Yes please, leebs.

So why not make the fog sectors into nebula's? Can do them up in a diverse color array like the hubble images and in certain areas not the whole sector.

We had suggestions for nebulas years back. I guess it could actually be achieved now.

Sheesh, Inc., if you need skybox backgrounds, all you need to do is ask...

Sooo.. Leebs.. how's that poster going, hey? Any new ideas there? ;)

blacknet: yes, we can technically pretend "fog" is "nebula", that just irritates some astronomy-geek part of me, because it's so vastly inaccurate compared to reality. But, we also have "asteroid fields" and stuff that are probably way denser than the vast majority in reality. Maybe there are fields like that somewhere, on the Kuiper cliff or elsewhere.

Plus, I thought it was kinda cool to have fogging by affected by mining activity, which is not so much with the "nebula-ness". But, who knows.

I read recently that the closest asteroids in an asteroid field are about 1.5 miles apart, and those are usually two or more fragments of the same asteroid. Any closer and they smash into dust.

technicly to humans if you went to an astroid field wouldn't it be one big roid and then like a light year( or some other huge distance) away or something would be another roid

nothing to do with the topic, but I saw lighters with gas yellow.
how are they for tinting the gas (for get the color )?

Inc. You could see the 'roid fields as proto-planets in the making. They did clump up like that at the beginning of the formation of the solar system.

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Fog: Upper reaches of Gas giants.

That is the only way you can get the fog. But it is quite possible to have structures there, even in falling 'roids. They are caught in a strong wind that pushes them and us at the rotational speed for that altitude.

On one hand calling the fog we have a nebula is inaccurate,
but on the other a lot of stuff in game isn't either,
said fog itself being a pretty bad example.

@peytros: You're oversizing the distances. A light year is much larger than the distance between asteroids. At its farthest, Pluto is only 0.00077 light years from the sun (6.79 light hours). I think distances between asteroids would be measured in something more on the scale of light seconds, if that. Still a pretty huge distance to a human though (a light second is nearly 300 thousand kilometers, which is not quite the distance from Earth to the Moon).

ah ok yeah i knew they where far apart i guess just not THAT far apart

yea earth is approximatly 7 light seconds from the sun

It takes a little over 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.

The Earth and the sun are about 499.0 light-seconds apart, or 8.317 light-minutes.

oh ok, i got seconds and minutes mixed up

the third pic isnt even a nebula. its called 'V838 Monocerotis' and it is classified as a luminious red nova. the nebula-like stuff around it is a light echo. i dont mean to be pedantic or anything :P

-Ostan

I guess this is a good place to redirect people toward the NASA Astronomy Image of the Day slideshow I made earlier this year to Lisa Gerrard's song "The Unfolding". Tertior let me upload it to his iDisk:

http://idisk.mac.com/tertior-Public?view=web

It's called "The Unfolding.m4v"

Why don't you try uploading that to a site that will display that data rather than demanding that i use a different operating system?

Huh? You can't download that on Windows? I can't justify subscribing to an ftp site that allows large files right now, and Tertior was nice enough to lend me the space he wasn't using since YouTube, etc. have copyright issues with the music I used and won't let me put it there. If you click on the link, ladron, and it doesn't work for you, do you have suggestions for me? I'm open to them.

Thanks for the video Professor Chaos, very nice.

ladron: What issues are you having with this? It works just fine with Linux, specifically Ubuntu. If not, see here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Glad you like it, vskye.

Also, ladron, I hope you don't think I was ripping on you or anything. I wrote my comment earlier while I was very tired, and as I re-read it it kind of sounds harsh... I'm just curious and surprised you couldn't download it is all. :)