Lucky discoveries on lonely journey home...

A few days ago I hit the edge of the Galaxy, well, at least as far as my Asp, the Dark Voyager, will take me on this current vector. Distances between the stars were than my jump range. The edge is all very dark and desolate. While it has its own unique feel to it, it is a bit dull, there are so few stars out here that finding something unusual just by scrolling about in the Galaxy Map is just not going to happen. While I have happened upon water worlds, earth-likes and interesting gas giant systems out here too, my favourite type of system, "O-type surrounded by many smaller stars", is not to be found out here... not saying that the edge sucks, only that it feels very desolate, even more so than I thought it would.

So, Solwards I turn.. well.. not exactly, I have to go around a certain rift first. Then it will be Solwards. It is the beginning of what I expect to be a very desolate and unremarkable journey. But, then I happen upon the following three Astronomical Favourites in a matter of less than 10 jumps!

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A Water World with almost no weather, but a huge Ice Cap!

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An Earth-Like World with the "Archipellago" setting! (Anyone seen a "Pangea" like ELW? :) )

And best of all... A Supernova Remnant!
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To be fair, I did spot the Supernova Remnant on the Galaxy Map when plotting my route, but by then I was so close to it that it became visible to me one jump later..

As a nice bonus, they were all unclaimed.

Well played, Milky Way... Uneventful Journey Indeed! :D
 
Super nova remenant!? Is that a targetable object? I hadn't known they could be found in game

They are little nebulas surrounding a stellar remnant. If the remnant is a Neutron Star or a Black Hole, it must be a supernova remnant. If it is a white dwarf in the center, there's some other name for it, since there hasn't then been a supernova.
I don't think you can filter or search for the visible remnants, but they will be centered on Neutron Stars or Black Holes.. and you can filter for those. The visible blue ones like this one are very rare, I think, since they are only visible when the supernova was fairly recent.. I think.
 
Wait... That means all the nebulae we have called Planetary Nebulae is actually supernova remnants and that there is no procedurally generated PA's in the galaxy...

Oh come on frontier!
 
Great journey Cmdr Lurker, Rep.

Very intresting waterworld find, Superb icecap. not seen one quite so massive on my jounreys.
Nice Find on the Nebula. a Blue flavour it looks like.
from my journeys it seems there are 3 types i have encountered. correct me if theres more types.

The Deep indigo blue, like a shattered cloud reminant sometimes double cloud.
The Blue green minty tube.. like a thin tubular of blue/green. very green inside.
The Red sometimes yellow/red starburst. Quite lovley although never found a first discovery one of these 3 types yet. e.g search 'eskimo' nebula for the red type.
Deep blue/purple and minty green/blue no easy example names. and need to turn in my data before revealing them.
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Great journey Cmdr Lurker, Rep.

Very intresting waterworld find, Superb icecap. not seen one quite so massive on my jounreys.
Nice Find on the Nebula. a Blue flavour it looks like.
from my journeys it seems there are 3 types i have encountered. correct me if theres more types.

The Deep indigo blue, like a shattered cloud reminant sometimes double cloud.
The Blue green minty tube.. like a thin tubular of blue/green. very green inside.
The Red sometimes yellow/red starburst. Quite lovley although never found a first discovery one of these 3 types yet. e.g search 'eskimo' nebula for the red type.
Deep blue/purple and minty green/blue no easy example names. and need to turn in my data before revealing them.
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Beautiful shots, Pan :)
 
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