Saturn’s Equinox In 2009 Taken By Cassini Spacecraft

Picture of the Day - January 26, 2019

Barren and battered worlds.

Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets

Pacman Nebula

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

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.

Triangulum Log - Blue Veil System (Post 1) - Introduction

I’ve gone deeper into the Triangulum Galaxy, traveling almost 20,000 light years around the perimeter of the galaxy and coming across this binary orange dwarf system that has 10 planets. The system is next to a blue/teal colored nebula, and lies within an outer arm of the Triangulum galaxy. You may notice there are more stars in the sky compared to the last 2 systems.

High Resolution Pics

Image 1 - Tranquility

Image 2 - Twin Suns

Image 3 - Lunar Sunrise

Image 4 - Calm Giant

RIP Stan Lee

Your legacy lives on in all of us.

Pictures of the day - November 26, 2018

A system of 6 planet’s orbiting a rare dim carbon star that has swelled into a red giant. All of the planet’s have been roasted by the star. The star has a very low surface temperature; therefore, all of the planets have a red-tint due to the lack of blue colored light.

The outer-most planets form a double planet system which consist of a Mars-like world orbited by an ocean world. The ocean world once being a frozen ice-covered world melted the by expanded sun.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-42-4-1201-1122

High Resolution Pictures:

Inner-most world

Massive giant covering the sky

Roasted Ice-giant and its moons

Another burnt world

Outer-most Double Planets

Hurricane

Triangulum Log - Post 4 - Vista System (Planet 2)

Here we come across the system’s second planet, a warm desert world. This rocky world orbits 0.41 AU from the sun and has a mass roughly one fifth that of Earth. It is a hot world covered in a thin Carbon Dioxide/ Sulfur Dioxide atmosphere with one tenth the atmospheric pressure of Earth. The planet is tidally locked to the sun and has an average surface temperature of 231° F on the day-side.

High Resolution Pics

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