"Gray glow" over some systems
- Thread starter Dragovich
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I remember nebulae that only span a single system. Maybe that is what you are looking at?
Those faint glows are usually around larger, brighter stars - that you star you've got there is, what, B-class? Mostly the glows are around the O-class stars of the galaxy, but some bigger B-class ones can glow faintly too.
That would be planetary nebulae; which is different to what we're looking at here.
Did you go into the system? It could be a small planetary nebula, they only exist in one system, and some are small enough not to be really noticeable from the galaxy map unless zoomed in like that.
Yup, i were there, just star with purple glow over it i think. But it wasn't a W-F
EDIT: Definately an O-class star
And there we go.
If you zoom out far enough in the galaxy map for the local bubble of stars around your cursor to disappear you'll see thousands of white dots in certain directions - those are all the O-class stars like this one.
Yes, they're tiny little nebulae around certain stars. Usually bright stars like O or giant B stars, but occasionally around T Tauris or other protostars. You can't really see these nebulae from within the system (unlike a planetary nebula, which colours the whole skybox). You can see them from adjacent systems; they appear much as they do there on the galaxy map, a fuzzy ball around the central star.
does it mean there are small seismic charges in that system? asking for a friend...
I have seen them around Herbig AE/BE stars, quite young and bright I suppose, B class, O class, WR, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs, all bright, and Black Holes, not bright at all. But not all bright stars have them, so I would suggest dust left over from stellar formation. It's mostly O class of course, the others are rarer to see, keep in mind that O class stars are the youngest stars you will see, so it's much more likely they will be surrounded by remnants of the stellar cloud they formed from.
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Those aren't all O class starts, many of those glows are black holes
I didn't realise that. All the grey glows I've bothered to search out and hover over have been O class. I wonder if those would be accreting black holes? They'd be pretty bright objects. There's a lot of stuff that the stellar forge takes account of that aren't visible in the game, so maybe the game knows which ones are emitting brightly and so there's a base to work on top of for when accretion disks eventually come into the game.
In the sector I'm surveying right now, far Above the gaactic core, all the fuzzy-blob-nebula stars I've investigated have been either T Tauri stars or perfectly ordinary K class stars. All with Mass code g; this sector is in the Cross of Suppression, where O class and black holes/neutron stars are impossible.