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Welcome to Just About Elite's second community-suggested bounty! Two members independently suggested this idea, so our thanks go to both VoldainHunt and CMDR Henckes. To win a prize, we want you to tell us about your favourite discovery or your craziest discovery. Here's CMDR Henckes:

"It could be a tree star system, a colourful gas planet, or even two earth-like planets orbiting each other. Just share the marvellous things you've found with us!"

If you just tell us about your discovery, you could win one of our 50 $2 rewards. If you include a screenshot or video, you could win one of our 50 $5 rewards instead. If you opt for the latter, be sure to post it via a connected social media account (see the instructions below for a how-to if it's your first time).

Image credit: FireyToad as seen in our Elite Dangerous planet screenshots showcase.

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Created at 12:03pm, 30th September, 2024. Page last updated at 3:28am, 21st October, 2024.
Deadline at 11:00pm, 9th October, 2024.

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Hunter 10/9/2024, 10:56:39 PM

Commander TerminatorHunter, aboard the Spirit, had spent weeks exploring desolate star systems, charting empty, frozen worlds. One such world, designated XJ-1295, seemed like just another barren ice planet. But unusual sensor readings caught CMDRTerminatorHunter’s attention, prompting a closer look.

Landing on the icy surface, they found the landscape desolate—until cresting a ridge, where an incredible sight awaited. A forest of massive, frozen bleu mushroom-like structures stretched out across the icy plains. Their crystalline caps glittered under the dim light of the distant star, each one encased in ice. The entire forest stood eerily still, like statues frozen in time, yet a faint, pulsing glow came from within the mushrooms themselves.

The silence was overwhelming. No wind, no sound, just the frozen stillness of the mushrooms, towering and ancient. CMDRTerminatorHunter moved through the forest cautiously, scanning the structures, but they appeared to be lifeless—an alien species frozen in time, trapped on this barren world.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA68DSEKbu6

Despite the strange beauty, the planet felt empty, devoid of life or warmth. After taking samples and logging the coordinates, TerminatorHunter returned to the Spirit. As they left the planet behind, they couldn’t shake the haunting image of the frozen forest, a reminder that even in the galaxy’s coldest, most desolate places, mysteries still lingered, waiting to be uncovered

Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:30:15 PM

Love the roleplay, this is great.

Hunter 10/10/2024, 5:05:45 PM

thank you , happy you liked the story and there are more to come in the future .

JHenckes 10/9/2024, 9:47:30 PM

Found in some system around Hawking's Gap on my way back of a personal expedition.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA60C-6vsVF

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Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:29:29 PM

Oooh. And what are they JHenckes?

JHenckes 10/10/2024, 4:27:58 PM

At the time I had no idea hahaha, it was by searching for the image on Google that I ended up finding that they are Peduncle Trees. They are organic structures characterized by their branching, as if they were a sea urchin

Alex SinclairMod10/11/2024, 9:01:08 AM

Aha, well now we know! Thanks :D

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Beetlejude 10/9/2024, 9:49:04 PM

Synuefai ZL-O b51-0 is in a skewed orbit which causes it to crash through another body. here's a video describing my experience attempting to land on it.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qupk23YELXc?feature=oembed

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Wotherspoon 10/9/2024, 7:50:40 PM

They may not look like much, but these two tiny planets, which I discovered a few years back, mean a lot to me. They are incredibly close to one another and to their sun. There's plenty more going on in that system, with beautiful ice worlds, interstellar phenomena and some amazing mountains. But these two little planetoids are special.

https://twitter.com/pwotherspoon/status/1844103103387467889

yan57436 10/9/2024, 4:43:07 PM

Another planet that I've found in this travel is the PRUE PRAO CX-S D4-7 6 that is located near to the mid point of the arm, that is a ringed ammonia world.

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Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:27:41 PM

Hi yan57436 - don't forget to verify your media entries via social media first. o7

CMDR Henckes 10/7/2024, 11:08:19 PM

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I the end of the Distant Worlds 2 Expedition, lasting only 80 jumps to the Beagle point. I made this satisfactory discovery along my way, this ringed planet in the SYRIAE THAA XM-W D1-6, it's the 8th planet in this system and have a real interesting rings pattern, with great spaces between each rings and white coloured most of them.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DA1zhJoMrH9

AndyRice 10/7/2024, 1:58:05 PM

I found this planet on my journey to Sagittarius A*. It is a marine planet with a rocky moon, just like our sweet home Earth.

https://twitter.com/andyrice_0726/status/1843288931045191763

CmdrTravisRobicheaux 10/7/2024, 3:28:27 AM

https://twitter.com/WayneT3k/status/1843130978346377691

This photo was taken MANY years ago. I do not remember the coordinates but all I know is its near the center of the map! Discovered it while in a ship named after my son.

