http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/...-planet-found-staggeringly-large-ring-system/
This one would be on my bucket list!
This one would be on my bucket list!
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Massive ring system discovered - if Stellar Forge had made this you'd have filed a bug!
"If we could replace Saturn's rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon."
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-gigantic-j1407b-larger-heavier-saturn.html
"If we could replace Saturn's rings with the rings around J1407b, they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon."
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-gigantic-j1407b-larger-heavier-saturn.html
Sweet find
However, wherever in the rings you choose to drop out of supercruise, four NPCs will find you within three minutes.
There was this ridiculously big ring system on a gas giant in one system I visited not too long ago. Of course I didn't take any screenshots, nor note the place. Or to be exact, it was like a secondary ring system far, far away from the gas giant, with empty space between the main rings and the second one.
Mega saturn exo planet discovered
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31001936
"Astronomers say they have discovered a planet with a gigantic ring system that is 200 times larger than that around Saturn."
As Frontier like to keep the game up to date with known Exo planets, I can't wait to visit this one
Also - makes some of the more outlandish looking ring systems in the game look pretty believable by comparison.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31001936
"Astronomers say they have discovered a planet with a gigantic ring system that is 200 times larger than that around Saturn."
As Frontier like to keep the game up to date with known Exo planets, I can't wait to visit this one
Also - makes some of the more outlandish looking ring systems in the game look pretty believable by comparison.
System J1407 has planet with rings 200 times the size of Saturn's
Will this system be included in the game? It would be cool to see this:
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-gigantic-j1407b-larger-heavier-saturn.html
Will this system be included in the game? It would be cool to see this:
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-gigantic-j1407b-larger-heavier-saturn.html
LOL I was just looking at this and trying to search for Elite screen shots. Looks like a race to see if we can find it!
Brilliant. I just love that mega ring systems have been in the game for several months before humanity detected the first real one. Chalk up another success for the stellar forge simulation.
anyone have any examples of such in E: D ? would be nice to visit?
Pretty impressive.
I wonder how such a thing in our solar system could have altered the evolution of our understandings... "the sun, the moon, and that giant disc thingy".
I wonder how such a thing in our solar system could have altered the evolution of our understandings... "the sun, the moon, and that giant disc thingy".
I would expect there to be a turtle on the other side...
all the way down?
I came across an exact example last week in the direction of Cygnus at HD227733 9
Radius of 171 ls (51,264,432KM), diameter of 342 ls (102,528,864 KM), width of 103 ls (30,878,576KM)
To put the size in context, if you put those rings around Venus, then the rings would reach to the orbits of both Mercury and Earth.
That around a star? : A proto-planetary disk ?