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Thanks, that looks awesome!

Hi, I read a report recently on the extrasolar planet HD 209458b, which orbits very close to its star. It seems that the planet's atmosphere is being 'blown off' by the star's solar wind and is streaming away from it like a big comet. I thought it would be fun to try to simulate this, but I hit a sn...

Thanks Bh,

I tried it for Jupiter, and it works! Not sure about the green, but each to their own...

One problem: the atmosphere is spherical, but Jupiter is not. This makes it look rather silly around the poles. Is there a way of fixing this by making the atmosphere oblate like the planet?

I'd like to add atmospheres to the gas giants. After all, it's fun to sit on Saturn and gaze up at the rings, but the view would be prettier and (I presume) more accurate if there was a blue sky. Can I do this by simply adding some lines to the Solar System .ssc file? And if so, does anyone have som...

I just discovered Celestia by accident. I've been playing around with Starry Night for a few years, and it's cool, but Celestia is outstanding - its graphics are way better and the fact that it's free is simply flabbergasting! I'm a complete computer novice, so I just wanted to say to the designers ...