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Giant Blue Rising

Created: 2026-02-28 15:55:28 Last Edited: 2026-02-28 22:12:10
  Discovered and Submitted by: mravikgabi
Star System:Thuechaei AF-Y d1-11
Coordinates:5869.09 / -575.219 / 52866.8
Sol Distance: 53,194.7 ly
Region:Formorian Frontier
Category:Planetary Features
 



Summary:

An Earth-like moon with a nested moon of its own that's landable, with the Earth-like covering a large part of its sky.

 
Description:

The point of interest in this system is the Earth-like world (8 a) orbiting a gas giant, and its own nested moon (8 a a). Such planets that are satellites of a gas giant are already very rare, and when they have their own nested moon, it's even more rare.

Thankfully, these moons are often landable, and this one is no exception. It doesn't hold an atmosphere. Since nested moons orbit their parent moons at relatively small distances - this one is around 12 Mm away from the Earth-like, or less than 0.04 ls - the parents appear to be enormous, covering a large part of the sky.

While the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, nor life on its surface, it does have volcanic activity, in the form of major silicate vapour geysers. After all, both the Earth-like world and the gas giant exert strong tidal forces.

Its parent is an Earth-like world that's quite cold, but still habitable. Even then, it only holds an average surface temperature of 265 K thanks to the presence of water vapour in its atmosphere. While 0.23% doesn't sound like a lot, without its contribution via the greenhouse effect, the world would have fallen below 260 K and would no longer be considered habitable.

This system was discovered during the Distant Worlds 3 expedition, in 3312.

 
ID64 Address:389675900435
EDSM ID:97432934
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EDSM Traffic Report

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Nearest GEC Neighbors:

 POI Name  Distance  Rating   System 
Crystal Alley  2,506.34  5.18  Ploea Brou NO‑A b... 
Chroan Crystal Reefs  2,889.98  3.23  Preae Chroa LP‑A ... 
In Pink Haze  3,337.44  5.60  Syrive KR‑W d1‑144 
Formorian Sanctuary  3,547.98  4.79  Preae Chroa JE‑I ... 
Caelum Roseus  4,081.56  4.25  Truechuae DR‑D d1... 
Darkest Gardens  6,011.80  3.18  Vuchaae NC‑V d2‑0 
Stretch's Eye  6,137.40  2.72  Truechoae XE‑Q b19‑4 
Plio's Sphere  6,549.99  2.00  Plio Chruia VY‑U ... 

Nearest GMP Neighbors:

 POI Name  Distance  Rating   System 
Glaciem Nebula  927.46  N/A  Blo Chroa ZE‑R e4‑6 
Violetaria  1,192.99  N/A  Blo Chroa UE‑R e4‑18 
The Astral Shroud Nebula  1,358.10  N/A  Preia Byoea VU‑X ... 
Flyeia Void Sea  2,275.03  N/A  Flyeia Byoea GE‑K... 
Opposites Attract  2,278.22  N/A  Ploea Brou RH‑D c... 
Bleak's Power Trio  2,446.90  N/A  Ploea Brou IX‑U b... 
Nova's Wake  2,945.22  N/A  Auphairks AF‑Z e2 
Roncevaux Depot  3,148.77  N/A  Byeia Chruia BD‑T... 
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