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yan57436's avatar

"A white dwarf, aka explorers killer

one of the white dwarf or neutron stars that I've found along my expeditions"

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBrm-v6x0UJ

mypets's avatar

A white dwarf pulsar that I've found travelling through the Bubble

https://twitter.com/dudu117099/status/1850882399174815873

LiquidMorkite's avatar
https://twitter.com/ntcdat/status/1850776856942776330

I was outfitting a Beluga Explorer, but didn't know where to go. Then my squadmate told me about Thor's Eye. It's a blackhole about 2000-3000ly from the bubble. My first time visit on a Black Hole, really thought I would get sucked in and die, but thanks to our advanced technology, I could get close enough to take some pictures without risking my life (and all the scan data). It's a pretty cool system to visit, and it's not too far. The main star which is a massive O-class star adds a little of flavor to the view when you look at both the black hole and the main star from certain angle.

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I have a few printscreens of pulsars, but this is undoubtedly the most beautiful I've ever taken of one...

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

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Look at the spiral! That's the first time i've seen one like this!

JHenckes's avatar

It was the first time I saw it too, and I was delighted!

Osiliran's avatar

Black holes in Elite look absolutely beautiful at just the right angles. My favourite picture, taken recently too, is of a Type-8 explorer on its way to the Carina Nebula. The lensing effect makes it look like a worm hole is opening up to allow the pilot to cover even greater distances. Exploration really gets the imagination firing. My bounty entry is the first picture of a distant Type-8 heading into the black hole. The second picture I fell in love with too and wanted to share for anyone interested. Lots of symmertry in shapes, but some asymmetry in colour.

https://twitter.com/Osiliran/status/1850518019258392693

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These Neutron Stars are part of a highway I used on my journey to the Statue of Liberty Nebula. The last one is one of those intense Neutron Stars with wild, trembling jets, orbited by a Red Dwarf.

https://twitter.com/DydoJustAbout/status/1850208681117253932

Odinoji's avatar

hi im new i posted the pic on my twitterx :) good luck everyone o7

https://twitter.com/OdinOji/status/1849896410042318987

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https://twitter.com/saa797939985670/status/1842293408544788908

It is "world of death",a very popular but horrible place,the planet is so close to the pulsar

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In this image I tried to capture one important aspect of neutron stars: Their density. Because they are so dense (apart from black holes they are the densest matter known to us at this time) they can bend light around them visibly. This leads to our neutron star of choice (Col 69 Sector LC-V E2-7 A) which is halfway between the bubble and Barnard's Loop bending the light from the extragalactic nebula we placed behind it, leading to visible rings around the star.

I have also included several other objects to tell the story of stars: Birth, death, decay. Stellar formation in compacted hydrogen nebulae, stellar death in beautiful large rings of ejected atmospheric shells, and decay of an old stellar corpse, draining its energy.

I have taken the time to annotate all the objects of interest in this picture (this can be seen in the second image). My Asp Explorer shields the camera from much of the stellar radiation, otherwise the background would be far less visible due to the stellar brightness.

A few fun facts about neutron stars:

  • Neutron stars were once regular stars but collapsed after the end of nuclear fusion in said star. The neutron star is in essence the corpse of a star.

  • They no longer undergo nuclear fusion, the driving factor behind the radiation of regular stars. All the radiation they emit stems from the energy left in the star from its supernova phase. It's just radiating all the heat it has until it slowly cools down and becomes less and less bright.

  • Due to the pirouette effect, the angular momentum of the original star is largely preserved in the neutron star. But because the neutron star is much much smaller, it has to spin a lot faster. This can lead to particles near the equator moving up to 40% the speed of light!

  • While regular stars are kept from collapsing by radiation pressure, this pressure largely vanishes with the end of fusion. This leads to the collapse and supernova in the first place and then lets the star collapse into a neutron star. The neutron star is then stopped from collapsing into a black hole by the Pauli exclusion principle, which would take a lot force to overcome.

  • Neutron stars may seem huge in game and irl, but they can be about 40km in diameter, roughly the same size as London (or 1/200,000 [one two-hundred thousandsth] the volume of Pluto)

And some fun facts about other objects visible here:

  • Messier 76 (also called Little Dumbbell Nebula) is a planetary nebula that is comprised of different shells ejected by a star at the end of its lifetime. The star then became a white dwarf, a fate similar to that of neutron star but reserved for less massive stars.

  • Messier put together his catalogue because he wanted to observe comets and found himself distracted by the same faint objects over and over. So he published the catalogue to sort out the junk he was not interested in. That junk can be anything from nebulae to galaxies and stellar clusters and is a rich and fascinating ressource to look through!

  • Barnard's loop is also thought to be the remnant of a supernova, this one ejecting its shell much further by now. Visible here is only the glowing and illuminated part, the infrared visible part would likely fill the whole image.

