Picture Of The Day - January 28, 2019

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.

Pictures of the day - February 10, 2019 (Late post).

Montage of lunar skies.

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

An eclipse of one sun.

Cold Blue World

Picture of the Day 2 - October 19, 2019

Large hazy blue world rising about an asteroid moon.

Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG4 glows menacingly in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Although it looks huge and bright in this image it is actually a faint nebula and not easy to observe. The exact nature of CG4 remains a mystery.

Credit: ESO

Gas giant with violet-colored clouds and rings.

Triangulum Log - Post 3 - The Vista System

We’ve moved away from the last system and traveled nearly 13,000 light years to another system on the edge of Triangulum.

Here we come across a system which I have called the Vista system, due to some of the stunning views of gas giants and their moons.

This system is configured rather unusually, in that the asteroid belt forms the inner-most part of the system, orbiting close to the star with a single dwarf planet orbiting within. Above are pics of the inner-most dwarf planet.

This moon-sized world orbits 0.13 AU from the sun, with a scorching surface temperature of 760°.

More pics of worlds in this system to come.

Links to high resolution pics above.

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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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Picture of the day - February 6, 2019 - (Very late post)

Ringed ocean world with greenish-gray colored oceans. The Carina Nebula fills the sky in the background.

Pluto-Like Double World

Picture of the Day - October 25, 2018

Two frozen worlds very almost identical in their size ratio to one another as the Pluto-Charon double dwarf planet system.