200 ly from a possible supernova!

CMDR MadRaptor · Dec 27, 2014

It is the planetary nebula IC 289

Shypa · Dec 27, 2014

Wasn´t it possible to take Highres Screenshots ????

Teralek · Dec 27, 2014

Should be a star core in the centre

nexxo · Dec 27, 2014

Raptargh said:
It is the planetary nebula IC 289

Yup. It's a star shedding its outer layers of ionised gas before it goes nova.

Ceekay · Dec 27, 2014

Here's one I found found during the Gammas (probably a solar flare as I did make it out!)

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70775

Cidcaldensfey · Dec 27, 2014

End of the proton-proton chain cycle with a supernova leading to a neutron star? I was going to say helium flash but I think thats only for main sequence stars.

SignalSoldier · Dec 27, 2014

Nutter said:
7ly away... I'm jumping into this!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rztiiz6smbz8ot0/Screenshot_0112.gif?dl=0

Wish me luck!

That's a nebula...

mrinku · Dec 27, 2014

Good find nonetheless.

Also worth noting that regular Novas are common enough that we may well find some in progress somewhere. Supernovae are rare enough that they may well be left as manually triggered events, or that the devs may decide won't happen during this game.

Nutter · Dec 27, 2014

This is the detail on the star at the center, possibly was the outer layer...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7d58zg9cxv5ri0b/Screenshot_0113.jpg?dl=0

My Hi Res ALT-F10 seems to have stopped working unless the shortcut changed

adoredtv · Dec 27, 2014

If any star was about to go supernova it would have been Eta Carinae. Given that it has the appearance of a normal type O star, there is likely nothing in the game remotely resembling a supernova about to happen.

I must admit this looked quite promising to start with though!

adoredtv · Dec 27, 2014

Nutter said:
This is the detail on the star at the center, possibly was the outer layer...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7d58zg9cxv5ri0b/Screenshot_0113.jpg?dl=0

My Hi Res ALT-F10 seems to have stopped working unless the shortcut changed

Hm pretty interesting. It appears that this nebula effect has been reserved for WR stars even though Eta Carinae should have something similar.

Shypa · Dec 27, 2014

ALT-F10 only works in solo mode currently !

Flip · Dec 27, 2014

Nutter said:
My Hi Res ALT-F10 seems to have stopped working unless the shortcut changed

Hi Res screenshots only works in solo mode, now.

EDIT: ninja'ed!

nexxo · Dec 30, 2014

Ceekay said:
Here's one I found found during the Gammas (probably a solar flare as I did make it out!)

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70775

OMG Frontier modelled solar flares?!?
This game completes me.

adoredtv said:
If any star was about to go supernova it would have been Eta Carinae.

Betelgeuse. Astronomers estimate it is (from our point of view) about to go bang anytime between right now and the next 200 years. It's 645 lightyears away so of course it may already have gone nova but the light hasn't reached us yet. When it does, it will appear to us as bright as the sun.