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Picture of the day 2 - November 16, 2018.
Tidally locked desert-like world with green vegetation growing between the hellishly hot day-side desert, and the endless ice of the night side.
Picture of the day - November 16, 2018
An Earth-Moon analog.
Picture of the day 2 - November 15, 2018
Shepard moon orbiting within a ring gap of a giant planet.
Picture of the day - November 15, 2018
Large gas giant orbiting a pair of binary suns within a large nebula.
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
Picture of the day - November 14, 2018
Twin suns begin rising over an airless Mercury-Like planet.
Picture of the Day 2 - November 13, 2018
A ringed desert world located in the core of the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy. There are nearly 116 stars within just 1 light year of this planet.
Pictures of the day - November 13, 2018
Tempus System - First Round of Pictures
I’ve decided to showcase another system, and here are the pics of a system in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy I am calling the Tempus System
Space Engine System ID: RS-8475-7-6-4-195
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Mars-Like World
Crescent
Scorched Surface
Cold battered desert moon
Orbital Closeup
Dim suns
Distant giant
Another ring shot
Inner Clouds
Picture of the day - November 12, 2018
Inner planets orbiting close to the sun are losing their atmosphere’s at a rapid rate generating a large gas cloud in this system. The gas is thick enough to glow from the illumination of the sun, shrouding the star from the view of the outer planets.
It is likely that other solar systems with hot gas and ice giants have an appearance similar when viewed from orbiting distant planets. The small cloud visible to the left is the Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxy.
A collection of alien skies from another system I have come across in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
Space Engine System ID: RS 8475-7-7-32-196
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Picture of the day - November 11, 2018
Inner planet loosing its atmosphere viewed from the surface of an asteroid moon.
Ember in the Sky
Picture of the Day 3 - November 10, 2018
Moon orbiting a young gas giant still glowing with heat from it’s formation with a distant blue sun beginning to set.
Cold Green World
Picture of the day 2 - November 10, 2018
A cold ice-giant and one it’s moons passing in front of the disk of the Milky Way.
Pictures of the Day - November 10, 2018
Three different desert worlds orbiting a bright red dwarf with surface shots. The star is roughly 10% the brightness of the sun, about as bright as you can get for a red dwarf. A common misconception is that red dwarfs are actually red in color. This is true only for the smaller dim ones, but most have a more orange to red-orange tint to them.
Unfortunately, I already left the system long before I could log the system ID.
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Picture of the Day 2 - November 9, 2018
Narrow sea cuts through the forests of a life supporting world with red-colored vegetation.
Picture of the Day - November 9, 2018
Crescent gas giant over an asteroid moon.
Colorful Desert World
Picture of the day 2 - November 8, 2019
A rather vibrant desert-type planet with active weather.
Red Giant
Picture of the Day - November 8, 2019
A scorched plant and its moon orbiting a bloated Red Giant. Both of these worlds orbit the star at twice the distance Neptune orbits from the sun, yet have surface temperatures of more than 1,200 °F.
Pictures of the Day - November 7, 2018
Another Earth-Like world I have come across in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy. This one has two moons and a rather cold surface with lots of ice covered mountains.
Space Engine System ID: RS 8475-2-6-170985-622 4
High Resolution Pics
From a distance
Closeup
Two moons
Icy Wasteland
Moonrises
Another double moon shot
The moons illuminating the night-side of the planet
Earth-rise
Earth and moon rise.
Galaxy Center
Picture of the day - November 6, 2018
The center of the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy, according to space engine.
Battered Desert
Picture of the day - November 5, 2018
A cratered desert world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere. Both heavily cratered combined with extensive surface modification from volcanism and other forms of geological activity. Evidence of a tectonic fault-line is present in the above image.
Glowing Sky
Picture of the Day 2 - November 4, 2018
Auroras glow brilliantly over a lunar sky with the Milky way Galaxy looming large.
Purple Skies
Picture of the Day - November 4, 2018
The surface of a large moon orbiting a gas giant that has an unusual purple-tinted atmosphere. The moon has diatomic sulfur in the upper atmosphere producing the purple hue.
Blue Ring
Picture of the day - November 3, 2018
A cold ice-world with a thick nitrogen atmosphere backlit against a blue B-type sun. The star is so bright that all objects, even some asteroids reflect enough light to be visible orbiting close to the star. The comet-looking object is not a comet, but a planet getting its atmosphere burnt away by the sun.
Green Desert
Picture of the Day - November 2, 2018
Weird green desert-world rich in life, but lacking any bodies of surface liquids. Planet has a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere, average surface temperature of 73°F on the day side and is tidally locked to the sun.
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.
My last post of planets in the Triangulum galaxy, a ringed world montage. And all these planets were found in one star system.
I have not decided which galaxy I am going to visit next, but I will left you know in the next day or so.
Space Engine System ID: RS 1229-118-6-214335-274
High Resolution Pictures
Ice Giant
Colorful Ice Giant
Cold Helium Gas Giant
Super-Earth
Ice World
Earth-like planet with life.
Dark Cloud
Picture of the Day - October 31, 2018
A dark Nebula hangs over the sky of an airless moon.
Note: There will be one last set of pics posted for the Triangulum Galaxy this evening before I visit another galaxy to begin exploring.
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Approaching Eclipse
Picture of the Day 2 - October 30, 2018
The approaching shadow of an eclipse across an alien desert.
River Valley
Picture of the day - October 30, 2018
Best shot yet of a river valley I have found, taken on an Earth-like world. The planet has a unique yellow-colored atmosphere.