Hey guys, I’m cooking something… A very slow cooked meal. In the meantime, welcome to Noman’s Land/Gunsmoke! Some months ago I made a post about possible exoplanets orbiting two stars that could support life, and which ones would be a good fit for Noman’s Land, and the overall take was that most planets are gas giants and therefore can’t be lived in, but their moons could! So, with that in mind, I’ve been exploring this topic quite obsessively over the past few months and painted some concept art for this lunar iteration of Trigun’s world 🌙✨
The post I’m writing explaining all of this is VERY LONG and it’s taking quite some time, so until that one is done, here is an entire day on the least inhabited face of Noman’s Land:
So basically if you lived here you would experience two “night times” in one day, since the planet would eclipse the suns during noon (this moon is tidally locked because I say so). I’ll explain everything in detail on that long ass post!
Edit: I’ve made another post with the details on Kepler-47c and my No Man’s Land!
Some days ago I made this post with some concept art, so here’s a little bit more info about my No Man’s Land! (Disclaimer about the details below the cut: I’m just an artist and in no way, shape or form a scientist, even less so an astrophysicist, so the chances of some of this info being wrong or dubious are very high lol)
Just as a little bit of context, Kepler-47 is an actual “solar system” with two host stars. We’ve been able to find three planets so far, and the outermost (47c) lies in the habitable zone. All three of them are gas giants (or rather “puffy giants” since they’re surprisingly not very dense and temperate).
I’m not gonna give too many details about the real 47c, I’ll leave that for the long post I’m working on (if I ever get to actually publish it, let’s be honest), but the only thing to keep in mind is that Nomans would be a moon orbiting this planet. Also, I decided that people would shorten “No Man’s Land” to “Nomans” overtime, which is the name I’m gonna be using. The question is: how do we call the people living there? Nomanians?
So here are the main points of my design!
-I’ve given 47c several other moons because I wanted it to match the canon as much as I could, and I think it might even help the stability of the orbits if they’re in a specific resonance? Idk, maybe an actual astrophysicist could give me some advice on this (please do)
-The interesting bit about trying to make it match the canon is that I had to make Nomans tidally locked to 47c just to have an excuse for why we never see the big planet on the sky. The idea would be that most of the Seeds ships crashed into the outer face of the moon, and since the other side, the one that’s always looking at 47c, has more extreme conditions precisely because of the influence of the host planet on it, not many people have ventured too much into these lands. At least until now…
-Speaking of the other moons, which one would be the best candidate for the Fifth Moon incident? (Spoiler alert for Maximum and ‘98: Knives forces Vash to use his Angel Arm and he ends up firing at the fifth moon, which leaves its surface marked with a big crater) We have two options: It could be one of the outer moons (the ones whose orbit is beyond that of Nomans) since those are the ones more likely to be present in the visible sky; or it could be Moon II, whose regolith would be launched into space from the blast and form the rings…
-The surface gravity is almost identical to ours here on Earth, although slightly lighter (9.66 m/s^2 compared to 9.8 m/s^2).
-Nomans is somewhat bigger than Mars but smaller than Earth.
-One day lasts for almost 27 hours, and one year would take almost 270 Nomanian days (I swear this was a coincidence). Also, a fun fact on which I’m basing the calendar system (still working on that): it takes 6.6 days for the two stars to orbit around each other. People probably noticed this and were like “Sure, that’s the seven days of the week if you ask me”, probably so that they didn’t have to figure out everything from scratch (I’d do the same). It would be fun to see different cities and places to develop their own weird and wonderful systems (not me spending several hours yesterday to understand all the Maya calendars and wondering what they would come up with in this alien planet moon…).
-And speaking about time, here’s a visual explanation on how the times of day work on the side facing 47c! I realized the other day that at noon the light would probably be tinted slightly red (or some other color, depending on the elements found on 47c’s atmosphere), just like it happens on our Moon when there’s a lunar eclipse. Please make as if you didn’t know this and let’s move on. Also, as a Spaniard I have the right to declare noon time in this part of the world the Sacred Siesta Period.
