Galactic Exploration Catalog
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Galactic Exploration Catalog: Sharing your beautiful, rare, and exceptional discoveries for your fellow Commanders to enjoy.
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Chione's Embrace
Icy moon with atmosphere orbiting really close to its parent gas giant, providing a great view from its surface.
Explorer Rating: 3.5 stars, 18 Votes
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Icy moon with atmosphere orbiting really close to its parent gas giant, providing a great view from its surface.
Explorer Rating: 3.5 stars, 18 Votes
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GEC POI: Chione's Embrace
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November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chione's Embrace
Icy moon with atmosphere orbiting really close to its parent gas giant, providing a great view from its surface.
Explorer Rating: 3.5 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Icy moon with atmosphere orbiting really close to its parent gas giant, providing a great view from its surface.
Explorer Rating: 3.5 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Delphi
A significant human controlled system in the Merope bubble that also hosts an active Thargoid surface site.
Explorer Rating: 3.94 stars, 16 Votes
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A significant human controlled system in the Merope bubble that also hosts an active Thargoid surface site.
Explorer Rating: 3.94 stars, 16 Votes
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GEC POI: Delphi
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Delphi
A significant human controlled system in the Merope bubble that also hosts an active Thargoid surface site.
Explorer Rating: 3.94 stars, 16 Votes
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A significant human controlled system in the Merope bubble that also hosts an active Thargoid surface site.
Explorer Rating: 3.94 stars, 16 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Lantern of Oephaik
A rare Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere landable body, with a class M red dwarf star dominating its sky.
Explorer Rating: 3.22 stars, 23 Votes
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A rare Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere landable body, with a class M red dwarf star dominating its sky.
Explorer Rating: 3.22 stars, 23 Votes
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GEC POI: Lantern of Oephaik
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November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lantern of Oephaik
A rare Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere landable body, with a class M red dwarf star dominating its sky.
Explorer Rating: 3.22 stars, 23 Votes
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A rare Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere landable body, with a class M red dwarf star dominating its sky.
Explorer Rating: 3.22 stars, 23 Votes
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Thracian planetary nebula
A rich planetary nebula, and former home of the DSSA Inverness.
Explorer Rating: 3.37 stars, 19 Votes
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A rich planetary nebula, and former home of the DSSA Inverness.
Explorer Rating: 3.37 stars, 19 Votes
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GEC POI: Thracian planetary nebula
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thracian planetary nebula
A rich planetary nebula, and former home of the DSSA Inverness.
Explorer Rating: 3.37 stars, 19 Votes
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A rich planetary nebula, and former home of the DSSA Inverness.
Explorer Rating: 3.37 stars, 19 Votes
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Via Gravitatis
The record holder for highest gravity landable planet, at 45 g.
Explorer Rating: 4.19 stars, 26 Votes
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The record holder for highest gravity landable planet, at 45 g.
Explorer Rating: 4.19 stars, 26 Votes
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GEC POI: Via Gravitatis
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Via Gravitatis
The record holder for highest gravity landable planet, at 45 g.
Explorer Rating: 4.19 stars, 26 Votes
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The record holder for highest gravity landable planet, at 45 g.
Explorer Rating: 4.19 stars, 26 Votes
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Eodgorsts Anomaly Clusters
Three clusters of systems, each housing a different type of Anomalies.
Explorer Rating: 4.24 stars, 25 Votes
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Three clusters of systems, each housing a different type of Anomalies.
Explorer Rating: 4.24 stars, 25 Votes
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GEC POI: Eodgorsts Anomaly Clusters
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November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Eodgorsts Anomaly Clusters
Three clusters of systems, each housing a different type of Anomalies.
Explorer Rating: 4.24 stars, 25 Votes
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Three clusters of systems, each housing a different type of Anomalies.
Explorer Rating: 4.24 stars, 25 Votes
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Gigantor's Temple
This system harbors Gigantor, the largest currently known landable planet (with a radius of 28,878 km) in the galaxy. It also features an atmospheric world relatively close to a ringed brown dwarf.
Explorer Rating: 3.61 stars, 18 Votes
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This system harbors Gigantor, the largest currently known landable planet (with a radius of 28,878 km) in the galaxy. It also features an atmospheric world relatively close to a ringed brown dwarf.
Explorer Rating: 3.61 stars, 18 Votes
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GEC POI: Gigantor's Temple
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Gigantor's Temple
This system harbors Gigantor, the largest currently known landable planet (with a radius of 28,878 km) in the galaxy. It also features an atmospheric world relatively close to a ringed brown dwarf.
Explorer Rating: 3.61 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
This system harbors Gigantor, the largest currently known landable planet (with a radius of 28,878 km) in the galaxy. It also features an atmospheric world relatively close to a ringed brown dwarf.
Explorer Rating: 3.61 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Crucible's Harvest
A metal-rich body with a landable Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere bearing life.
