Picture Of The Day 2 - November 27, 2018

Triangulum Log - Post 1 - The Outskirts.

My first adventure brings us to this Yellow Super Giant and companion black hole. The system is young and filled with many gas giants that still glow with the heat of their formation.

All of the planets orbit far from the star, the nearest having a orbital radius of 10.57 AU. Numerous planets are also double planets including a double Jupiter as shown above.

More pics of this system and my thoughts on if this system could actually exist in the real universe to come.

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 - 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

Lonely Moon

Picture of the Day - October 19, 2018

Small moon passing in front of a large Super-Earth type planet.

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.

New Blogs - Coming Soon

To all my followers. I am creating some new blogs to include different interests of mine besides just astronomy and space engine. The first blog will be about rabbits and sharks. I know it sounds like an odd mix, but it covers both my favorites from land and the sea and will include pics of my two buns. A few other possible blogs I might start include general interests, sci-fi stuff, and maybe just thought for the day type material.

The rabbits and sharks blog should be up and running soon.

Blog Changes

I have decided to try a different direction with this blog and instead of posting a whole bunch of pics of single systems, I am going to start posting a pic of a new world every day. That way its frees me to to explore more systems and find really stunning worlds.

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

High Resolution Pictures

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Starry Night

Picture of the Day - October 16, 2018

The sands of a desert world with the sky full of bright stars. This planet orbits a star located within a globular cluster; therefore, many bright stars punctuate the night sky. The bright star near the lower left is the planet’s sun, which is barely discernible from other stars in the sky,

What’s the biggest misconception people have about space or astronomy in general?

I’m not sure which is the biggest mistake, but I believe that one of them is the colors that are imposed on the images of planets, nebulae and other bodies of space. Many images are not real colors, many of them are fake colors. False colors are used to differentiate, some particular type of material, temperature, wavelength, chemical or mineral variations, and other factors.

Mercury with colors in visible light

Color-enhanced, this image represents chemical and mineral variations across the planet: tan areas are lava-formed plains, and blue regions show material that reflects little light.

This image shows two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile . The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide Field Camera 3.

Some illustrations of space can also deceive or confuse, like images of exoplanets, where in fact we do not know for sure what it would be, since we can not have such clear images to the point where we can see them closely, and other things like representation of the curvature of space time, which shows a curvature in 2D, would actually be in 3D, but this is a little harder to visualize.

Curvature of the space-time fabric in 2D

Curvature of the space-time fabric in 3D

An annotated view of the Beta Pictoris system.

Artist’s impression of Beta Pictoris b. The debris disk around the parent star can be seen.

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