Astronomy / Space Fomalhaut

[Cody]

The Fomalhaut system just became even more interesting, it seems.

 

[Listeri69]

Cue Michael and Dev team swearing as they recode the Fomalhaut system.... But a real interesting read.

 

[Bounder]

I found a report about this on Physorg and wandered over here to share it, so FWIW:

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-bright-nearby-star-fomalhaut-triple.html

The Sciencedaily article's better though.


What's most astonishing however is the sheer size of the resulting ternary system - from our perspective here on Earth, a full 26 LY away, Formalhaut C lies 5.5 degrees away from its primary - the span of eleven full moons...! A whopping 158,000 AU, or 2.5 light years!

Alpha Centauri / Proxima were a memorably massive system at 15,000 AU apart in FE2/FFE (0.2LY), but 158,000 AU is just off the scales of what we're used to considering as a distinct system, and throws open the possibility of ever larger ones, i suppose...

And if it's to be modeled properly in in E: D then i guess interstellar flight will have to be very much sur la table.. which augurs well..!

 

[Voyager_NL]

Whahaha... I guess I'll have to pick a nuumber for posting a link on this... THIRD!!!

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/10/the-fomalhaut-star-system-intriguing-discoveries-about-the-most-massive-of-nearby-multiple-systems.html#more

I haven't reaad it in depth yet but if I read Bounder's description ... wow that is really big!

So here's the location of us REAL explorers then hah

 

[Kerrash]

Hmm, this does raise an interesting question whether Frontier could change the game data at a later time after release to match new discoveries as they happen?

 

[Listeri69]

Hmm, this does raise an interesting question whether Frontier could change the game data at a later time after release to match new discoveries as they happen?

They mentioned something in the kickstarter videos about being able to close off certain areas of the galaxy. So I'm guessing the answer to that is yes.....

It's always the same though isn't it you discover a nice little milk run between two systems and someone comes along and plants a sun in your way.........