Red stars?

DjVortex

DjVortex
I was on one of those "such-and-such wants to collect data" missions where the target is like 10+ kly away, towards the center of the galaxy. At one point I noticed that there's very red star in the starfield. How strange. Only one of the hundreds of white dots was completely red. I have never seen such a thing. I thought that maybe it's not a star but a very far away nebula?

A few jumps later I noticed that there were even more red stars. Very red stars.

"Well, duh! Of course there are red stars! There are also yellow stars, blue stars, white stars, brown stars..." Except that I have never seen anything but white dots in the sky. Never red dots like this. Is this normal?
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DjVortex

DjVortex
Could it perhaps be that those stars are closer than usual (because I'm so much closer to the center of the galaxy) and that's why they are showing up? In the bubble they tend to be so far and so faint that they aren't rendered?
 

varonica

varonica
Leadfoot said:
It should also be noted that according to Astronomy Magazine, class m red dwarfs make up around 90% of all the stars in the Milky Way.
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Which will increase as the galaxy ages because dwarfs last longer than any other stars, and as they burn out the proportion of dwarf stars to other star types will increase until only dwarf stars are left not just in the galaxy but the entire universe.
 

varonica

varonica
ArchEmperor said:
This is intriguing. What secrets may these calm red stars and their mysterious planets hold? ... we must investigate them all.
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Basically the lifetime of a dwarf star, because they use fuel so slowly compared to other star types, is in the trillions of years, so when everything else is a burnt out husk dwarf stars will still be there glowing dimly, but they are worth visiting, I never deliberately avoid them unless I need to grab some fuel. Now note, T Tauri are not dwarf stars, T Tauri stars, which are often reddish, are actually young stars in the process of collapse, the gravitational forces at the center of T Tauri stars haven't really got the the stage of causing a full fusion reaction, so they will be dim and sometimes red, but will brighten eventually and move on to be main sequence stars, so you will see T Tauri stars in many different colours.
 

ArchEmperor

ArchEmperor
varonica said:
Basically the lifetime of a dwarf star, because they use fuel so slowly compared to other star types, is in the trillions of years, so when everything else is a burnt out husk dwarf stars will still be there glowing dimly, but they are worth visiting, I never deliberately avoid them unless I need to grab some fuel. Now note, T Tauri are not dwarf stars, T Tauri stars, which are often reddish, are actually young stars in the process of collapse, the gravitational forces at the center of T Tauri stars haven't really got the the stage of causing a full fusion reaction, so they will be dim and sometimes red, but will brighten eventually and move on to be main sequence stars, so you will see T Tauri stars in many different colours.
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Yes. I have heard stories. Legends even, of men who gone into the fields of the red stars and disappeared forever. Of immeasurable treasures and unfathomable dangers. Oh, yes. There are things lurking in the deep. Monsters on and around ice planets in red systems that no man has ever seen and lived to tell about.

If I only had your courage to go explore these new unknown frontiers of the galaxy. Let the warriors and Thargoids be left behind as our brave explorers go into the dark red and examine the hidden secrets of the depths. The abyss of the unseen. I have heard rumors that would freeze your spine into a tingle and your hairs on your neck rise before even a syllable has been uttered. Yes, that is how mysterious and interesting the red fields of stars can be. To our ships!
 

varonica

varonica

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
varonica said:
Which will increase as the galaxy ages because dwarfs last longer than any other stars, and as they burn out the proportion of dwarf stars to other star types will increase until only dwarf stars are left not just in the galaxy but the entire universe.
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And this just goes to show that red dwarves shall end up ruling the Galaxy if not the universe itself.
:cool: (y)
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
varonica said:
T Tauri stars, which are often reddish, are actually young stars in the process of collapse, the gravitational forces at the center of T Tauri stars haven't really got the the stage of causing a full fusion reaction.
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This is one of the reasons why some of us explorers refer to the "T" as to imply it means that you're coming to a "Troll" star. :sneaky:

If you didn't check the chart on your way, or look at the notice up in the information section of your heads up display and you thought you were coming to a fuel star, you just got trolled.
 

Moirai

M
ArchEmperor said:
Yes. I have heard stories. Legends even, of men who gone into the fields of the red stars and disappeared forever. Of immeasurable treasures and unfathomable dangers. Oh, yes. There are things lurking in the deep. Monsters on and around ice planets in red systems that no man has ever seen and lived to tell about.

If I only had your courage to go explore these new unknown frontiers of the galaxy. Let the warriors and Thargoids be left behind as our brave explorers go into the dark red and examine the hidden secrets of the depths. The abyss of the unseen. I have heard rumors that would freeze your spine into a tingle and your hairs on your neck rise before even a syllable has been uttered. Yes, that is how mysterious and interesting the red fields of stars can be. To our ships!
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I remember stopping off on a ice moon with a tenuous atmosphere in a carbon star system a few months back whilst exploring. There were these odd cubic ruins all over the sides of one of the mountains there and, close by, an abandoned DBX. I would have investigated further, but the odd noises coming from the dark openings in the ruins were a bit off putting, so I left... :cautious:
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Moirai said:
I remember stopping off on a ice moon with a tenuous atmosphere in a carbon star system a few months back whilst exploring. There were these odd cubic ruins all over the sides of one of the mountains there and, close by, an abandoned DBX. I would have investigated further, but the odd noises coming from the dark openings in the ruins were a bit off putting, so I left... :cautious:
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Wait! An ice Moon you say? Carbon star you say? Cubic ruins you say? And all over the side of one of the mountains? Do you remember where that was? It sounds like the entrance to the hidden land of Raxxla.
 
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