How do Green and Purple Stars form?

They don't exist. It's a computer game.

The following items also do not exist, yet appear in game:
- All of the Alien races
- Shield technology
- Hyperdrive/Warp/etc. (OK, they're kind of based on real science, but not really)
- Loads more stuff I can't be bothered writing about

The representations of stars are colored for your benefit, to reflect subtle differences in star composition that the human eye cannot ordinarily detect.

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I have noticed as well that Green stars have almost no habitable planets ever. and Purple star have the best planet qualities with moons and rings.

This is nitpicking, but in the interest of astronomical accuracy, I should point out that there are red stars that are not giants (actually, most red stars in the universe are not); low-mass M-dwarfs are very definately red.

Also, O stars and early B stars can appear white to the human eye and are the largest kinds of stars. White dwarfs and red giants are not the only color extremes!

I have heard of Red dwarfs and how commonplace they are. look at our closest neighbor Alpha Centauri has a red dwarf star in it so maybe red stars are flexible. I have never heard of White Giants or Super Giants.

We need more fake stuff like that discussion on the dauntless.

lol.

in v1.1 only yellow stars have habital planets near them.

all others are barren.

unless theres that prevursor event where all the planets change to pq 13?

That was version 1.0X that had barren planets and 1.1 changed that

What "prevursor" event ??????????

Did anyone else notice that if you are zoomed in close on a fighter...
then you click on your home system on the mini map...
A BLAZING SUN covers almost the entire display, blinding you
just like the real sun.
Gonna have to wear my welders goggles...

Might burn out your retina's if you don't wear them.

Sorry for my bad english.


You are all in error : Green stars EXIST. All the white stars are, in reality, green, probably.

My english is really to poor for explain that to you, but white stars don't really exist (white is just the sum of colors : No star send the exact amount of energy in each color => Each star has a color).

White stars are, in reality, greens. But we don't see really well green. Our green receptors see more light than our blue and red receptors, but react less : The result is the same reactions for all, and the same level of each color is always white.

Same thing for purple/violet stars : Our receptors don't react to colors "biggers" than blue (ultraviolet, in that case). Then, we see the others. And a purple star send more blue color than all the others colors of the spectrum.


But, in a space game, well, we don't are all human. others species can see others colors than us. Perhaps Drengin can see green better than red. Or perhaps their eyes receptors are entirely differents and see, by example, Yellow-Green-Violet ? Gamma-Red-Blue ?




P.S. We that, you can guess the real color of our Sun. It's yellow-green Yes, as the apples.

True, astronomy ftw.

purple stars have the best planets 20+
green stars low quality planets(if any)
orange/yellow mediem quality planets 7+ with average number of habitable
all of those are what they usally have(ive found green stars with one lvl 28 planets )

Maybe it's the kind of gas they burn too. I dunno my astronomy, but if there was some different matierials (star dust from nebulas and the like) around when the star was formed, wouldn't it burn a different color?

Maybe it's the kind of gas they burn too. I dunno my astronomy, but if there was some different matierials (star dust from nebulas and the like) around when the star was formed, wouldn't it burn a different color?

Stars don't burn, they're converting Hydrogen. When they start to run low, the can change colour. A star isn't a fire, it's a huge ball of plasma.

Stars don't burn, they're converting Hydrogen. When they start to run low, the can change colour. A star isn't a fire, it's a huge ball of plasma.

actually when they "Burn" supposedly they are fusing Hydrogen with Helium and create a plasma for your weapons no doubt.

A star that would give off a visible spectrum of green light would be a pulsar according to stuff I've read. Check out www.sciencedaily.com . The sheer mass of radiation emanating from such stars all but precludes any life, or liquid water from existing in that system. Haven't done enough legwork to know about a purple star.

I have seen the occasional Blue star in the Demo, those don't usually have habitable planets though.

so in the full game, yellow/red/orange stars have habitable planets while the green and purple stars don't? just clearing it up.

Yellow/red/orange have mediocre planets. Green don't. If you see a purple star, send 5 colony ships towards it instantly, because they often have 5 decent planets, and almost always contain at least one +20. My record is +28, +24, +22, +18, +17. And that game I played neutral

I can't remember where I read this, it was so long ago. Green stars - that look green when you look at them - aren't possible ...... *now*. In the distant future, they will be.

It needs to be made up of heavier elements before it'll look green to a human looking at it. And that won't happen until the stars that are around now go nova, the gases and matter that's left over pulls back together from gravity until it's dense enough to reignite again and then repeats this a couple more times.

If any of us are around 20 billion years from now, we'll know if that's right or not ; )

Green stars: Stars of the A spectral type, somewhat hotter than the sun have the center of their emission in the green band, but they appear white to out eye. Stars emitt light on a broad spectrum, so a star that has it's emissions peak in green would have nearly as much red and blue light emitted as well, making it look white for all intents and purposes.

Normal stellar color sequence: Star color is entirely dependent on surface temperature, with the colors you see corresponding roughly to a spectral class of star. The color of a star is not size dependent -- there are red and blue giants, red dwarfs, and blue dwarf stars that are essentially a stellar core stripped of its atmosphere by a nova event.

M - red
K - orange
G - yellow
F - yellow-white
A - White
B - Blue-white
O - Intensely blue white

Anything cooler than m looks kinda brown at best and emit infra red. Things hotter than O have most of their energy emitted in ultra violet or x-ray, and look blueish as well. Colors other than the ones above are only possible in environments where gas of specific elements can be ionized and glow, so the only things in space that look obviously green are oxygen rich nebulas.

I've never seen any star in 1.1 even besides yellow with planets. ARE YOU SURE YOUR NOT THINING OF GC1?

This guy has a bug or downloaded the patch incorrectly.

There is no such thing as something hotter than an O type star. O type stars are as hot as you get. Astronomers also assign (roman numeral) numbers after the star type for subcategories. The higher the number the hotter. So, for O type stars you just keep on getting higher and higher numbers.

The star emits most of its light at such and such a color due to its surface temperature. However, it doesnt necessarily appear to be that color to the human eye due to how our eyes work. For example, the Suns (brightness) surface temperature is something like 5770. Plug this into the relevent physical law (Wien's Law), and you find that the peak of the Suns emission is actually in the green (yellowish green anyway). Our eye just doesnt see it as green. Also remember that even though it peaks in the green, you still have almost as much light from other wavelengths coming in, so its going to appear pretty whitish in any case.

The stuff about pulsars and green stars is pure nonsense. Its unlikely you would see much of any visual light from a pulsar.