Slamscape 10/6/2024, 5:19:07 PM

An interesting system I found while exploring in July, HIP 101504, the 10 ringed wonder. It's a system close to the bubble with 10 rings, including 3 that are over 1 LS across.

https://twitter.com/SlamscapeX/status/1842977580040991059

Osiliran 10/5/2024, 5:36:15 AM

A favourite of mine. Just a nice splash of colours. Notable stellar phenomena can come in several tones that make them love beautiful upon entry.

https://twitter.com/Osiliran/status/1842437723455664542

CMDR_Oso 10/5/2024, 5:27:36 AM

I've been to many areas of the Elite Galaxy, from Colonia, to Formidine and Elysian Shore, and out to The Veils. But the awe and uplift I get from being at Mitterland Hollow, there is no other. It's a well known site now, and take care landing on New Africa's moon, but I always end up returning. Make sure you CMDRs visit.
(Not wanting to spoil anything for 1st time visitors, but this video is shot in real time, no adjustment!)

https://twitter.com/CmdrOso/status/1842433249022546318

LiquidMorkite 10/4/2024, 9:34:29 PM

I always find it amusing every time I run into a system with a white dwarf, or even better, neutron star (200ly jump? Sign me in!).

https://twitter.com/ntcdat/status/1842315071977898478

First discovery was inside the Bubble, just casually travelling around the systems when I ran by this:

blurred background — This was in LHS 6309, a system in the Bubble, with the white dwarf extremely close to the sun

This was in LHS 6309, a system in the Bubble, with the white dwarf extremely close to the sun

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Found out LHS 6309 is a crazily huge system with 5 stars (including the white dwarf)

Second one was out there in the dark, can't remember the system's name, but the neutron has a huge huge cone.

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mastercesspit 10/5/2024, 4:37:28 AM

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my DBX record, 298ly from a neutron boost

Donut 10/4/2024, 12:58:02 PM

I found this tube like growth that changes color depending on how the light hits it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1ZxgthOXaQ

USCSS 10/3/2024, 8:10:14 PM

My Favorite Discovery: The “Green and Black” Station
The “Green and Black” station is one of the most impressive I have encountered in my travels through the Elite Dangerous galaxy. Its unique design and strategic location make it a point of interest for merchants and explorers alike. The station is decorated with green and black lights, creating a futuristic and mysterious atmosphere. The view from the station was simply spectacular. In addition, near the “Green and Black” station there is an impressive black hole. This cosmic phenomenon adds a touch of mystery and adventure to the region.
https://twitter.com/USCSS141477/status/1841929972245791126

https://twitter.com/USCSS141477/status/1841933646204436666

Evoflash 10/3/2024, 2:48:39 PM

I'll add a few discoveries here.

My first and finest is the Tourist Beacon Location - "The Holy Twins", two binary ringed Earthlikes orbiting a Neutron Star. A miracle system in the truest sense. My only wish would be that the two planets were closer to each other.

https://twitter.com/CmdrEvoflash/status/1841851904881459614

Donut 10/4/2024, 3:06:30 PM

Thanks for including the location, I'ma have to check this out myself.

Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:21:42 PM

Stunning!

Block9 10/3/2024, 9:14:07 AM

https://twitter.com/r66680314/status/1841768411799466241

I understand that what I'm about to say might seem really obvious, but when I flew near a neutron star and discovered that it could supercharge the Frame Shift Drive, I genuinely felt like I had found something very important. At the time, I was new to the game and didn’t know that these types of stars could do that. However, now I always try to pass by a neutron star to optimize my jumps. Like I said, it might seem silly and obvious, but for me, it was a huge discovery because neither I nor my friend knew about it.

Gadnok 10/3/2024, 4:08:09 AM

Three years ago I discovered this amazingly textured icy ringed world with an oxygen atmosphere, and it remains my second most viewed Elite video ever. Note this discovery was after Update 6, freshly into Odyssey, so the distant sheets of ice and mountains outside the crater were brand new and jaw dropping sites to this weary explorer!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9ezWFflISI0?feature=oembed

Matt G 10/2/2024, 3:03:39 PM

This is Rhuedgau FG-Y g104. It is a black hole system but it contains a ringed class M star which is rare in itself, but this particular ring is also very dense which makes for some fantastic screenshots.

https://twitter.com/CMDR_MattG/status/1841493337573855301

Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:20:38 PM

Amazing shot!

XCezor 10/2/2024, 2:57:49 PM

It's my very first screenshot from this game, including the first encounter with a White Dwarf star. I was flying without any specific goal through the systems, and that big, beautiful blue star appeared on my screen.

