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Historic or hypothetical simulation of novae. It would be neat to see how they would appear and how they would light things up in their neighborhood.

Though Celestia really wouldn't do it justice (until perhaps the floating point pixels are implemented?). Supernovae especially are so much brighter than anything else around them that you couldn't possibly simulate how it would really look on a computer screen enough to make it look convincing .

I think you actually could make it look convincing. If you can't make it look any brighter, just make it look bigger. If it is extremely big compared to evey other star, it would look very bright.

Michael Kilderry

Michael Kilderry wrote:I think you actually could make it look convincing. If you can't make it look any brighter, just make it look bigger. If it is extremely big compared to evey other star, it would look very bright.

That wouldn't work though. You could just zoom onto a bright star until you had a white screen, and that still wouldn't do it justice. A supernova would have to burn your eyes out (and set the wall behind you on fire) if it was rendered accurately on a computer monitor, which would probably blow out long before that happened .

(and you do know what a supernova is, right - it's the explosion that results when a massive star collapses. It's not a star).