Star Lighting

I love it just the way it is. I hope they don't tone it down at all. It's really interesting and makes the space stuff in me be all excited to think about stuff like that. Even if it is pretty much completely realistically impossible.

It's still a really cool concept though. I really like the idea of "what is it like to go to a planet right next to a red giant" even though you'd pretty much die but STILL. It's legit. This is one of this tiny features that gets me all excited.

 

The colour of a star is determined by the concentrations of the elements that are undergoing fusion/fission, and usually only the lighter elements are present in large concentrations; like helium and hydrogen.
As far as I'm aware, the only elements that burn green are heavier elements such as copper. These would fission down to the lighter ones very quickly under the pressure and heat of a star, so you would only get green for the brief moment.

 

science is neat.

So is fiction too. I like how Starbound mixs between real science and not real stuff. I'd hope to see a giant green star even if its not really plausible. or is it? I don't know. I'm bad at science. That's why its neat.

 

I like this addition and I think it could really be one of those elements that could make your new planets discoveries feel really 'new'

Imagine spending some game hours on a planet like the one in the screenshot, with its unique shade of lighting and then move to a new one, further from the stars.
Even similar biomes will look completely different and re-fresh the sense of wonder!

Just my first thought when I read the news.

 

Every game with any science fiction mixes between real science and not real stuff...

 

Think imbalanced gravity. I dunno if it's possible, but think that the planet you are on is like a figure 8 race track

 

I want green starts too, and purple. Remember Master of Orion (the first one)

 

Its a good thing indeed however i think it is way too red.. Also red stars arent literally emitting light wich is that red..

 

No, just no... No colored stars, only the realistic ones.

 

Green and purple stars are impossible. Yeah, I do remember MOO and Star Control, do play them both from time to time, and green/purple stars there are cringeworthy for anyone with rudimentary knowledge of physics. And no, it does not makes sense to have "wacky and funny colored" stars in a game with walking flowers and medieval robots, because while it is debatable how plausible these species are, they are obviously interesting and fun enough to make it possible to suspend disbelief. Green stars, on the other hand, are not.



If we are having green stars, then why not have some worlds on backs of elephants standing on a turtle? Both assumptions, green stars and flat planets, are obviously wrong in the context of sci-fi game. It is really good idea to conform to known scientific details and not to make ridiculous (and completely unnecessary) elements of a game definitely wrong and laughable for each and every person with small knowledge of related field. Oh, and there are a lot of us among the people interested in this game.

Reading material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification

 

Ooh, i can feel the condescension there. ooh and a wiki reference to boot.

If you're going to quote me, at least keep it light hearted, non-serious....and no wiki references. Copying a link from somebody elses hard work to score 'brainiac' points isn't cool, it's actually pretty weak.

 

That's your opinion. I have participated in some very fantastical stories and scenarios in my time and I don't really need the structure grounded in scientific fact. While I see how it can help I know many people don't require or see it as beneficial. But as I stated before to each their own it's good to see passion for the game in some form either way.

 

"make it realistic" says the talking bird

 

You know nothing jon snow

 

Why are we arguing over the realism of a detail like that ? there's already talking fish/birdies and even plant and there's gonna be a crapton of other elements that dont make sense in hard science anyway.
Why would a green/purple/blue colored star matters anyway or that said star emits light of its color ?
Its just a game, its meant to be fun and stars of multiple color just look cool.

I say the effect should be dependant on how close to the star the planet is and maybe even require Hazmat suits if the planet is too close or has too thin of an atmosphere.
I dont know for the hard-science folk, but personally, walking on a planet in my hazmat suit, drowned in a creepy red hue under the constant danger of dying from radiation poisoning just sounds cool

 

No, no, no, no, no.
Aside from being ugly, green and purple stars do not exist. Talking fish/birdies and even plant CAN exist, purple/green stars cannot. It's science, and it's a sci-fi game.
Sky may even get purple on red star planets' sunsets.
Anyway if you choose to murder science PLEASE not green stars, maybe brown, but not green.

 

Green stars = stars surrounded by an emission cloud.

Also nebular stars. (I know, extremely unlikely that they would have planets: but nuts to that, this is a game.)

 

You did read the post I was responding to that said the colour of the star doesn't affect the colour of the planet right?

I never said that part wasn't true.

I never mentioned a cutoff, I said peak. And for many stars that peak IS within the visible spectrum. And that's no coincidence, our star is in the middle to low end in photosphere temperature at 5778K and "Massive main sequence stars can have surface temperatures of 50,000 K. Smaller stars such as the Sun have surface temperatures of a few thousand K. Red giants have relatively low surface temperatures of about 3,600 K" and our eyes are adapted to be most sensitive around our star's peak. See inside the spoiler bellow.

That graphic is taken from http://io9.com/5974764/why-youll-never-see-a-green-star-but-an-alien-might btw, good read.
So the peak will be within the visible spectrum if the star is at a temperature between about 4100K and 7300K. Even if the peak is outside the visible spectrum the falloff on either side of the peak controls the colour of the star. Bellow 4000K most of the visible light emited is red and above 7300K most is blue. Hence the colour of the stars.

 

I said realistic stars, not personages. L2R If you want to hangout that guy I can do it aswell

 

You're one of those folks that got all in a huff about Charlize Theron's line about "a billion miles from Earth" in Prometheus, aren't you?