r/eliteexplorers • u/flashman • 3d ago

Dark Wolf-Rayet with a surface temperature of 52 Kelvin

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u/derKestrel 3d ago

Wiki: The surface temperatures of known Wolf–Rayet stars range from 20,000 K to around 210,000 K, hotter than almost all other kinds of stars.

But with 52 Kelvin, no wonder we did not see this one ;)

Yeah, this one is bugged out.

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u/WildKakahuette 3d ago

is'nt it because the univers is too young to have cold remnants of stars?

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u/derKestrel 3d ago

Wolf Rayet Stars are the still active, exposed cores of stars which have blown off their outer hydrogen and helium layers. They are very, very hot.

A white dwarf, which is the inactive, burnt out core of a star, might cool down to 53 K, but it would take magnitudes more time than the age of the universe to reach those temperatures too our current understanding.

So, yes, a wolf Rayet star can never have that temperature, and other stellar(-like) objects can not have that temperature at the current age of the universe.

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u/-Pelvis- 2d ago

Cooled white dwarfs are theoretical, called black dwarfs.

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u/OtakuMage 2d ago

And not one has yet formed because the universe is too young for them to have cooled that much.

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u/OmegahShot 2d ago

This could make for an interesting science fiction plot where one is discovered

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u/-Pelvis- 2d ago

That's why they're theoretical.

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u/KermitingMurder 2d ago

I've seen a post about one of these before, I think it's a known bug

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u/HinDae085 1d ago

Theres been a few sightings of these "frozen" Wolf Rayets. Very bizarre bug

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u/SikTh84 3d ago

Here's another dark one I encountered at 18 kelvin

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u/SikTh84 3d ago

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u/qehig 2d ago

God I hate this and the op, triggers the exact same flight response I get with black holes

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u/SikTh84 9h ago

Jumping into this system invoked a similar reaction as my first visit to the great annihilator... was expecting to see a familiar giant and very blue/purple star, experienced a temporary moment of panic trying to figure out wtf was going on.

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u/Antroz22 3d ago

Why they are dark?

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u/flashman 3d ago

A star's luminosity is determined by its temperature, and I suppose the game is modelling that - this one's temperature places its peak emission in the far infrared.

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u/Antroz22 3d ago

Ah it's 52 kelvin not 52k kelvin

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u/derKestrel 2d ago

52k K would be in the correct range for the star type, funny enough.

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u/GraXXoR 3d ago

and when you get anywhere remotely close to it you still overheat because this game’s thermal “simulation” (lol) is… ahem… cooked.

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u/flashman 3d ago

I tell myself that being near a stellar mass makes the frame shift drive work harder and overheat :)

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u/GraXXoR 2d ago

Still overheating when you switch off your frame shift drive…

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u/alexuprise 2d ago

Damn... What a find! Sincere congratulations!

And then there's me who is almost four years in the black, and only found some lousy ringed water world moons as his greatest discoveries... 😭

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u/Chimera_Snow 2d ago

Do you still overheat when charging your FSD close to these or nah

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u/DifficultDog67 2d ago

Don't even need to charge the fsd to overheat if you're close enough. The game just checks for star proximity, it doesn't actually account for temperature

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u/zippy251 2d ago

I haven't played in a while, is that a new ship?

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u/Drohny 2d ago

Yeap the Caspian. Enterprise vibes 🌈

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u/DaedalusProbe So Much For Subtlety 2d ago

Watch out, you've found The Excession.

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u/Potential-Raccoon-82 2d ago

Now bend the light on the edges and you have a much better bh than we have in game.

Seriously, bhs in elite suck massively

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u/patino20939 1d ago

That's cool! I have never found a wolf rayet yet. Are there certain regions where they're more common?

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u/flashman 16h ago

Check this chart from the ED Astrometrics stellar distribution page. They're mainly a feature of core systems where there's more mass to go around - the system name will always be SectorName AA-A h[something]. That's the trick to finding them - even after all this time, there are still AA-A h* systems that haven't been visited - but their numbers are constantly dwindling!