  • The Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977) is thought to be illuminated by one single young star. In that sense it fits very well with the Orion Nebula (M 42) behind it, which is a diffuse nebula hosting several young stars that have formed from its mass.

This means that the image is largely split in two by the neutron star jet: To the left we see the remnants of stars gone by, ejecting their shells and leaving behind beautiful spheres. In the middle we see such a stellar corpse still ejecting energy, slowly draining away. And to the right we see the birthplaces of new stars that will in time too stop their fusion and explode into beautiful arrangements.

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

Niceygy's avatar
https://twitter.com/Niceygy_/status/1848340571389104316

(That's the system where the Rescue megaships for shinrata are)

Evoflash's avatar

Neutrons - terrifying that first time but with practice can be fun to ride the waves. EVA not advised.

https://twitter.com/CmdrEvoflash/status/1848094902065766466

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Pulsars or Neutron stars in ED and the central black hole at the center of the galaxy.
@elitedangerous @justaboutcommunity #JustAbout

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBOopudNwz2

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Out exploring so it wasn't too difficult to find some pulsars to take photos of.

https://twitter.com/miketuppen/status/1847120699691094122

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Here are my records of a pulsar near another star in Scheau Flyi LR-W e1-4983 and the Sagittarius A* huge black hole:

https://twitter.com/dt_os_ch/status/1846730951851749622

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https://twitter.com/Cmdr_nailz_/status/1846933397291024396

My fleet carrier seemingly hangs in space in front of a beautiful pulsar.

RicZA's avatar

https://twitter.com/CMDR_RicZA/status/1846662971407130829

Block9's avatar
https://twitter.com/r66680314/status/1846637326505857500

I was just walking around and, incredibly, I found this neutron star!

I'm also taking advantage of the opportunity to create more videos for my channel and I think this neutron star will look perfect in my new video too haha

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https://twitter.com/alecturner/status/1846550921913724965

In the Spoihaae XE-X d2-9 system (out towards Colonia) you'll find the so-called "World of Death", a landable planet which passes right through the cone of a white dwarf star. Landing (and leaving) can be tricky as you have to pick your moment carefully or else get caught in the jet cone and almost certainly be consumed by it, but for the daring commander willing to attempt it, the view from the surface, as the star first bends light at the horizon and then rapidly rises up and shoots overhead, is second to none.

You can read more about this in the journal I kept about my journey to Colonia.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/going-to-colonia.558244/

Donut's avatar

A snapshot of my first trip to Sagittarius A*.

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

XCezor's avatar

What needs a massive body that absorbs enormous amount of energy? More energy!!!

Picture taken in MAIA system, near MAIA Black Hole tourist beacon and the black hole itself. As those objects always give me chills, it's amazing to watch how they bend the space and reality

https://twitter.com/XCezorr/status/1846546644881293599

Matt G's avatar
https://twitter.com/CMDR_MattG/status/1846532974658920676


This is an extremely rare ringed neutron star I recently discovered in the system Skombuia AA-A h724.

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‘Current System: Sagittarius A*

Distance from the Solar System: 25,899.99 light years

Distance to Destination (Sagittarius A*): 0 light years

Arrival at the Galactic Core

So, I arrived. The massive, space-warping sphere stood before me. To be honest, it wasn’t as awe-inspiring as I had imagined. In fact, it seemed almost too calm, even lifeless. All you could see was light twisting and shifting around it like a kaleidoscope. This dreamlike spectacle drew me closer and closer until the sharp beeping of overheating warnings snapped me back to reality.

As tranquil as it seemed, this quiet giant’s gravity is undeniably real, pulling in billions of stars within a fifty-thousand-light-year radius of the galaxy, compelling them to rotate around it slowly and eternally.

At least for now, the universe does revolve around me.’

This passage comes from my self-written nav log of my first Core Journey, and original language in Chinese.

https://twitter.com/andyrice_0726/status/1846494490812350608

AndyRice's avatar

Well can you guys see the picture directly on the website? I’ve posted two bounty which seems can not correctly display on this website🤔

Alex Sinclair's avatar

Hey AndyRice, could you say anymore about what's gone wrong? I can see the embedded Twitter post, and that's all that's sufficient for winning a reward. It can be nice to directly share the image as well, but that's not essential. Is that what's not working?

AndyRice's avatar

Thank you so much for your quick response! I’ve posted the situation that I see below😃

Boomer's avatar

Hi AndyRice, this is what it looks like for me.

AndyRice's avatar

Hi! Thank you for your attention and help! This is what I saw currently on every bounty that is embeded with twitter contents, I’ve retired several devices and it seems to continue. But since all of you can see my content, I guess that’s not a big problem. Thanks again!

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