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Luke's catalogs have like- 3-5 times more stars on M31 than M33...

Barnardrise on Barnard's Star b

The goal of the project is to texture every known exoplanet. ... Project Sisyphus will only do the confirmed exoplanets. Do you have a system to automate this? As you are probably aware, as of the last few years confirmed planets have been coming at or above 1 per day. This is an extraordinary amou...

Welcome to Project Sisyphus! The goal of the project is to texture every known exoplanet. For the purposes of catalog stability, Project Sisyphus will only do the confirmed exoplanets. Note that it wont include all exoplanets, as some of then had been made by other users. Also, the textures are com...

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Then what about Kepler-37b? Its around the size of the moon.

Actually, Earth can be anywhere from the 4th rock (Mercury, Venus, 2020 CD3, and Earth) to beyond the 15000th rock - because of NEAs, comets, and more

I use the MPC as my source for minor planets, since they are literally the main authority over minor planet discoveries and observations.

This seems to be all of then... First update! Now I will try my best to update this catalog monthly. The updates minor planet catalog now consists of 930,678 minor planets. mpc_02-03-2020.zip Little acknowledgement before the MPC comes in: This research has made use of data and/or services provided ...

Oops! I will fix it tomorrow...

SS 433 and its companion

Ishana with sprite rings (Sprite model by Vision and PlutonianEmpire)

Gonggong-Xiangliu is a tight binary - the a/r_H of the binary is 0.007 at max, less than the 0.05 defined as the border between tight and wide binaries, and TNO moon orbits strongly prefer prograde orbits in tight binaries. So I think that Xiangliu has a prograde orbit, based on math and Grundy et a...

So when will the Android version come out?

I'm in the "anyone who is going to make very large and comprehensive addons in there" category

Vibhirise and Vibhiset, as seen from Shana (Chiran-Jivi subsystem, Aurori Circumventis/Brahma system)