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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
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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.
O’Sirus System - Post 1 (Hellish Moon)
We have gone deeper in the Triangulum Galaxy. We are now only 1,473 light years from the NGC 604 Nebula. Our next system is the O’Sirus System, a dim Orange Dwarf orbited by 12 planets, including 1 world that supports life.
The lone satellite orbiting the third planet. Roughly a third of Earth’s mass with a super-heated water vapor atmosphere. Atmospheric temperatures reach up to 1,000 K (1,340 °F), and glowing clouds of Titanium Dioxide hoover over the moon. The sun is only a K9V type star, but at only 0.11 AU, it covers an area of the sky 7.5 times larger than a Full Moon on Earth.
Space Engine System ID: RS 1229-171-8-11850488-229
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - Volcanic moon with glowing metallic clouds.
Picture 2 - Atmospheric Haze
Picture 3 - The Surface
Picture 4 - Lunar Sky
Picture 5 - Eclipse