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🌙✨Celestial Wonders ✨🪐
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This is the official account for the upcoming fiction project - Celestial Wonders!
Sources: NASA, ESA, Homemade Documentaries (YT Channel)
January 31, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Regardless of what they or others could've thought, Earth survived things from ecological collapse to planetary collisions & still had enough in it to continue maintaining these qualities. For better or for worse, it lives.
January 31, 2026 at 1:28 AM
For many people alive to this day, it would be easy to become numb to what the Earth possesses, take it for granted or perhaps see it as something expendable. They'd neglect the fact they have & will always be a part of the planet.
January 31, 2026 at 1:28 AM
These factors, alongside more, led to the development of a complex, persistent biosphere lasting for billions of years.
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Right at the surface laid unprecedented variations in climate from frozen tundras to wet jungles. Oceans of water kept temperatures & geological activity in check here while creating complex weather patterns. A chemically diverse atmosphere contributed varieties in surface geology.
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 AM
It also created a potent magnetic field - stronger even than the one surrounding Saturn. Earth had an easier time protecting itself from the solar wind than a much more massive gas giant. In fact, it was structured like that of Jupiter's, armored with radiation belts.
January 31, 2026 at 1:27 AM
While the Earth shares similar masses & sizes with Venus, its geology had set itself apart from the latter largely for one thing - a convecting iron core blanketed by the insulating mantle. This allowed plate tectonics to develop & regulate heat flow through the surface.
January 31, 2026 at 1:26 AM
A twenty-four-hour day was nothing new, the rotational period was only six minutes shorter. Orbital patterns had to make up the difference, consistently keeping the planet exactly one AU, or astronomical unit, away from the burning Sun.
January 31, 2026 at 1:26 AM
The orbital & rotational patterns of Earth were often the first things to be studied inhabiting cultures in one way or another as its path seemingly changed the positions of many objects in the sky.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 AM
With it being the most massive terrestrial planet & the densest planet of all, Earth represented an important force in the inner solar system. It was the one to keep its own dust ring in check, while influencing Zoove to occasionally accompany Venus, if one were to exclude the Moon altogether.
January 31, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Sources: NASA, ESA, Homemade Documentaries (YT Channel)
January 30, 2026 at 11:33 PM
It appeared as two seemingly separate lights from the view of the Earth. Lastly, many pages would be warranted to describe its differences from our home. Though, maybe future ponderings would shed light on what they share.
January 30, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Throughout its 4.5 billion years of existence, Venus had been a world of duality within the general vicinity of the Earth & Sun. It was named after a figure of carnal love but would have no second thought in snuffing out said love's offspring.
January 30, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Additionally, the planet was known to have a quasi-moon called Zoove - a tiny asteroid-like world thought to have been pushed into its path by the gravity of the nearby Earth about seven-thousand years ago.
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Like Mercury, Venus possessed an odd pattern of its orbit & rotational period. In this case, a day on Venus would last for about 116 Earth days because of its incredibly slow rotation - one of only two planets to go backwards.
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Furthermore, despite the planet technically being geologically active, its iron core was unable to maintain a strong magnetic field, exposing the atmosphere to the ionizing wrath of the solar wind.
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Down on the surface, it would get so hot that bismuth & lead sulfides wouldn't be able to condense beyond mountaintops, creating a frost-like appearance.
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Enveloping the world was the thick, highly pressurized atmosphere primarily composed of carbon dioxide & sulfur dioxide - two kinds of greenhouse gases. The latter was responsible for making the planet look so reflective & causing sulfuric acid rain to develop.
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Venus shares similar densities, masses, iron cores & sizes to its oceanic kin. It also has a geologically active surface & interior, all with mountains, valleys, volcanoes & rather few impact craters. However, any Earth-born organism would perish in seconds upon the second planet from the Sun.
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 PM
However, a different name would ultimately stick, one for a goddess of love & beauty but still contributing to a different sort of duality.
January 30, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Sources: NASA, Homemade Documentaries (YT Channel), ESA
December 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Whenever you wish to see Mercury amongst Earth's shifting skies, it never strays far from the sun. Often does it hide amongst the blinding rays of golden light throughout its quick orbit. Be sure to catch it if you could.
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In fact, after billions of years since its creation, it is still partly molten & responsible for generating a magnetic field weaker than Earth's but twenty times stronger than Venus'. It's enough to keep the ionizing solar wind at bay.
December 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM