I found an oblong planet!

[ZephyrDark]

On my return trip from the Bubble Nebula, I stumbled upon this gem! Anybody else find one?
EDIT: As 'corrected' by those below, I understand the technically correct term is 'oblate', but I think I'll still stick with Oblong.

 

[Mr_Blastman]

Well ain't that really neat. Nice find.

 

[Gorf]

Oblong? What am I missing here?

To me, oblong is a non-square rectangle. Do you mean oblate?

 

[Lobstris]

If the game can already do oblate spheroids, could we have some stars squished please? (Achenar I'm looking at you!)

 

[Gibbonici]

Nice find! Not seen anything like that.

To me, oblong is a non-square rectangle. Do you mean oblate?

To me, oblong is the surname of Terence Oblong. And if anyone gets that reference I'll be bloody amazed.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

Oblate spheroid to be more precise.

 

[fantodant]

Oblong? What am I missing here?

To me, oblong is a non-square rectangle. Do you mean oblate?

ob·long
ˈäbˌlôNG/
adjective
[COLOR=#878787 !important]

• 1.
  having an elongated shape, as a rectangle or an oval.

Doesn't seem that much of a stretch to me.

(No pun intended.)
(Shoot me now.)

 

[NewYears1978]

Looks normal to me..???

 

[TieKnee]

not sure either .. I was expecting an egg shaped type of pic .. but this planet looks normal ... what am I missing???

 

[Astronut57]

That's normal for gas giants.
Jupiter and Saturn are that shape. It's because of their high rotation rate.

 

[DocStone]

Nice find! Not seen anything like that.



To me, oblong is the surname of Terence Oblong. And if anyone gets that reference I'll be bloody amazed.

"Nobody here but us chickens!"

Nightingales loyal

 

[Soda Popinski]

The Earth is also an oblate spheroid, just not nearly as noticeable.

 

[ZephyrDark]

That's normal for gas giants.
Jupiter and Saturn are that shape. It's because of their high rotation rate.

not sure either .. I was expecting an egg shaped type of pic .. but this planet looks normal ... what am I missing???

Looks normal to me..???

1: I don't spend much time around Sol and other filthy federation systems, so I couldn't compare the modeled version of Jupiter and Saturn.
2: In all my exploring, I have not seen a Gas Giant that had a larger radius at the equator than a meridian. So I posted this to show what I found and to see if anyone else had seen it.
3: Compare the vertical diameter to the horizontal diameter and compare them to the other planets in the pictures, you'll see the difference.

 

[salad]

Guys since we're talking about this, is Achernar shaped like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achernar#mediaviewer/File:Achernar.svg

I've never been there before.

 

[ZephyrDark]

Guys since we're talking about this, is Achernar shaped like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achernar#mediaviewer/File:Achernar.svg

I've never been there before.

Sadly not, it'd be really cool if they did shape it like that!

 

[khaitom]

Nice find! Not seen anything like that.



To me, oblong is the surname of Terence Oblong. And if anyone gets that reference I'll be bloody amazed.

Terrence Oblong is Dead.

 

[Gibbonici]

"Nobody here but us chickens!"

Nightingales loyal

The very one! As promised, I am bloody amazed.

Only about 5 people in the universe seem to know about Nightingales, which is a shame because it was awesome.

 

[barcode]

Jupiter in our own solar system is oblate too, to the point where its noticeable in a backyard telescope.

 

[Varrag]

I think those started to appear in one of the latest patches because only today I've seen few, and not a single one before.

Hopefully, they will make fast spinnng stars oblate spheroids too. Preferably with gas being released into space along the equator due to the centrifugal force. Realistic Pleione, for example, should actually look like this: