Earth like world orbiting a Neutron star

Col Frost · Aug 1, 2015

I just found this planet orbiting a Neutron star. I wonder what the sun rise would look like? I wonder how long it will be until I can land and see for myself?

fruitbat · Aug 1, 2015

I've found a few, they seem strangely common, as in as common as they are around main sequence stars.

Col Frost · Aug 1, 2015

It does seem strange. Could a Neutron star really provide enough light to support an earth like world?

Cmdr Raz · Aug 1, 2015

Col Frost said:
It does seem strange. Could a Neutron star really provide enough light to support an earth like world?

They give off plenty of heat, but mostly in x-rays, which really makes it even weirder that there are so many with ELWs around them.Constant bombardment of x-rays isn't exactly healthy to oxygen-breathing life as we know it...

Winterwalker · Aug 1, 2015

Cmdr Raz said:
They give off plenty of heat, but mostly in x-rays, which really makes it even weirder that there are so many with ELWs around them.Constant bombardment of x-rays isn't exactly healthy to oxygen-breathing life as we know it...

Maybe it's life .. as we don't know it .. [ link ]

Cmdr Raz · Aug 1, 2015

Winterwalker said:
Maybe it's life .. as we don't know it .. [ link ]

True

But as long as it's oxygen-dependant life (and it most likely would be on an ELW), it would be susceptible to cancer (oxygen is a terrible thing to breathe, really

), and when you combine that with high radiation, well...

Cmdr. Numa · Aug 1, 2015

Personally I find the few ELWs I found around less that 200 million old T-Tauris odd. That isn't enough time for them to develop, is it ?

Cmdr Raz · Aug 1, 2015

Cmdr. Numa said:
Personally I find the few ELWs I found around less that 200 million old T-Tauris odd. That isn't enough time for them to develop, is it ?

Agreed, very odd - would love to know what sort of life exists on those

Snafu Manchu · Aug 1, 2015

I keep finding ammonia worlds with no actual ammonia in the atmosphere. Didn't somebody find a black hole older than the universe? I do love the games quirks

iain666 · Aug 1, 2015

They cleared up the stuff that was older than the universe a patch or two ago. I went and checked the 18byo star I'd taken a picture of and it was about 10byo instead.

Snafu Manchu · Aug 1, 2015

So the censor finally got to them. The days of weirdness are numbered...

Pilot Mark · Aug 1, 2015

Col Frost said:
It does seem strange. Could a Neutron star really provide enough light to support an earth like world?

A neutron star wasn't always a neutron star

Zieman · Aug 1, 2015

Pilot Mark said:
A neutron star wasn't always a neutron star

But the event that caused the transformation surely would have rendered any Earth-likes as lifeless husks...

Ziljan · Aug 1, 2015

Snafu Manchu said:
I keep finding ammonia worlds with no actual ammonia in the atmosphere. Didn't somebody find a black hole older than the universe? I do love the games quirks

There are Earthlikes with no water in the atmosphere either. It all has to do with temperature and pressure. If it's cold enough the ammonia mostly stays in liquid form.

The older BH could also have been a primordial BH that got captured by th Milky Way.

Col Frost · Aug 1, 2015

I for one wouldn't be that keen to up sticks and re-locate to an earthlike planet orbiting a Neutron star. I don't think factor 50 sun tan cream would really cut the mustard.