When it comes to stars in this game, how big is big?

[Deleted member 115407]

Wow, that's amazing! Someone flying an Asp Scout!

Hey...

- She handles like a race car in supercruise
- Has a 38 Ly jump range with a fairly well modded G5 FSD
- Has so much extra juice that she can handle a G3 cold PP, making heat almost a non-issue
- and still has room for two separate business passenger cabins

https://eddp.co/u/8bJsTKbZ

She may not be the most capable multi-role in the game, but for exploration she's a winner

(For the next trip, though, I'll switch to a 4A/5A scoop and a 3D business cabin (if power allows). You can find plenty of well-paying long-range missions that have 3 or fewer business passengers. That extra 5T should get me up to 40 Ly, and even better if I swap both cabins for 3D).

Look at this beautiful little science exploration vessel, gliding her way past distant worlds

 

[Deleted member 115407]

You can always check your discoveries to the records found here...

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Thanks for the info!

 

[Deleted member 115407]

I'd have been in trouble because even at 110x the speed of light, it's hard to get away from it before I burn up.

Yeah, maybe I'm crazy, but not only did the mass of my Red Giant slow me down considerably, but my trim seemed to get real touchy.

 

[Archduke]

Most of the supergiants and hypergiants we've discovered in real life, like UY Scuti or WOH G64 are outside of our galaxy where gravitational constraints are looser.

I understood UY Scuti to be within the Milky Way, and with a radius iun excess of 1700 times that of the sun, would be a better candidate for largest (radius) star than say, VY CMaj

 

[Zebaoth]

For reference all stars in size comparison at 10.000ls distance

Sol:

RW Cephei:

Betelgeuse:

VY Canis Majoris:

Currently no bigger star in game as VY Canis Majoris as far as I know.

VY Canis Majoris is a bit more than 3900ly from sol, there's no excuse for not visiting this star.
Every elite player owes it to his jaw to be dropped by this monster at least once.

You can already grasp the scale upon approach. Even a few lightyears out jumping towards VY Canis majoris it is really prominent.

 

[Synthetic Frost]

I understood UY Scuti to be within the Milky Way, and with a radius iun excess of 1700 times that of the sun, would be a better candidate for largest (radius) star than say, VY CMaj

Ah, indeed you are correct. Of all the Hypergiants in the LMC, I went and named one off the top of my head that was actually in the the Milky Way. That'll teach me not to fact check before I list off names of stars lol. Nevertheless, what I said is true, most of the hypergiants we know of aren't in the Milky Way.

 

[Trickylion]

I am currently at rho cassiopia, white super giant, 20,000
Solar masses, 450,000 solar radii
Its a hell of a trip to get there....

 

[askavir]

I am currently at rho cassiopia, white super giant, 20,000
Solar masses, 450,000 solar radii
Its a hell of a trip to get there....

That is the only "real world" hypergiant in the game I never went to, just because of the sheer distance.

On your way home, stop by Mu Cephei (35ly jump range needed to reach this one) and KY Cygni (both have 1000 solar radii in the game).

 

[shadragon]

Enjoy...

[video=youtube_share;fKTu6B4Rgek]https://youtu.be/fKTu6B4Rgek[/video]

 

[Synthetic Frost]

For reference all stars in size comparison at 10.000ls distance

Sol:
https://i.imgur.com/TXQ56oY.jpg

RW Cephei:
https://i.imgur.com/Dl0mBaM.jpg

Betelgeuse:
https://i.imgur.com/2EUYFR0.jpg

VY Canis Majoris:
https://i.imgur.com/6k7z7ri.jpg

Currently no bigger star in game as VY Canis Majoris as far as I know.

VY Canis Majoris is a bit more than 3900ly from sol, there's no excuse for not visiting this star.
Every elite player owes it to his jaw to be dropped by this monster at least once.

You can already grasp the scale upon approach. Even a few lightyears out jumping towards VY Canis majoris it is really prominent.

This is a great demonstration. Rep for you my good man.

This brings up an interesting point though. Most of the hypergiants that people have found in ED are red, meaning they were red or yellow stars with long lifespans that expanded in the death throws of their existence. In fact it's funny to see Betelgeuse in Elite because some scientists think it may have already gone hyper nova in real life, and the light from the explosion just hasn't reached us yet.

Blue hypergiants on the other hand burn much, much hotter and have extremely short lifespans. Only a few million years instead of a billion years. Supposedly they're also supposed to be more massive than red hypergiants because they're burning through it all so rapidly, but I haven't really found many blue hypergiants in ED, except for a few smaller hypergiants clustered around VY Canis Majoris, and near Colonia.

