Pictures Of The Day - November 13, 2018

Picture of the Day - February 16, 2019 (Late post)

An eclipse of one sun.

Sagittarius Triplet

R136a1 System

A visit to a more familiar system in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy. The program depicts a large gas orbiting the star at a distance of 738.59 AU along with several large moons.

R136a1 is believed to be the most massive known star with a mass 315 times that of our sun. The star shines with a luminosity of 8.7 million suns. The gas giant even at its extreme orbital distance of 738.59 AU, still receives more solar radiation than Earth.

High Resolution Images

Bright Blue Sun

Inner Dwarf Planet from a moon

Outer moon.

Approaching eclipse

Double moons

Lonely Moon

Picture of the Day - October 19, 2018

Small moon passing in front of a large Super-Earth type planet.

Oculus System - Post 3 (Cratered Wasteland)

The system’s third planet is a nearly airless Mars-sized world, heavily cratered world. The planet orbits 1.19 AU from the sun, has a mass of just 8.6% that of Earth and roughly half of Earth’s diameter. A tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere clings to the surface with a surface press of just 1/100,000th that of Earth. Surface temperatures can reach the boiling point of water during the day, and fall nearly -300 °F at night.

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Mercury-like planet

Picture 2 - Two small satellites

Picture 3 - A view from a moon

Picture 4 - Setting Sun.

Picture 5 - Broken Crater

Picture 6 - From just 10 km above the surface.

Picture 7 - The Surface

Pictures of the day 2 - February 1, 2019 - (very late post)

I decided to try something different this time. I found this large moon orbiting beautiful a blue gas giant and decided to take pictures of the sky overlooking a mountain at different times in the moon's orbit. The only time the moon ever gets dark is during an eclipse, otherwise the reflected light from the gas giant illuminates the surface in a bluish tinted light at night.

Space Engine System ID: RS 0-5-14693-319-17241-6-194958-8 3.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine.

Dark Cloud

Picture of the Day - October 31, 2018

A dark Nebula hangs over the sky of an airless moon.

Note: There will be one last set of pics posted for the Triangulum Galaxy this evening before I visit another galaxy to begin exploring.

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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 - 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 30, 2018

Globular cluster. Almost 10,000 stars packed into a sphere just 100 light years across.