Explorer Rating: 4.14 stars, 37 Votes
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A metal-rich body with a landable Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere bearing life.
Explorer Rating: 4.14 stars, 37 Votes
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GEC POI: Crucible's Harvest
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November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crucible's Harvest
A metal-rich body with a landable Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere bearing life.
Explorer Rating: 4.14 stars, 37 Votes
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A metal-rich body with a landable Hot Thin Silicate Vapour atmosphere bearing life.
Explorer Rating: 4.14 stars, 37 Votes
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Flare Valley
Landable Metal Rich Body B 1 with an orbital period of 3.7 hours is only 1.68 ls away from its parent flare-active class M dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.53 stars, 19 Votes
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Landable Metal Rich Body B 1 with an orbital period of 3.7 hours is only 1.68 ls away from its parent flare-active class M dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.53 stars, 19 Votes
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GEC POI: Flare Valley
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November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Flare Valley
Landable Metal Rich Body B 1 with an orbital period of 3.7 hours is only 1.68 ls away from its parent flare-active class M dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.53 stars, 19 Votes
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Landable Metal Rich Body B 1 with an orbital period of 3.7 hours is only 1.68 ls away from its parent flare-active class M dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.53 stars, 19 Votes
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Beagle Point
A famous expedition destination, which used to be the farthest reachable system from Sol, from 3300 to 3302.
Explorer Rating: 4.32 stars, 22 Votes
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A famous expedition destination, which used to be the farthest reachable system from Sol, from 3300 to 3302.
Explorer Rating: 4.32 stars, 22 Votes
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GEC POI: Beagle Point
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November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Beagle Point
A famous expedition destination, which used to be the farthest reachable system from Sol, from 3300 to 3302.
Explorer Rating: 4.32 stars, 22 Votes
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A famous expedition destination, which used to be the farthest reachable system from Sol, from 3300 to 3302.
Explorer Rating: 4.32 stars, 22 Votes
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Scylla and Charybdis
A pair of ringed neutron stars, one fully lit and the other in darkness.
Explorer Rating: 3.91 stars, 23 Votes
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A pair of ringed neutron stars, one fully lit and the other in darkness.
Explorer Rating: 3.91 stars, 23 Votes
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GEC POI: Scylla and Charybdis
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Scylla and Charybdis
A pair of ringed neutron stars, one fully lit and the other in darkness.
Explorer Rating: 3.91 stars, 23 Votes
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A pair of ringed neutron stars, one fully lit and the other in darkness.
Explorer Rating: 3.91 stars, 23 Votes
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Candy River
A ringed Class I Green Gas Giant with several maroon stripes and vivid green streaks. There are also 6 landable moons and a tritium hotspot.
Explorer Rating: 4.04 stars, 23 Votes
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A ringed Class I Green Gas Giant with several maroon stripes and vivid green streaks. There are also 6 landable moons and a tritium hotspot.
Explorer Rating: 4.04 stars, 23 Votes
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GEC POI: Candy River
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November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Candy River
A ringed Class I Green Gas Giant with several maroon stripes and vivid green streaks. There are also 6 landable moons and a tritium hotspot.
Explorer Rating: 4.04 stars, 23 Votes
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A ringed Class I Green Gas Giant with several maroon stripes and vivid green streaks. There are also 6 landable moons and a tritium hotspot.
Explorer Rating: 4.04 stars, 23 Votes
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Prunes and Magnesia
Two class III gas giants collide in this system approximately every 29 days. So named because it is more regular than the other colliding gas giants, Rhubarb and Custard.
Explorer Rating: 4.05 stars, 20 Votes
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Two class III gas giants collide in this system approximately every 29 days. So named because it is more regular than the other colliding gas giants, Rhubarb and Custard.
Explorer Rating: 4.05 stars, 20 Votes
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GEC POI: Prunes and Magnesia
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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Prunes and Magnesia
Two class III gas giants collide in this system approximately every 29 days. So named because it is more regular than the other colliding gas giants, Rhubarb and Custard.
Explorer Rating: 4.05 stars, 20 Votes
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Two class III gas giants collide in this system approximately every 29 days. So named because it is more regular than the other colliding gas giants, Rhubarb and Custard.
Explorer Rating: 4.05 stars, 20 Votes
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Big Top Circus Act
An icy ringed landable moon orbiting a wide ringed Class I gas giant at a near perpendicular angle, to create a stunning view from both the surface and close orbit.
Explorer Rating: 3.63 stars, 19 Votes
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An icy ringed landable moon orbiting a wide ringed Class I gas giant at a near perpendicular angle, to create a stunning view from both the surface and close orbit.
Explorer Rating: 3.63 stars, 19 Votes
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GEC POI: Big Top Circus Act
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Big Top Circus Act
An icy ringed landable moon orbiting a wide ringed Class I gas giant at a near perpendicular angle, to create a stunning view from both the surface and close orbit.
