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Dry Desert World

2nd Picture of the Day - October 15, 2018

A Mars-Like desert world covered in dunes of iron oxide dust. A small satellite crosses the face of the planet.

Earth-Like World

Picture of the Day 2 - October 16, 2018

Here I come across the most Earth-like planet to date. The planet is covered in green vegetation, blue oceans and ice caps at the poles. This planet is located near the galactic core; therefore, the sky is full of bright stars, even more so than globular clusters.

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

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

Picture of the Day - January 14, 2019

The silhouette of a gas giant and it rings.

Double Moons

Picture of the Day - October 17, 2018

A double transit of two moons across the face of a giant ringed planet.

Picture of the Day 2 - October 17,2018

Another wider angle shot

Pacman Nebula

Pictures of the Day - December 15, 2018

Insight A System - Second Planet (Insight A-II)

Insight A-II is the second planet orbiting Insight A. It is a Venus-like planet shrouded in a thick carbon dioxide and water vapor atmosphere 716 times thicker than Earth’s. The surface temperature averages 1,980 F, and most of the surface is covered in molten rock.

The planet orbits just 0.07 AU from the sun, completing an orbit once every 6.72 Earth days. Insight A-II is a super-earth with a mass 2.66 times that of Earth and a radius of 1.15 Earths.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight A-II

Comet-like planet

The Atmosphere

The Surface

Picture of the day - February 1, 2019 - (Very late post)

Heavily cratered Mars-like planet.

Edited screenshot I took of a gas giant from the simulator “Space Engine” [3089x2980]