Now with accurately modeled rings!
HIP 41378, also known as K2-93, is an F-type star about 346 light-years away in the constellation Cancer. It hosts a system of five transiting planets discovered in 2016, and likely a sixth, non-transiting, planet. The outermost planet, HIP 41378 f, appears unusually large given its mass. While this may just indicate a very low density, it could also be evidence of a ring system, as depicted in this addon.
I originally included a ringed HIP 41378 f in my old "Exoplanet Updates" addon in 2019, shortly after the ring hypothesis was first proposed. The textures used were created by fyr02 as generic textures. More recently, an addon texturing all six planets by 星颜Crazy was posted to the Celestia forum; these textures are used in this addon, with the old texture for planet f as an alternate surface. I've recolored the textures for planets e & g to be somewhat more realistic. The old ring texture is still used since no other custom texture has been released; while it appears to be a modified Saturn ring texture, its dark color is realistic given that this planet's temperature makes it more likely to have rocky rings, rather than icy rings like Saturn.
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