Pictures Of The Day - January 18, 2019

Picture of the Day - January 28, 2019

Gas giant with purple cloud bands hangs in the sky of a large rocky moon.

Picture of the Day - January 4, 2019

A hot desert-world with exotic land-based life.

Space Engine System ID: RS 5613-2267-7-1038156-494 A3 to visit the world in Space Engine.

Various Views Of The Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) (M8)

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

We really do have some weird moons in our solar system!

End of the Day

Picture of the Day - October 18, 2018.

Sunset on an alien moon.

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

The burning sun begins to set behind a large volcano.