 

[ChampN252]

I remember seeing we can't really comprehend how massive stars can by. They largest know black hole from what I saw was incomprehensible large. The star that collapsed to create it was probably a size that would defy everything we know.

 

[Zebaoth]

I remember seeing we can't really comprehend how massive stars can by. They largest know black hole from what I saw was incomprehensible large. The star that collapsed to create it was probably a size that would defy everything we know.

If you don't have already, try out space engine.
I'm actually terrified everytime I fly outside the milky way and suddenly all around me bright lights begin to pop up, with every. single. light. being another galaxy.
It's nuts.

 

[Straha Yeagar]

The biggest I have personally tagged was about 500 solar radii

 

[[SI] Bobdelion]

E: D does scale like no other game and it's one of the things that has kept me fascinated by it.

Flying toward a planetary ring system and then being able to drop right into its field until the individual floating rocks absolutely dwarf your ship. Planets no bigger than dots reflecting the barest minimum of light that grow to encompass your entire screen as you begin your orbital approach, at which point your ship becomes the proverbial dot as the planet's horizon stretches into the distance and you disappear into the multitude of cavernous ravines and craters that litter the surface.

Those comparison shots of Sol and VY Canis Majoris speak volumes. This is a big old galaxy with plenty of surprises yet to be revealed.

 

[Red Martian]

E: D does scale like no other game and it's one of the things that has kept me fascinated by it.

Flying toward a planetary ring system and then being able to drop right into its field until the individual floating rocks absolutely dwarf your ship. Planets no bigger than dots reflecting the barest minimum of light that grow to encompass your entire screen as you begin your orbital approach, at which point your ship becomes the proverbial dot as the planet's horizon stretches into the distance and you disappear into the multitude of cavernous ravines and craters that litter the surface.

Those comparison shots of Sol and VY Canis Majoris speak volumes. This is a big old galaxy with plenty of surprises yet to be revealed.

This. The first time I landed on a planet, I was wondering how it was going to happen. As I got closer, I was expecting to see the signal to disengage Supercruise, but it never came. Instead, the smooth surface became a rough surface, became canyons, and then next thing I know, I've landed. I'm sitting on the surface of the planet with no (apparent) transition (though I'm sure that's what the drop into glide actually is). Well done on FDev's part.

 

[PhoenicianSon]

I just found a Red Dwarf that's 34.8 Solar Radii, and it was quite impressive.

Wondering if that's something folks would be interested in.

Figured I'd add the video to the OP, too. Excellent vid taken by my wingmate in MC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olgRnCtJ-CI

I found a monstrosity of an "O" class star in a system about 2500 ly out west of the bubble. I unfortunately changed computers, so I don't have the picture to upload, but that star was so massive in size it appeared as large as a normal M star when you first jump into the system, but from thousands of LS away. I remember the sector it was located in but will have to log into the game to refresh my recollection. It was in a cluster of systems that had not yet been discovered by anyone, because I received a great deal of first discovered system tags in those systems. Had to have been the largest star I have ever seen playing this game, ever. However, that particular system had already been discovered, so it was definitely visited before and tagged for discovery.

 

[Zebaoth]

I found a monstrosity of an "O" class star in a system about 2500 ly out west of the bubble. I unfortunately changed computers, so I don't have the picture to upload, but that star was so massive in size it appeared as large as a normal M star when you first jump into the system, but from thousands of LS away. I remember the sector it was located in but will have to log into the game to refresh my recollection. It was in a cluster of systems that had not yet been discovered by anyone, because I received a great deal of first discovered system tags in those systems. Had to have been the largest star I have ever seen playing this game, ever. However, that particular system had already been discovered, so it was definitely visited before and tagged for discovery.

I have a few screenshots that make me think "that's awesome, which system was it?".
A pity that FD don't print the system name into the screenshot filename.
Would help so much.

 

[Hatchepsut]

Here is one of my favorite STAR SIZE and Distances Video.

Cool choice of music too.

[video=youtube;GoW8Tf7hTGA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA[/video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA

 

[Stealthie]

Must admit, I tend to ignore stuff that isn't an immediate concern so, as a rule, I'm not really interested in how far from a star I am.

Certainly gives you a "clenched bum-cheeks" moment when you're scooping, you start to overheat (or you finish scooping), crank up the throttle and.... nothing happens.
And that's when I usually notice that I'm flying along next to what appears to be a vertical wall of fire, rather than a curved surface.

Gotta watch out for the gravity of big stars.

 

[Stealthie]

I have a few screenshots that make me think "that's awesome, which system was it?".
A pity that FD don't print the system name into the screenshot filename.
Would help so much.

A very good idea. [up]

Seems like it would be easy enough to save the screenies in a format where that info could be saved as part of the picture's meta-data.

You really should start a thread about that in the suggestions forum.