Planetary Rings - Blog Posts
Gas giant with violet-colored clouds and rings.
The shadow of a moon's eclipse is visible across this gas giant’s rings.
Front row seat to a galactic merger.
Picture of the day - February 15, 2019
Gas giant with vivid violet rings.
Picture of the Day - February 11, 2019 (Late post)
Blue ice giant with blue rings.
Pictures of the day - February 10, 2019 (Late post).
Montage of lunar skies.
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.
Picture of the day - January 23, 2019
Galaxy looms large behind the rings of a gas giant.
Picture of the Day - January 21, 2019
A ringed Titan under the dim glow of a red sun.
Picture of the Day - January 19, 2019
An ice giant moon of a gas giant.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-7-11773-222 4.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine.
Pictures of the Day - January 18, 2019
2nd set of pictures of this Titan-Like world.
Pictures of the day - January 17, 2019
Colorful Titan-Like world with seas of liquid methane and a surface thriving with methane-based life, which give the planet it's unique coloring.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-8-206537-286 8 to visit the planet in Space Engine.
Pictures of the day - January 16, 2019
Comets
Picture of the Day - January 14, 2019
The silhouette of a gas giant and it rings.
Picture of the day 2 - January 10, 2019
Warm gas giant surrounded by a rainbow-colored ring system.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-1391-7-1315996-265 4 to visit the planet in space engine.
Picture of the Day - January 10, 2019
An ocean world with a small ring system hangs over the sky of a barren moon.
Picture of the day - January 9, 2019
Ringed Desert-Like moon with life and a large moon.
Picture of the Day - January 6, 2019
Ringed ice giant orbiting a star located near a beautiful red-colored nebula.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8550-3584-8-657793-464 5 to visit the planet in Space Engine.
PS: I apologize for the inconsistency of pictures lately. Personal issues are making my regular post schedule something erratic.
Picture of the day - January 3, 2019
Desert-like moon orbiting a large gas giant. This is the same world as the skylines from the previous post.
Pictures of the day - January 1, 2019
A set of skylines from a large moon of a gas giant.
Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-7-7-1842438-367 A5.1 to visit the moon in Space Engine
Pictures of the Day - December 31, 2018
Here I come a across a massive Super-Jovian gas giant. The planet is close to the boundary line with a brown dwarf and has a mass of more than 11 times that of Jupiter. It orbits a hot B-Type star that is part of a binary system consisting of a B type main sequence star and a blue supergiant. The system is located just outside of a globular cluster.
Monstrous storms rage across the planet’s atmosphere, powered not just from the warmth of two luminous suns, but also from internally released heat. A well-structured ring system surrounds the planet along with 66 natural satellites, 6 of which larger than the planet Mercury, including 1 ocean moon larger than Earth that has its own ring system.
Space Engine System ID: RSC 5581-4-0-0-300 B3 to visit the planet in Space Engine.
Planet Stats:
Radius: 71,573.62 km (11.22 x Earth, 1.02 x Jupiter) Mass: 11.06 Jupiter Masses (3,515 x Earth) Orbital Distance: 11.43 AU Length of Year: 16.33 Years Length of Solar Day: 7 hours 56 mins Gravity: 27.90 g Temperature: 720 K (836°F) Atmosphere Composition: 92.7% Hydrogen, 6.88% Helium, 0.32% Methane, 0.10% Hydrogen Deuteride
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
Pictures of the day - December 27, 2018
Parting Shots of the Insight A and Insight B Systems, Alien Skies.
Now that all of the worlds of the Insight A and Insight B systems have been revealed, here are some parting shots before I begin my exploration of new star systems.
