Found landable thick-atmosphered planet?
- Thread starter DjVortex
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Good guess, but no.
Yes. I'm well below it, and the galaxy covers half the sky.
Dust clouds? Maybe you lucked out and found a really big dust cloud.
Someone farted.
You're either really high above or far below the galactic plane. That's the Milky Way as seen from several double digit thousand light years away.
Edit: Ninja'd. I didn't read far enough.
I would suggest it's definitely not an atmosphere by the way it appears to thin out and change colour at the bottom edge and left edge, this is the opposite of what an atmosphere would do, it would be thicker near the bottom edge, this therefore is an extra-planetary phenomena, a gas giant, a nebula, something of that sort pictured from a carefully selected angle. You couldn't quite cover the entire picture though, so the fading out to the bottom edge and left edge indicate the boundaries of the phenomena.
For someone with your exploration pedigree, I'm surprised you don't recognize this for what it is. It's simply the skybox from far below the galactic plane. He's landed on an atmosphereless planet and arranged the camera in such a way that the Milky Way is visible in frame.
A couple of kly is enough (in this particular case directly "down" from SagA*.)