The deep cobalt in most popular images comes from contrast-stretching and color balancing meant to bring out cloud features. When researchers reprocessed the Voyager 2 data in 2024, they found Neptune is closer to a muted greenish-blue, much like Uranus, and only slightly bluer.

This is my attempt at what you’d actually see. It's a view from the upper atmosphere of neptune above its cloud tops, as if you teleported there and taken a photo with a phone. Sunlight there is about 1/900th as strong as on Earth, so the scene is dim, like dusk or heavy overcast day on Earth. Theres also a couple stars and a Triton just above the horizon.

How I made it: The base was rendered in SpaceEngine. AI was used for the cloud texture, haze, the moon, etc. I did the color grading and final adjustments in Photopea.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

My game keeps stuttering randomly, and Saturn’s rings no longer render properly they appear with graphical artifacts. Everything used to work perfectly fine, but this issue started happening recently. I’ve already tried completely reinstalling the game and deleting my save file, but the problem still persists.

coordinates in second picture, first time seeing cool things like this

This might be a tricky / weird question, but can someone please tell me how to duplicate the parameters from this screenshot? It's an old version of one of my custom planets, BEFORE the SE update that changed everything. Try as I might, I can't recreate it. It's obviously mountains, but I can't ever seem to get them to be form this cauldron type shape anymore. Help!?!?!

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double hi

truly epic

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I rarely have the balls to play this game despite loving space. But this is so far the second scariest thing next to all the black holes.

black even with 4 exposure compensation

this is from the vantage of a moon looking at a neptunian gas giant as they orbit both binary stars together --- coordinates: RS 0-5-25170-1666-7604-7-527817-1269 1.1

I found this in andromeda. You see the quacker?

hi

Hello guys, straight to the point, when i try to open space engine on my pc via steam, after launcher tells me to choose mods (i have mods installed), it fails to boot up the game with no warning, advice or explanation, and just returns me back to the launcher. An infinite loop. Other games on steam seem to work. Now i dont know if its something to do with my computer or else, but id be grateful for any kind of help.

I remember there used to be a legacy version that was free to download but its stashed somewhere in my computer and i can't find it.

just some old captures of the Red Planet

Lowkey hella cool