I've added 46 new "interstellar stars" to the addon. Now there are 74 catalogued stars around the Milky Way, 25 of them beyond 400.000 light years in distance. This is still a small number, but it has been predicted that thousands of them might be discovered in the first 3 years of LSST su...

Those are some crazy skills Phunnie, congratulations. Really well done.

31163 What is the structure of the interstellar medium on a galactic scale? In maps I've seen, the interstellar medium typically forms a shell around the sun a few hundred lightyears away. This is a fascinating and very complicated topic. I wanted to create a separate topic in the forum since last ...

31169 Apollo-11 landing site added to "Surfaces of celestial bodies". Thank you Klud! Is seems that the king is really back at it. I'm wondering if you have a list of possible surface detail patches for the future. Also I think we would all be very very enthusiastic about a tutorial or ex...

31122 There is something important and abundant in the universe missing in space engine. It's newborn solar system! Space Engine needs to develope a good ray-tracing algorithm to make this realistic enought since protoplanetary disks are extremely complex objects that shadow themselves in different...

30982 the initial idea was to implement a procedural augmentation Yes that was also a proposal. Both ideas are compatible as long as they operate in different resolution regimes. From longer distances to closer ones: ⋅  Default SE planet textures (currently on SE) [~ 5 km/pixel - 0.5 km/p...

Now that we are having texture updates for the Solar System I would like to remind about an old discussion we had on the possibility to extend the level of detail further and further. If I recall correctly SpaceEngineer thought of a solution, similar to that of Google Earth, involving the centralize...

30970 New update is 11 GB, sorry for that :) http://spaceengine.org/news/blog190802/ This is so beautifull Vladimir. I will always be amazed by the amount of intelligence, work and care you put on this project. My instinct in each update is to jump and say again and again how spectacular work you h...

30786 Why is the simulation of the evolution of galaxies and stars labeled uncertain if possible? Because stellar and galactic evolution is an extremely complex thing to simulate (requiring supercomputers in general) and the variety of results (many kinds of stars and galaxies out there) is so larg...

EDIT: Dammit! I've been flashed by Watsisname once again :lol: :lol: _________________________________________________________________ I am definitely not an expert in the field but I think it might have to do with how the exhaust expands in the exit of the engine nozzle. Under sea level pressure t...

It looks pretty much confirmed now. HKATER , if this is what you saw then it is indeed the Chandrayaan-2 mission according to Prof. Jonti Horner . It was an engine burn to start the climb to the Moon . I envy you HKATER, that is an awesome sight. Maximum neatness. The light you are seeing is a combi...

SHORT ANWER: You have probably witnessed the launch of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft (the last stages of the launch litted by the Sun). The Indian spacecraft is headed towards the Moon and carries a Lander and a Rover for the Lunar South Pole! https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/spacecraft/...

30229 Cant we determine the 3D position of any star for which we know the distance to?  Like for example, the Tycho catalogue. If you just know the distance and direction it is from Earth can you not plot its 3D position by placing the Earth at the center of a navigation grid?  You should be able t...

29301 Yes, I quite agree with you and like Carl Sagan once said, "Exceptional theories require exceptional evidence." Today this video was uploaded to youtube PLyEO0jNt6M In my opinion this is a very consistent way of analyzing the problem. The most clear "UFO evidence" is proba...

30037 galaxy distribution looks to even, lacks void size Expand on this please. Galactic stellar distribution seems right to me. Between spiral arms there are no voids just less density of massive stars. 30038 Would it be complicated to add all cataloged stars? What do you mean by all catalogued st...