Various astronomy news

[FluffyFreak]

Earth like planets might be present in every star system http://www.iflscience.com/ingredients-l ... ary-system

[Marcel]

This picture of the Moon coalescing with its lava geysers reminds me so much of some of the rocky planets in Pioneer that I just had to post it here.
http://i.space.com/images/i/000/049/713 ... 1440435445

[impaktor]

Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres

[FluffyFreak]

Plasma Fire Tornado on the Sun

Direct YouTube link because hi-res PLASMA FIRE TORNADO ON THE SUN is even better.

[impaktor]

That looks really cool.

Also, NASA to launch a high res. TV channel: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa- ... th-america

[nozmajner]

Timelapse of the asterioids discovered so far. At least the ones that are inside Jupiters orbit.

[impaktor]

That video was quite CPU intense.

On Monday: BBC: Total lunar eclipse to meet 'supermoon'

[FluffyFreak]

We should probably look into getting the Ceres, Pluto and Charon heightmaps, even if only to release them as a mod.

They might be useful for helping us to refine how our terrain generation works.

[FluffyFreak]

The milky way at various wavelengths.

I find that extremely cool, I might also be slightly hungover today.

[impaktor]

Oh, man, just think: Flip a switch to enable far infrared view in front camera in order to find ships to attack through their heat signatures, and you get that hell fire background from the galaxy. Would be pretty. Actually this would give a scientific excuse for over-prettified sky boxes. :)