(Also, shout out to @norageonlypancakes because my main inspiration for these BGs is Chesley Bonestell, he was The Space Artist™️ of the 20th century and inspired so many people to become space nerds or even scientists!) (Also x2, thank you everyone for the lovely comments and tags on the previous post <3)
Bestaan nieuwe planeet in het circumbinaire systeem Kepler-47 bevestigd
Bestaan nieuwe planeet in het circumbinaire systeem Kepler-47 bevestigd
Impressie van het systeem kepler-47. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Er zijn op dit moment 23 exoplanetenbekend, die draaien om twee sterren – á la de planeet Tatooïne uit de Star Wars filmserie. Die sterren worden circumbinaire systemen genoemd en de meeste van die systemen hebben maar één exoplaneet. De uitzondering is Kepler-47, 3340 lichtjaar van ons vandaan en NN Serpentis, 1670 lichtjaar…
Bestaan nieuwe planeet in het circumbinaire systeem Kepler-47 bevestigd
Bestaan nieuwe planeet in het circumbinaire systeem Kepler-47 bevestigd
Impressie van het systeem kepler-47. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
Er zijn op dit moment 23 exoplanetenbekend, die draaien om twee sterren – á la de planeet Tatooïne uit de Star Wars filmserie. Die sterren worden circumbinaire systemen genoemd en de meeste van die systemen hebben maar één exoplaneet. De uitzondering is Kepler-47, 3340 lichtjaar van ons vandaan en NN Serpentis, 1670 lichtjaar…
An artistic sampling of some far-away worlds (source: Yahoo)
Above is an artist rendering of the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. A new analysis of Kepler data found there are at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth. (AP Photo/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Artist’s impression of five possible planets orbiting the star…
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has recently detected two planets orbiting a binary star, named the Kepler-47. This discovery is the latest in great amount of extra solar planets discovered by the Kepler. According to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope website, they are currently working on more ways to find terrestrial planets, particularly in habitable zones. The research they have both completed, and are currently working on, has the potential to change the way we look at space, and how far we can explore out into the galaxy. This could change the way we observe things, and how we look at the galaxy, which is very important because it could eventually change the world. The Kepler-47 has the power to make our space expeditions more and more successful, and our travels more farther out into the galaxy.
The significance of the habitable zone of the Kepler-47c, is extremely notable, because of the possibility that liquid water, and therefore the possibility of life on this outer planet. If there were to be liquid water, it would be on the right sized planetary body. Nevertheless, the Kepler 47-c is a massive gas planet, and it is a little bit bigger than Neptune. But, it is still possible that there is water vapor in the planet's upper atmosphere. This particular feature may be present because of the combination of liquid water, and the amount of gas on the planet. This proves to be significant, if there actually is water on the planet, because finding new life, means making new discoveries. If life were to be found on the habitual zone of the Kelpler-47c, it would be a very important advantage in science.
A discovery of a planet in the Kepler-47 zone, is extraordinarily important to scientists, because water may possibly be found on the planet, which means that life could also be found on the planet. This is very important because life on different planets, could draw different conclusions to questions such as, what do life forms on other planets need to survive, how can we use other life forms to our benefit, and what else is out there, in the galaxy? These are all questions that are frequently thought about by both astronomers, students, and most everyone. If life were to be found on a foreign planet, than that would be a major discovery, and it could possibly change us, and the rest of the galaxy forever. A new planet could lead us toward other planets or galaxies nearby.
It would not be possible for us to send a probe to Kepler-47. This is because the Kepler-47 is approximately 4,900 light years from Earth. That is 2.88046491 × 1016 miles away (according to Google calculator). To send a probe there, would take years and years and years and years (etc.). *MORE TO THIS PARA
