Update log
Full SpaceEngine update
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Extracted changes
- Gameplay
- Fixes
Today’s update includes several smaller updates to several SpaceEngine features. The first is a major exoplanet catalog expansion. We have added 336 new exoplanets, 214 new exoplanet host stars, eight new brown dwarfs/stellar binaries, and added 30 missing stellar binary 'B' components of exoplanet-hosting systems. Additionally, we have updated asteroid binaries and Saturn’s moons, and made many other catalog corrections, including removing duplicate objects and correcting naming inconsistencies. We have also added some minor bug fixes for the Climate Model. These include fixing a bug where temperatures were constant across the surfaces of planets with extremely thin atmospheres, and fixing a bug where secondary stars were being ignored in some planet surface temperature calculations.
As of November 29, 2023 the NASA Exoplanet Archive reports a whopping 5,539 confirmed exoplanets and brown dwarf companions from researchers all over the world. The number of confirmed exoplanets surpassed 5,500 in August 2023. To celebrate this numeric milestone, and the SpaceEngine catalogs update, we are highlighting five exciting exoplanet discoveries and updates from 2023 you can visit in-game today!
Changelog:
Fixed minor bugs in the climate model
Updated exoplanets catalog
Updated asteroids catalog
Updated moons of Saturn
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