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https://twitter.com/XCezorr/status/1841492306442043716

BoomerMod10/2/2024, 3:02:28 PM

That seems like it would be equal parts awesome and terrifying! 😱

Anything like that, black holes, quasar etc. 😅

MQC 10/1/2024, 2:43:27 PM

Traveling away from the bubble, heading to Colonia, to the roof of the Milky Way, or to the unknown, is often accompanied by great and precious discoveries... but if ED has taught me anything, it's that you can also find beautiful things “next door”.

On an ordinary day, doing a delivery mission, after finishing delivering the goods to the destination spaceport, I looked at the list of POIs in the system and saw something that really caught my attention:

KUN-080 Amaethon-class Cropper

I approached the POI to discover this wonder:

https://twitter.com/MaquinaMQC/status/1841125966162047023

The Amaethon-class Cropper is a type of Agricultural Vessel. This Megaship, as well as many others, were introduced in the Elite Dangerous: Horizons update “The Commanders” in April 2017.

When I first encountered one of these immense ships and took these screenshots it was in the beginning of the year 2020... 2 and a half years after its in-game release.

Why I had never encountered or looked for these Megaships before, I don't know, probably because I don't usually do the missions related to the gameplay associated with them, or because I hadn't paid enough attention to the POIs present in the star systems I was visiting.

But the reality is that I was blown away, not only by how amazing the Megaship was, but how alive, how logical, how real everything seemed by its mere presence.

I know it may not seem much, but for me it was a real and wonderful discovery... that curiously I had been very close for a long time and I had never seen it.

Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:19:50 PM

Excellent.

AlvarZ4 10/1/2024, 1:11:16 PM

English:
My favorite discovery is the planet Vulcan. Many years ago I went through the LHS 3006 system and found Vulcan there and a little nod to Spock with the Leonard Nimoy Station. It's lovely to find these details in games, especially when you get such beautiful images like these. I just need the planet to have an atmosphere to be perfect.
Español:
Mi descubrimiento favorito es el planeta Vulcano, hace muchos año pasé por el sistema LHS 3006 y encontré Vulcano en él y un pequeño guiño a Spock con la estación Leonard Nimoy. Es precioso encontrar estos detalles en juegos sobre todo cuando se sacan imágenes tan bonitas como estas, solo me falta que el planeta tuviera atmósfera para ser perfecto.

https://twitter.com/alvar_z4/status/1841102230251811095

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Ilyssoll 10/1/2024, 12:12:24 PM

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Whilst on my daily exploration, came across my very first form of life other than bacterium. Seemed as if I was in a star trek episode boldly going where no man has gone before. im about 3k ly from the bubble and decided to land on this desolate ice moon about 12 minutes from the main star. Worthy of the first footfall and well worth the time. a fungoid plant that thrives in the cold nether of space and was hard to spot as most of its kind was scattered across the moon.

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Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 1:18:34 PM

Hi Ilyssoll - great entry. We've awarded it, but do check the format, rules, and guidance section on how to submit to media bounties, otherwise you might miss out next time. o7

mastercesspit 9/30/2024, 10:57:25 PM

i've discovered many things in elite dangerous, on my way to colonia i started by going down way past witch head, and then took a wandering path there, first to discover and map many systems, in my early days on xbox, i went straight up from the bubble about 5k ly and put my name on many systems, but my favourite discovery is only 490ly out, my core mining heaven, core mining is no longer the money pot it once was in the game, but i like to go blow things up, it relaxes me, :)
have fun 07

LiquidMorkite 10/4/2024, 8:14:20 PM

That's a lot of overlap hotspots! Though I don't know if that means anything nowadays, someone told me that it doesn't work the same, but I have no idea. Still, love core mining!

mastercesspit 10/4/2024, 9:18:35 PM

it works, i'm afraid your friend is mistaken, i discovered a double platinum hotspot about 10 ly away, so when i get bored with beam mining, i go blow up rocks

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200 an hour platinum hotspot

LiquidMorkite 10/4/2024, 9:29:50 PM

I know it works though, just curious how would overlapped hotspots work :D I've been jumping into some overlapped as well

mastercesspit 10/4/2024, 9:39:29 PM

if you're in the bubble it's probably played out, pristine is the go, i don't mine in the bubble for that reason, just a waste of time, you gotta work smart, not hard. ;)

