MY GOD- Its full of stars!

[carazvan]

I did say wow! I was thrilled to say the least to see something like this.

That looks like another region of O-Type giants and B-type supergiants ... and they seem to be somewhat limited to some 'cubeish' stellar nursery areas so once you jumped close enough to the cube bam .. they all appeared.
I have a post of a similar area around Skaude Area

 

[SirKiwi]

That looks like another region of O-Type giants and B-type supergiants ... and they seem to be somewhat limited to some 'cubeish' stellar nursery areas so once you jumped close enough to the cube bam .. they all appeared.
I have a post of a similar area around Skaude Area

The oddity was that I couldn't find this cluster of stars on the galaxy map, but perhaps that was just a mistake on my end.

 

[Bluebottle]

The oddity was that I couldn't find this cluster of stars on the galaxy map, but perhaps that was just a mistake on my end.

Did you use the star type filter? If you restrict it to just showing O and B stars, these cubes often stand out quite strongly in my experience, but the galaxy map draw distance is rather low so they can still be tricky to locate, often it seems like you have to have the pointer circle actually inside the cube before it draws it.

 

[SirKiwi]

Did you use the star type filter? If you restrict it to just showing O and B stars, these cubes often stand out quite strongly in my experience, but the galaxy map draw distance is rather low so they can still be tricky to locate, often it seems like you have to have the pointer circle actually inside the cube before it draws it.

I did use the star type filter, with no result. However, I am very near the core and even a mass of stars of this size could easily hide among the insane density of stars near the core.

 

[rennarda]

IRL I would say it was a globular cluster, but I haven't seen any of those in ED yet.

I know that the distribution of stars in ED is biassed to the detection angles of the various real-world observatories used to map out the stars. That means that stars are sometimes shown in long 'sprays' because the observations have only taken a 'slice' through a cluster of stars (take a look at the orion nebula in-game).

It could be that you were side-on to a 'spray' and then jumped so that you were 'end on' to it and suddenly all the stars appeared grouped together ?

 

[Armante]

They also have the shortest beak of any bird.

I was about to call bull, then looked it up. Turns out beak length is measured between the bird's nostrils and the tip, and as the Kiwi's nostrils are at the end (which is the weird bit) it does indeed have a short beak.
Even though they tend to be 15cm or so. Go figure!

Just how off-topic can you get eh?

 

[Doomprayer]

Watch out for a portal to Saturn.

 

[Gorf]

They also have the shortest beak of any bird.

Its beak is typically one third the length of its body, which makes its beak one of the longest, proportional to its body size.

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It's only the normal practice of measuring beak length from nostril to tip which makes its beak proportionally one of the shortest, because the kiwis nostrils are at the tip.

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Edit: I should probably read the thread to the end before typing up replies...

 

[SirKiwi]

Its beak is typically one third the length of its body, which makes its beak one of the longest, proportional to its body size.

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It's only the normal practice of measuring beak length from nostril to tip which makes its beak proportionally one of the shortest, because the kiwis nostrils are at the tip.

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Edit: I should probably read the thread to the end before typing up replies...

That's awesome! I know kiwis have very long beaks so I was wondering why anyone would say that, but I guess it's just a fluke of classification.