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So essentially, the Sun has a real color and the color we see? So the Sun is yellow from Earth, brighter yellow from space, but truly white?

http://www.cracked.com/article_19649_6-myths-everyone-believes-about-space-thanks-to-movies.html Be careful, this has some bad language. But it says that the sun is white instead of yellow, but Celestia renders it as it is yellow... The sun article is near the bottom. Now this got me thinking - if a...

If there was no complex life, could the g-forces possibly be negated by spinning the planet faster? Or would spinning at that speed tear the planet apart?

Nice! It is not perfect but based on your description I think this will be the best that we can get with Celestia 1.6

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-luPRcY2v4nY/Teh4UQ-D6nI/AAAAAAAADZY/PvL9BwoOAvA/s1600/Gliese_229.jpg This is a brown dwarf as rendered by Celestia. Shouldn't a brown dwarf be darker and cooler? It is also in a binary system (Gliese 229), so it should be lit more on one side. Don't brown dwarfs give off l...

Anything else? I would not like to download all of those files.

Is there an addon that simulates the death of the sun in 5 billion years?