Busy & Hazy Sky

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)

Pictures of the day - January 16, 2019

Comets

Gas giant with violet-colored clouds and rings.

Picture of the day - November 22, 2018

Crescent of a moon against the silhouette of a green gas giant.

We really do have some weird moons in our solar system!

Picture of the Day - January 26, 2019

Barren and battered worlds.

Pacman Nebula

Stylised map of all known nearby exoplanets

via reddit

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.

Picture of the day 2 - November 14, 2018

An earth-like moon orbiting a gas giant. This moon has purple-colored vegetation and extremely large ice caps.

Space Engine System ID: RSC 8475-0-4-2269-22 A4