Ice Giant - Blog Posts
Neptune and Triton by James Webb telescope
Picture of the Day - February 11, 2019 (Late post)
Blue ice giant with blue rings.
Pictures of the Day - February 8, 2019 - (Late Post)
Weird red-tinted ice giant orbiting Bernard's Star viewed from the surface of several of it's asteroid moons.
Picture of the Day - January 19, 2019
An ice giant moon of a gas giant.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-7-11773-222 4.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine.
Picture of the Day - January 6, 2019
Ringed ice giant orbiting a star located near a beautiful red-colored nebula.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-8-657793-464 5 to visit the planet in Space Engine.
PS: I apologize for the inconsistency of pictures lately. Personal issues are making my regular post schedule something erratic.
Picture of the day - December 29, 2018
Binary Sunset over an ice giant.
Pictures of the day - December 28, 2018
From this point forward, all Space Engine posts on my pillowfort and my Tumblr page will be the same.
Here we come across a small green-colored ice giant with an active atmosphere. This planet orbits a binary pair of red dwarfs and has a small yet well structured ring system. Additionally, a system of 13 natural satellites orbit the planet, including two of which that are large enough to be rounded by their own gravity. Like Uranus, this planet also orbits on it's side.
Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-42-8-5915539-1541 2 if anyone wants to visit the planet.
Planet Stats Below:
Radius: 17,474.59 km (2.74 x Earth) Mass: 9.59 Earth Masses Orbital Distance: 0.57 AU Length of Year: 294.35 days Length of Day: 11 hours 47 minutes Gravity: 1.28 g Temperature: 85 K (-307 F) Atmosphere: 92.9% Hydrogen, 6.96% Helium, 0.14% Methane
High Resolution Pictures
Small green ice giant
Binary red suns
Through the rings
Small moon
Picture of the day - December 26, 2018
Insight A System - Ninth Planet (Insight A-IX)
Insight A-IX is the Insight A systems second largest and second most massive planet. It is an ice giant 17.40 times more massive than Earth, and has a radius of 3.28 Earth Radii. The planet is surrounded by a narrow yet well structured ring system, and a system of 6 small ellipsoidal satellites.
The planet orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 7.34 AU, completing 1 orbit every 18.35 Years. A day on the planet lasts just 9 hours and 6 minutes. The planet has a thick hydrogen/ helium atmosphere, and has an average atmospheric temperature of -279 F.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-IX
Small moon
Narrow Rings
Ring Closeup
Crescent
Pictures of the Day - December 25, 2018 (Merry Christmas)
Insight A System - Either Planet (Insight A-VIII)
Insight A-VIII is the eighth planet orbiting Insight A. It is an ice-giant with a mass 15.46 times that of Earth, and a diameter of 3.19 Earths. The planet has unusually pronounced cloud bands, and a wide-spaced ring system. It orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 4.01 AU, completing 1 orbit every 7.41 Years.
This planet has an active atmosphere with an average temperature of -213 F, and a day on the planet last 11 hours and 6 minus. 5 moons orbit the planet that are large enough to be rounded by their own gravity, including 4 larger than 2,000 kilometers across.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-VIII
Transiting Moon
Closeup
Asteroid Moon
View from outer-most large moon
Pictures of the day - December 19, 2018
Insight A System - Fourth Planet (Insight A-IV)
Insight A-IV is the fourth and largest planet orbiting Insight A. It is a large ice giant planet with a mass 41.38 times that of Earth and a diameter of 4.41 Earths. The planet has a hot atmosphere with a temperature of 297 F, which is dominated by hydrogen and helium. Additionally, a single large moon orbits the planet alongside 13 smaller asteroid-like satellites.
The planet orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 0.36 AU, completing an orbit once every 72.17 Earth Days. The planet is not tidally locked, but has a slow rotational rate of 288.70 Earth days, resulting in solar days that last 96.23 Earth days.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-IV
Stormy North Pole
Setting Sun
Crescents
View from the moon
Pictures of the day - December 16, 2018
Insight A System - 3rd Planet (Insight A-III)
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.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-III
Lunar View
Asteroid Moon
Blinding Sun and Inner Planets
Picture of the day - December 13, 2018
Two large moons cross the face of an ice giant.
Insight A System (Outer 4 Planets)
Here are the outer 4 planets orbiting Insight A. Each planet has a large ring systems.
