of the Day - October 20, 2018

Cyclonic storm system dimly lit by a distant sun. Instead of being made of water, this storm and its clouds are made up of dust particles. The planet is a Mars-Like world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere and covered in red-colored iron oxide dust

 Cold blue gas giant and one of it's asteroid moons.

Picture of the day - December 7, 2018

Insight B-VI viewed from the surface of its 4th moon.