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Exoplanets
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 2:52 am
by gonzo
Some stuff on planets orbiting other stars.
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet
I'm intrigued by using real stars and planets (maybe in a mod) and just fill in with other objects as needed.
Re: Exoplanets
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 4:41 am
by loki1950
From a few radio features on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks" some of the newer experimental methods will soon be revealing a veritable flood of exoplanents
Enjoy the Choice
Re: Exoplanets
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 5:24 am
by ezee
I'm intrigued by using real stars and planets (maybe in a mod) and just fill in with other objects as needed.
Use of .csv of catalogs of stars make that possible .
But in Vegastrike i believe that the universe is actually only randomly created via a python
script .
It is something that i'd like to implement too .
Re: Exoplanets
Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 3:32 pm
by gonzo
loki1950 wrote:From a few radio features on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks" some of the newer experimental methods will soon be revealing a veritable flood of exoplanents
Here's one story in Quirks & Quarks on exoplanets:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-q ... -1.2895640
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in 2018 and ESO is building a monster telescope in Chile that will be in operation some ten years from now. ~2025.
There'll be some pretty cool pics coming in.
Actual picture of an exoplanet (Infrared, red dot)
