Thought it was a gas giant, but...

omega9380

omega9380
So, I'm in my DB Explorer, out and about 4000ly from civilization, and I saw something I never seen (The whole idea around exploring :D). I did my space fart and checked my system map. I scan right down the line, made MUCH easier by being able to select planets in the sysmap. I clicked on what I thought was just another ringed gas giant. Much to my surprise, it turns out to be a Y class brown dwarf STAR! Right in the middle of the system, complete with rings! This is the first time I've seen a star laid out in the sysmap like a planet. I thought it was pretty cool.

Had to get some screenies, enjoy!

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Winterwalker

Winterwalker
Thanks for showing a little love to the explorer's trip, the Brown Dwarf .. (and repped)

Because they fall in stellar classification, it's easy to think of these guys as "not very good stars,"
Stars that, if you meet one on a programmed route, can quickly throw a spanner in your fuel consumption plans!

But Brown Dwarves are not the runt of the star family, they are the King .. of the planets ... !!! :D

Y-class temperature may be as low as the human body.

Mass can range from 13 to 90 times Jupiter, about a tenth that of the sun.

For a star that's pretty small, for a planet it's HUGE.

http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/astro160/papers/brown_dwarfs_failed_stars.pdf
 
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Sherpa

Sherpa
Yeah, there's more than a few systems out there like that - seen several on my current Sag A* round trip. I remember the first one I came across a couple months ago -- tons of dwarfs and just the one gas giant.

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certhas

certhas
Its pretty common, you'll gonna find a lot of systems like that one, even with 2,3 or more dwarfs orbiting its main star.
(i hate dwarfs as main star, most scary thing to jump onto...)
 

Krunchie

Krunchie
And sometimes they have other stars orbiting them like moons. That's cool.

Like in Sherpa's pic.
 
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dannywhac

dannywhac
Yeah they don't get enough love - you get some crackers moons on them as well sometimes. @ OP - there's a ringed Water World (Argon/Water/CO2) as the 4th moon on your Y Dwarf - nice :)
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Winterwalker said:
Thanks for showing a little love to the explorer's trip, the Brown Dwarf .. (and repped)

Because they fall in stellar classification, it's easy to think of these guys as "not very good stars,"
Stars that, if you meet one on a programmed route, can quickly throw a spanner in your fuel consumption plans!

But Brown Dwarves are not the runt of the star family, they are the King .. of the planets ... !!!
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And they'll still be here when the rest of the stars have popped and buggered off.

They'll have the last laugh.
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
omega9380 said:
So, I'm in my DB Explorer, out and about 4000ly from civilization, and I saw something I never seen (The whole idea around exploring :D). I did my space fart and checked my system map. I scan right down the line, made MUCH easier by being able to select planets in the sysmap. I clicked on what I thought was just another ringed gas giant. Much to my surprise, it turns out to be a Y class brown dwarf STAR! Right in the middle of the system, complete with rings! This is the first time I've seen a star laid out in the sysmap like a planet. I thought it was pretty cool.
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Awesome discovery!! but as pointed by others, these are relatively common. Moreover, you will also find T-Tauri Stars being treated as planet by a ruling Main Stellar Object in many system. You will also see many of the brown dwarfs having rings, like yours, or accretion disks, like this pic by Zelos :

Zelos1983 said:
Nice!

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I found one that has rings, and it's orbiting a slightly bigger star (approx 700LS out in the background)
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You can tell the difference because the game depicts accretion disks as if they were rings, just that the innermost one is sooo close to the star that it falls within its gravity well yellow limit, indicating that material is constantly falling into the star. I bet that the star was spinning fast, and so was the disk...
 

clivewil

clivewil
there's one of those very local somewhere - i forget where - that has a RES in the rings. i couldn't understand why my usually-reliable little hunting ship would overheat every time i pressed the fire button, or boosted, or if i did anything at all other than just sit there. and then i noticed the ambient temperature - about 68% instead of the typical 34% - and then it clicked. silly me, that's not a planet.
 
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