Arcturus is the 6th Interstellar Object and the 3rd Late Stage Star obtained in the Beyond (Rank 19), which can generate Stardust 
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Description[]
"Arcturus offers a sneak peek into the Sun’s future. Once a young yellow dwarf, it’s now a geriatric 7.1-billion-year-old red giant. The star’s mass hasn’t changed much, but its girth is 25 times bigger. The surface is brighter than the Sun, but cooler."
Traits[]
The rare traits matching this generators type are: Late-Stage Star . Arcturus is also affected by the epic traits: Cosmology , Dark Matter , Dark Energy . It is also affected by the constellations: Eridanus,Orion, as well as by the generator rank.
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Dwarf to Giant | How does a dwarf swell into a giant? The core of Arcturus fuses helium into carbon, pushing hydrogen into a growing outer shell. Some hydrogen is fusing into heavier helium, adding to the core, but the rest rapidly expands, cools, and sheds into space on solar winds. | Generator Unlocked |
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Helium Flash | When the core has enough heat and pressure, it ignites in a helium flash. This inner explosion happens in minutes as helium rapidly fuses into carbon. A giant star doesn’t have the mass to fuse carbon, so it collapses, dies, and sheds matter, forming a planetary nebula. | Dwarf to Giant |
Achievements[]
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They Can’t Be Giants | Not all dwarfs become giants. The cutoff is at about .4 solar masses, the amount needed to fuse helium. Unlike Arcturus, a lightweight star like Proxima Centauri (.12 solar masses) will leave the main sequence and begin a very long, slow decline into a white dwarf. | Arcturus Rank 3 |
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Planet Eaters | The volatility of late-stage stars puts planets in peril. The Sun will swell into an Arcturus-like red giant in 5 billion years, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and then Earth. In 2023, for the first time, a telescope imaged a distant star eating its own Jupiter-like planet. | Arcturus Rank 6 |
Trivia[]
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Arcturus (α Böotis) is a red giant of spectral type K1.5 III Fe−0.5. This star lies on the northern constellation of Böotes, and is the fourth brightest star in the entire night sky. It is also the brightest star in the northern sky.
Sources[]
- Arcturus — Arcturus image above taken