LiquidMorkite 10/4/2024, 9:56:09 PM

I see, gotta study more about this then :) didn't know pristine had to do with this. But what's holding me back is that I don't have yet a fleet carrier to travel back to sell the minerals

mastercesspit 10/4/2024, 10:55:52 PM

bugger, that's no good, it's hard now, i got my first fleet carrier in the painite boom, a long time ago, painite reached 1.1 million a unit, had a double painite overlap, so i mined 12 hours a day for 2 weeks storing it on my friends carrier that i helped him acquire, getting 8k painite, i tried to get a mining expedition going here, but i've had no takers, so i jumped out to my platinum hotspot this morning, just doing a vid now, i pay 250k a unit for plat if anyone joins me

mastercesspit 10/4/2024, 11:07:10 PM

hit me up if you want to go mining, i'll set the market for plat and change docking access,

LiquidMorkite 10/5/2024, 10:43:23 AM

Roger, add me ingame Liquid Morkite and lemme know where you dock your carrier

mastercesspit 10/5/2024, 9:15:58 PM

sent in game friend request,

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1 billion in platinum set in market

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saelishi

https://discord.gg/6RaKE9YK

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LiquidMorkite 10/5/2024, 10:52:43 PM

Roger that, thank you cmdr o7

Cannot promise that I can do the mining every day but I do take one session or two per week for some mining for sure.

mastercesspit 10/5/2024, 11:48:18 PM

When your ready, i'll be hunting elites in hazres in saelishi.

LiquidMorkite 10/6/2024, 5:14:46 AM

Roger that, I'll be doing some Imperial rank grind in Ngalinn which is near by, hopefully I'll get the Cutter in a couple of days so I can haul more minerals :) meanwhile doing it in my Python

mastercesspit 10/10/2024, 2:11:32 AM

https://discord.gg/6RaKE9YK

CMDR_Oso 10/5/2024, 1:41:13 AM

Overlaps are overrated, they used to be good and a lot of outdated information still says they are still ok, but they were nerfed. They still give a small bonus but not as much as they used to. See below.

More importantly - not all rings are the same - and this has more of an effect on yield than overlaps.

For example, a single hotspot in a good ring has a better yield than a overlapping hotspot in a bad ring.
TLDR; Care about the average yield...see the Platinum Hotspot Survey , anything >20% is good. And thank the work done by Elite players who contributed to this (of which I am one).

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mastercesspit 10/5/2024, 9:28:10 PM

i remember the nerfing, most people gave up, some found new sites away from the bubble, but a good double in a good ring pays well, been farming the double plat and the core system for years now, always a good yield, musta been awesome before the nerfing

mastercesspit 10/6/2024, 12:55:29 AM

the proof of the pudding is in the eating i suppose, i started a vid when i dropped in, and stopped it when i reached 100 plat. 26.45 min, in a t10, not the fastest speed miner, if i were selling to my carrier @250,000, that'd be 25 million. not to bad for a half hour of relaxation.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z0ueVtdoJwk?feature=oembed

have fun, 07

CMDR_Oso 10/6/2024, 2:36:24 AM

Pretty good form most of the time (keeping your nose down I mean)!
You can try using the Mining Analyzer to give you survey percentages if you like data.

mastercesspit 10/6/2024, 10:56:06 AM

that ring shouldn't work, so the mining analiser said back then, it does though, i don't use those, i scan the ring and do test runs, its a bit like cariolis, not very accuate i think

CmdrTravisRobicheaux 10/7/2024, 3:24:42 AM

I AM ON MY WAY! lol

mastercesspit 10/7/2024, 4:30:23 AM

CmdrTravisRobicheaux

Lol, discord for comms, add me ingame,

CmdrTravisRobicheaux 10/7/2024, 3:14:28 PM

Same name ?

mastercesspit 10/7/2024, 8:27:55 PM

CmdrTravisRobicheaux

Yep

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danyrr03 10/1/2024, 1:20:04 PM

plants planets

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mining — planets

Alex SinclairMod10/1/2024, 1:26:58 PM

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Imperial Senator Bluecrash 10/7/2024, 4:58:58 AM

Raxxla doc: The oldest thing in the game that has been there since release.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Jm4NRUUihPU?feature=oembed
video 1

https://www.youtube.com/embed/v4v-MkbDQbo?feature=oembed

video 2

Alex SinclairMod10/8/2024, 8:26:10 AM

Imperial Senator Bluecrash

Hey Imperial Senator Bluecrash, hope you're doing okay. Those YouTube videos aren't showing; they're giving a warning that the account has been deleted. o7

RicZA 10/9/2024, 8:33:46 PM

Question. Not going to finish my submission in time, gathering footage took longer than id thought. Id like to post regardless (even though it would have closed). Would you still get value from it?

Alex SinclairMod10/10/2024, 8:30:49 AM

Absolutely :) I think especially with a bounty like this people will be always want to read it. You could post it here and/or in the main feed

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