Neutron Star With Rings?

[SpaceMonkeyz]

I am not the first discoverer of this, but I still thought it was unusual enough to share.

Out testing my new graphics card and settings I was checking out an O star system that I knew had probably been tagged before, but it registered as an AA-A H system close to the bubble so I went to see what it was. It was this:

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A whole bunch of class M and K stars orbiting an O star with a Neutron Star With Rings smack dab in the middle. I could not help but try to get a few shots of it.

3.4 million KM radius ring system

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The jets were so small I even inadvertently got pulled out of supercruise trying to see how close I would get but luckily I was able to supercruise out without temp going about 91%. The white line you see going across the middle of this next picture is the rings:

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Then I did some ring skating:

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And some ring diving:

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Never seen that before so even though it is not my discovery, I thought it was worth sharing.


Edit: a better map of the whole system, look at how small the O-star is radius wise vs it's mass:

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[Moonax IRL]

Some very nice pic`s and quiet unusual.

 

[Sapyx]

Someone not too long ago posted some pics of a ringed neutron star orbiting around a black hole. Which, of course, made the rings black, so their pics were kind of a photo-negative of yours. But that was the first I'd heard of the phenomenon.

By the stellar forge, rings can only be found around "planets", not primary or co-orbiting stars. So to find a ringed neutron star, you need to find a primary star (or black hole) that's big enough for a neutron star to go into planetary orbit around. Only the most massive objects in the galaxy would qualify for this.

 

[Whitmann]

I've been there, too - but before neutrons had streams coming out of them. Some great pics

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...r-with-rings?p=4403526&viewfull=1#post4403526

 

[SpaceMonkeyz]

Someone not too long ago posted some pics of a ringed neutron star orbiting around a black hole. Which, of course, made the rings black, so their pics were kind of a photo-negative of yours. But that was the first I'd heard of the phenomenon.

By the stellar forge, rings can only be found around "planets", not primary or co-orbiting stars. So to find a ringed neutron star, you need to find a primary star (or black hole) that's big enough for a neutron star to go into planetary orbit around. Only the most massive objects in the galaxy would qualify for this.

Black rings on a neutron? That seems pretty awesome too.

I love that you can always find new things in this game. I love this exploration section, someone is always finding something interesting. Before I stumbled on to this, I never would have thought rings around a neutron star would be possible, nor that they would look so cool. I will have to track down the black rings one and check it out too.

 

[furrycat]

The system that the "Collection of Wonders" passenger tour mission takes you do has a few black holes, a ringed neutron and a ringed white dwarf. Highly recommended.

I took a mission there and when I arrived I found the system was already bookmarked. Presumably I had seen a post about it somewhere and made a note to check it out.

 

[Macros Black]

Thanks for sharing, CMDR.
Don't think I've seen one of these before, and it's not for lack of trying

 

[Yanick]

That's amazing! I don't think I've ever heard of anything like that before.
A great find Commander!
o7

 

[CMDR Stebus]

All these great things I have seen in this game, but browsing the exploration forums regularly reminds me that i've had but a glimpse of what it has to offer :O

 

[CMDR EfilOne]

Yep, this is a thing ! Found this lovely one two weeks ago, most interesting thing being that it orbits a Black Hole (Big pics ahead !):

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[SpaceMonkeyz]

Yep, this is a thing ! Found this lovely one two weeks ago, most interesting thing being that it orbits a Black Hole (Big pics ahead !):

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http://i.imgur.com/AWoqBkE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/BeJtAnC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/J7jqM7L.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FAZs8qQ.jpg

That IS ALSO AWESOME!

These two neutrons really are negatives of each other, of the black and white rings.

 

[Jackie Silver]

I don't know if it would be possible for the Forge to throw up a neutron star in orbit around a massive primary star (as in, a primary that was still active, not a stellar remnant) as I'd expect anything massive enough to have an NS orbiting would itself have evolved to become a BH before the NS did.

So I would *love* to see one...

I'd also like to see a proc-gen NS with a NS orbiting it (as a planet) - given the Forge sometimes creates unfeasibly massive NS, it might be possible somewhere... I don't remember seeing one.

Nice pics of the rings CMDRs!

 

[SpaceMonkeyz]

I don't know if it would be possible for the Forge to throw up a neutron star in orbit around a massive primary star (as in, a primary that was still active, not a stellar remnant) as I'd expect anything massive enough to have an NS orbiting would itself have evolved to become a BH before the NS did.

So I would *love* to see one...

I'd also like to see a proc-gen NS with a NS orbiting it (as a planet) - given the Forge sometimes creates unfeasibly massive NS, it might be possible somewhere... I don't remember seeing one.

Nice pics of the rings CMDRs!

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Thanks Jackie. I also found it odd how much mass was packed in to that little bitty O star, it was so small. Also at 542 million years old, it is kind of ancient. It must be feeding off the gas of the other stars in the system. It has a Henry Draper number but it popped up when I was scanning for AA-A H systems in the sector I found it in.