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Hornblower
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"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
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DoctorOfSpace
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Hornblower, some day a multiplayer mode will be implemented and it will be awesome.
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Quando omni flunkus, moritati
Quando omni flunkus, moritati
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Bran Noircorbac
Space Tourist
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hobosullivan
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That's a nice volcano. Mine are always so bland and uniform. Yours has snow!
Here's a planet I found. I call it the Poison Sea: it's a temperate oceania. Its atmospheric pressure is 0.12 atmospheres. Its atmosphere is composed of (in order of percentage): hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and acetylene. So we have a planet that reeks like rotten eggs with an ocean made of polluted ammonia window cleaner!
But hey, at least it has nice blood-red sunsets!
Here's a planet I found. I call it the Poison Sea: it's a temperate oceania. Its atmospheric pressure is 0.12 atmospheres. Its atmosphere is composed of (in order of percentage): hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and acetylene. So we have a planet that reeks like rotten eggs with an ocean made of polluted ammonia window cleaner!
But hey, at least it has nice blood-red sunsets!
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SpaceHopper
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Hornblower, that sun with all those comets/evaporating planets you posted a page back...where did you find it?
The Genius Prayer: "God grant me the courage to change the things I cannot accept, serenity to accept the things I've changed and the wisdom to know I'm different."
Golden Rule: Do unto others before they get wind of it and do it unto you.
Golden Rule: Do unto others before they get wind of it and do it unto you.
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hobosullivan
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I think IC 1101 is my favorite galaxy in Space Engine (even though I usually prefer cool procedurally-generated stuff). It's got such an enormous central black hole that you can find things like RSC 10389-10378-4-2706-294 6, a very hot (>200 C) terra with a thick (> 1000 atm) atmosphere, and multicellular life on land and in the water. Lovely view of that accretion disk!
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Wow! What mods/addons are you using for the buildings? I haven't seen that before.scr00014.jpg
Edit: Nevermind, I think I found it. Is it Ettore_BilBo's?
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Angelica Pickles
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Yep its Ettore's brilliant models + has got lots and lots of 3d models, space stations/ships from EVE & the X series too.Wow! What mods/addons are you using for the buildings? I haven't seen that before.
Edit: Nevermind, I think I found it. Is it Ettore_BilBo's
Remember if you place objects on planets fix them to ground using 'Horizon mode' this kinda of stops them moving about, though they still rotate when u speed up time. Not so much if u place near planets equator.
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Just an interesting discovery I accidentally made; (Apparently) the universe in Space Engine is a square.
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Hornblower
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Insanity, Wrong! It's a cube 
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
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I always have the most fun when I coast around the universe searching for interacting Galaxies.
A few I found today, manually, no cheating using the seach box!
NGC 4438 + 4435
M81 + HO IX
NGC 3455 + 3454
NGC 5544 + 5545
NGC 4889 + 4882
NGC 6050A, B, + C
NGC 969 + 974
NGC 7469 + IC 5283
NGC 541 + 547 + 538
NGC 4015-1 + 2, + 3987
NGC 5474 + M101
KK84 + KKSG18
IC 1259-1 + 2
MB1 + Maffei1
A few I found today, manually, no cheating using the seach box!
NGC 4438 + 4435
M81 + HO IX
NGC 3455 + 3454
NGC 5544 + 5545
NGC 4889 + 4882
NGC 6050A, B, + C
NGC 969 + 974
NGC 7469 + IC 5283
NGC 541 + 547 + 538
NGC 4015-1 + 2, + 3987
NGC 5474 + M101
KK84 + KKSG18
IC 1259-1 + 2
MB1 + Maffei1
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I think this is the farthest galaxy in Space Engine, at a whopping 28.24 Giga Light Years away from the milky way.
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Rigel Kentaurus
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RS 8474-934-8-5446623-100 B3, a tidally lock terra with multicelular life
This terra viewed from it`s moon is truly gigantic
Looking at the sunset, the tidally locked moon and a near gas giant
This terra viewed from it`s moon is truly gigantic
Looking at the sunset, the tidally locked moon and a near gas giant
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