Insight A System - Fourth Planet (Insight A-IV)

Picture of the Day - February 5, 2019 - (Very late post)

I've decided to travel back home in Space Engine.

Earth and the Moon.

The active atmosphere of a Venus-like planet, baking under its sun.

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)

Oculus System - Post 4 (Beautiful Outer Giant)

Here we come across the outer-most planet, a large gas-giant with a violet tint. This giant world has more than 5 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits the sun at an average distance of 7.15 AU. The planet has a beautiful ring system, and is surrounded by a system of 10 spherical satellites.

High Resolution Pics

Picture 1 - Outer-most gas giant - Light Enhanced

Picture 2 - Closeup

Picture 3 - Rising Giant

Picture 4 - Another moon shoot

Picture 5 - Rings over the sly

Picture 6 - Ring Closeup

What’s the biggest misconception people have about space or astronomy in general?

I’m not sure which is the biggest mistake, but I believe that one of them is the colors that are imposed on the images of planets, nebulae and other bodies of space. Many images are not real colors, many of them are fake colors. False colors are used to differentiate, some particular type of material, temperature, wavelength, chemical or mineral variations, and other factors.

Mercury with colors in visible light

Color-enhanced, this image represents chemical and mineral variations across the planet: tan areas are lava-formed plains, and blue regions show material that reflects little light.

This image shows two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile . The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3.

Some illustrations of space can also deceive or confuse, like images of exoplanets, where in fact we do not know for sure what it would be, since we can not have such clear images to the point where we can see them closely, and other things like representation of the curvature of space time, which shows a curvature in 2D, would actually be in 3D, but this is a little harder to visualize.

Curvature of the space-time fabric in 2D

Curvature of the space-time fabric in 3D

An annotated view of the Beta Pictoris system.

Artist’s impression of Beta Pictoris b. The debris disk around the parent star can be seen.

You can learn more about it by clicking here!

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.

Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets

First Post.

A low sun on a Mars-like planet overlooking a large canyon.

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