Fomalhaut's Ring is the 8th Interstellar Object and the 1st Exoplanet obtained in The Beyond Bubble Universe, which can generate Stardust. (Unlocked at Rank 20)
In-Game Description[]
"Fomalhaut A, a young blue star, is just starting its planetary family. The telltale sign is a clearly defined ring of rotating matter, part of a dusty disk nicknamed Eye of Sauron. The ring formed as rocks grew massive enough to pull loose debris into tight formation."
Traits[]
Common[]
- Protoplanetary Disk (Speed):
"Protoplanetary disks form around a new star when momentum sets gas clouds spinning. Just as pizza dough spreads as it’s twirled, the rotating cloud expands and flattens. While gas and dust fly apart, gravity pulls them together. When gravity wins, planets can form."
- Stable Parents (Payout):
"Fomalhaut A is a hot young star, stable but short lived. Longer-lived dwarfs, like Fomalhaut B and C, offer planets more time to form and stabilize. Orange dwarfs are ideal stars for life to evolve around: they’re warmer than red dwarfs and live longer than yellow ones."
Rare[]
- Indirect Observation (Payout):
"Most exoplanets are found by their effects. A planet passes in front of a distant star, and its gravity bends the starlight. Or it transits its own star and briefly dims it. Or its gravity makes the star wobble, shifting the spectrum red or blue—the radial velocity method."
Epic[]
- Cosmology (Speed):
"The scientific study of the universe asks the very biggest questions. How did it form? What came before? How does it work? Is it infinite? Will it die? All the pieces we observe—comets, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, nebulae, and even voids—provide some answers."
- Dark Matter (Payout):
"Dark matter acts like a superhero. It’s everywhere in space and yet invisible. Its gravity distorts huge objects that we can see. It can even buttress a dwarf galaxy against annihilation by a giant one. The duo of dark matter and dark energy make up 95% of the universe."
- Dark Energy (Discount):
"Little is known about dark energy, except that it’s repulsive. Opposing gravity, this strange force causes matter to scatter rather than attract, pushing our universe to expand faster and faster. Dark energy makes up 68% of the universe’s mass-energy density."
Constellations[]
- Eridanus (1.5x Speed):
"Eridanus, The River, is the longest constellation in the sky. It starts near Rigel and twists and turns all the way to its brightest star, Achernar (“River’s End” in Arabic). It was named after Eridu, an early Sumerian city in the marshes of what is now southern Iraq."
- Canis Major (2x Speed):
"Imagine Canis Major, a “Great Dog,” on two hind legs, chasing Lepus the Hare. Or maybe it’s bounding after Orion the Hunter. Meanwhile, Orion’s blue-gemmed belt points back to Sirius, the bright star that bejewels the Great Dog’s neck. A storybook in the sky!"
System Components[]
Star[]
Fomalhaut A (also known just as Fomalhaut) is a white star of spectral type A3 V. Along this one, the stars TW Piscis Austrini (Fomalhaut B) and LP 876-10 (Fomalhaut C) form a triple star system.
Achievements[]
- Baby Stars (Rank 3):
"Baby stars show us the stages of planet birth. At just 100,000 years old, HL Tauri is too young to be a parent. Its dust disk is smooth and flat. TW Hydrae, 5 million years old, has a a wonky, multi-ring disk shaped by planetesimals. Neither star is fusing hydrogen yet."
- Tatooine’s Twin (Rank 6):
"In multi-star systems, each star can host its own planets. Kepler-16 is different. A gas giant the size of Saturn orbits two dwarf stars in a figure-eight pattern. Nicknamed Tatooine after the Star Wars world, the planet Kepler-16b has two sunsets and two sunrises."
Real Image[]
Sources[]
- Fomalhaut — image above taken