Insight A-VI (0.65 Earth masses, Water World with life, 1.10 AU)
Insight A-VII (3.10 Earth masses, Cold Desert World, 1.97 AU)
Insight A-VIII (15.46 Earth Masses, Ice Giant, 4.01 AU)
Insight A-IX (17.40 Earth Masses, Ice Giant, 7.34 AU)
Space Engine System ID: RS-5581-42-6-76887-1116 A
Insight A System (Inner 5 Planets)
First post of the Insight A system. Insight A is the larger or primary of Insight’s 2 stars. The Insight System is a wide-spaced binary system consisting of a type G1V and type K5V star that orbit one another at an average distance of 192.3 AU once every 2,432 years. Insight A is 1.6 times the luminosity of our sun, and Insight B just 1/6th that of our sun.
Below are the first five worlds orbiting Insight A.
Insight A-I (0.56 Earth Masses - Rocky, 0.04 AU)
Insight A-II (2.66 Earth Masses, Rocky Super Earth, 0.07 AU)
Insight A-III (13.22 Earth Mass, Ice-Giant, 0.12 AU)
Insight A-IV (41.38 Earth Masses, Ice Giant, 0.36 AU)
Insight A-V (0.14 Earth Masses, Rocky with Liquid Water, 0.69 AU)
Picture of the day - December 11, 2018
Preview picture of the Insight A system. Rocky moon transits across the face of an ice giant.
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 - November 27, 2018
Tranquil brown ice-giant.
Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-42-7-615383-4492 8
Cold Green World
Picture of the day 2 - November 10, 2018
A cold ice-giant and one it’s moons passing in front of the disk of the Milky Way.
This image shows an artist’s impression of the 10 Hot Jupiter Exoplanets studied using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. From the upper left to the lower right corner, these planets are WASP-12b, WASP-6b, WASP-31b, WASP-39b, HD 189733b, HAT-P-12b, WASP-17b, WASP-19b, HAT-P-1b And HD 209458b.
Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA
Vibrant Rings
Picture of the Day - November 1, 2018
I’ve decided to move closer to home and am now exploring the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy. You’ll see in numerous pictures the Milky Way in the background covering almost a quarter of the sky in some locations
First picture from the new galaxy a ringed ice-giant with a colorful ring system.
My last post of planets in the Triangulum galaxy, a ringed world montage. And all these planets were found in one star system.
I have not decided which galaxy I am going to visit next, but I will left you know in the next day or so.
Space Engine System ID: RS 1229-118-6-214335-274
High Resolution Pictures
Ice Giant
Colorful Ice Giant
Cold Helium Gas Giant
Super-Earth
Ice World
Earth-like planet with life.
O’Sirus System - Post 4 (Rings)
Two planets in the O’Sirus System have rings, the 7th and 10th planets respectively.
The 7th planet is an ice-world with a thick icy crust floating on a sub-surface ocean. It is roughly 0.30 Earth-masses, has a radius 75% that of Earth and orbits 1.32 AU from the sun. The surface has a carbon dioxide atmosphere of approximately the same pressure as the atmosphere of Mars and surface temperatures of 133 K or -224 °F.
The 10th world is small ice giant 10.5 times more massive than Earth, has a radius 2.8 times larger than Earth and orbits at a distance of 6.02 AU. This world also has a pronounced ring system.
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - The 7th Planet
Picture 2 - Ring Closeup
Picture 3 - Another Closeup
Picture 4 - The 10th Planet
Picture 5 - Closeup
Picture 6- Ring Transit
Triangulum Log - Blue Veil System - Post 2 (Inner Giants)
The inner two planets of the system, a hot ice giant and warm gas giant.
The inner planet orbits 0.16 AU from the sun, has a mass 12 times that of Earth and an average atmospheric temperature of 813° F.
The second world is a Saturn-like gas giant with an impressive ring system. It orbits 0.64 AU from the sun, has a mass of 82 Earths, and a single large satellite orbiting it.
High Resolution Images
Image 1 - Inner-most Planet (Hot Ice Giant)
Image 2 - Two Suns in the sky
Image 3 - Stunning Rings
Image 4 - Giant in the sky
Image 5 - Lone Companion
Image 6 - Twin suns against the rings
Triangulum Log - Post 4 - The Vista System (First Planet)
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.
High Resolution Links Below
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Image 4