Space Engine System ID: RS 5581-42-6-76887-1116
High Resolution Pictures
Insight B-IV-M3 sky
Insight A-VII Sky
Insight A-V Sky
Insight A-IV-M8 Sky
Insight B-V Sky
Insight B-VI-M2 Sky
Insight B-I Sky
Picture of the day - December 26, 2018
Insight A System - Ninth Planet (Insight A-IX)
Insight A-IX is the Insight A systems second largest and second most massive planet. It is an ice giant 17.40 times more massive than Earth, and has a radius of 3.28 Earth Radii. The planet is surrounded by a narrow yet well structured ring system, and a system of 6 small ellipsoidal satellites.
The planet orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 7.34 AU, completing 1 orbit every 18.35 Years. A day on the planet lasts just 9 hours and 6 minutes. The planet has a thick hydrogen/ helium atmosphere, and has an average atmospheric temperature of -279 F.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-IX
Small moon
Narrow Rings
Ring Closeup
Crescent
Pictures of the Day - December 25, 2018 (Merry Christmas)
Insight A System - Either Planet (Insight A-VIII)
Insight A-VIII is the eighth planet orbiting Insight A. It is an ice-giant with a mass 15.46 times that of Earth, and a diameter of 3.19 Earths. The planet has unusually pronounced cloud bands, and a wide-spaced ring system. It orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 4.01 AU, completing 1 orbit every 7.41 Years.
This planet has an active atmosphere with an average temperature of -213 F, and a day on the planet last 11 hours and 6 minus. 5 moons orbit the planet that are large enough to be rounded by their own gravity, including 4 larger than 2,000 kilometers across.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-VIII
Transiting Moon
Closeup
Asteroid Moon
View from outer-most large moon
Pictures of the day - December 24, 2018
Insight A System - Seventh Planet (Insight A-VII)
Insight A-VII is a cold super-Earth and largest rocky planet orbiting Insight A. The planet has a mass of 3.10 Earths, and a diameter 53% larger than Earth. It orbit’s its sun at an average distance of 1.97 AU, completing an orbit once every 2.55 years. A day lasts only 13 hours and 20 minutes.
The surface is covered in a carbon dioxide atmosphere with a surface pressure of 1.73 atmospheres, and an average surface temperature of -105 F. The atmosphere is extremely cloudy with clouds of water-ice and dry ice. An extensive system of rings orbit’s the planet, and a large moon.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-VII
Closeup
Duality
The Atmosphere
The Surface
Pictures of the day - December 22, 2018
Insight System - Sixth Planet (Insight A-VI)
Insight A-Vi is an Earth-like water-world with a surface completely covered in oceans. The planet has a mass of 0.65 Earths and a diameter 0.97 times that of our planet. An extensive ring system surrounds the planet and the oceans contain simple signed-celled life.
The planet orbits at an average distance of 1.10 AU and a day on the surface lasts 18 hours and 31 minutes. Compared to the inner-worlds, Insight A-VI is rather cold with an average global temperature of 41 F. Still the oceans absorb enough heat that there are no ice caps at the poles, since ocean currents keep the water from freezing.
Note the inner two planets have comet like appearance from their atmospheres being strip away by the sun.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight A-VI
Three small moons
Rings
The sun and inner planets
Sunset
Planet rise
Insight A System (Outer 4 Planets)
Here are the outer 4 planets orbiting Insight A. Each planet has a large ring systems.
Insight A-VI (0.65 Earth masses, Water World with life, 1.10 AU)
Insight A-VII (3.10 Earth masses, Cold Desert World, 1.97 AU)
Insight A-VIII (15.46 Earth Masses, Ice Giant, 4.01 AU)
Insight A-IX (17.40 Earth Masses, Ice Giant, 7.34 AU)
Space Engine System ID: RS-5581-42-6-76887-1116 A
Pictures of the day 2 - December 9, 2018
Insight B System - Moons of the sixth planet
Here we have a few views of the system’s sixth planet viewed from the surfaces of the three inner-most moons.
High Resolution Pictures
View from the inner-most moon
View from the second moon
View from the third moon
Picture of the day - December 9, 2018
One of Insight B-VI’s smaller outer moons crossing the face of a large cyclone.