Explorer Rating: 3.63 stars, 19 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
An icy ringed landable moon orbiting a wide ringed Class I gas giant at a near perpendicular angle, to create a stunning view from both the surface and close orbit.
Explorer Rating: 3.63 stars, 19 Votes
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Vegnue AA-A h17 nebula (Tsukuyomi's Wings nebula)
A large nebula with Parasol Molluscs in the Notable Stellar Phenomena signals around it.
Explorer Rating: 3.88 stars, 17 Votes
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A large nebula with Parasol Molluscs in the Notable Stellar Phenomena signals around it.
Explorer Rating: 3.88 stars, 17 Votes
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GEC POI: Vegnue AA-A h17 nebula (Tsukuyomi's Wings nebula)
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November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Vegnue AA-A h17 nebula (Tsukuyomi's Wings nebula)
A large nebula with Parasol Molluscs in the Notable Stellar Phenomena signals around it.
Explorer Rating: 3.88 stars, 17 Votes
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A large nebula with Parasol Molluscs in the Notable Stellar Phenomena signals around it.
Explorer Rating: 3.88 stars, 17 Votes
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Battista Tocci Twins
The twins are icy bodies that collide approximately every two years and remain conjoined for 24 hours. Named after Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, conjoined twins from 19th Century Italy.
Explorer Rating: 3.47 stars, 19 Votes
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The twins are icy bodies that collide approximately every two years and remain conjoined for 24 hours. Named after Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, conjoined twins from 19th Century Italy.
Explorer Rating: 3.47 stars, 19 Votes
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GEC POI: Battista Tocci Twins
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November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Battista Tocci Twins
The twins are icy bodies that collide approximately every two years and remain conjoined for 24 hours. Named after Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, conjoined twins from 19th Century Italy.
Explorer Rating: 3.47 stars, 19 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
The twins are icy bodies that collide approximately every two years and remain conjoined for 24 hours. Named after Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, conjoined twins from 19th Century Italy.
Explorer Rating: 3.47 stars, 19 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Tales of Might
A thin oxygen atmosphere moon on a mighty eccentric orbit around a ringed Class Y dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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A thin oxygen atmosphere moon on a mighty eccentric orbit around a ringed Class Y dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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GEC POI: Tales of Might
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November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tales of Might
A thin oxygen atmosphere moon on a mighty eccentric orbit around a ringed Class Y dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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A thin oxygen atmosphere moon on a mighty eccentric orbit around a ringed Class Y dwarf star.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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Void Hearts of Epiphany
This is the only known area in the galaxy containing Void Hearts and their Octahedral Pods, as of March 3309.
Explorer Rating: 4.59 stars, 22 Votes
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This is the only known area in the galaxy containing Void Hearts and their Octahedral Pods, as of March 3309.
Explorer Rating: 4.59 stars, 22 Votes
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GEC POI: Void Hearts of Epiphany
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November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Void Hearts of Epiphany
This is the only known area in the galaxy containing Void Hearts and their Octahedral Pods, as of March 3309.
Explorer Rating: 4.59 stars, 22 Votes
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This is the only known area in the galaxy containing Void Hearts and their Octahedral Pods, as of March 3309.
Explorer Rating: 4.59 stars, 22 Votes
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Blue Garden
The Blue Garden is an icy moon (4 b) in the vicinity of the Spirit Nebula, with a peculiar sunset, flora and rings.
Explorer Rating: 3.68 stars, 19 Votes
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The Blue Garden is an icy moon (4 b) in the vicinity of the Spirit Nebula, with a peculiar sunset, flora and rings.
Explorer Rating: 3.68 stars, 19 Votes
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GEC POI: Blue Garden
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November 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Blue Garden
The Blue Garden is an icy moon (4 b) in the vicinity of the Spirit Nebula, with a peculiar sunset, flora and rings.
Explorer Rating: 3.68 stars, 19 Votes
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The Blue Garden is an icy moon (4 b) in the vicinity of the Spirit Nebula, with a peculiar sunset, flora and rings.
Explorer Rating: 3.68 stars, 19 Votes
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Miller Mann
A landable thin atmospheric HMC planet that, at 12 ls away, has the closest orbit to a black hole, as of 2022-08-28, and also the second-shortest rotation of an atmospheric body.
Explorer Rating: 3.39 stars, 18 Votes
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A landable thin atmospheric HMC planet that, at 12 ls away, has the closest orbit to a black hole, as of 2022-08-28, and also the second-shortest rotation of an atmospheric body.
Explorer Rating: 3.39 stars, 18 Votes
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GEC POI: Miller Mann
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November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Miller Mann
A landable thin atmospheric HMC planet that, at 12 ls away, has the closest orbit to a black hole, as of 2022-08-28, and also the second-shortest rotation of an atmospheric body.
Explorer Rating: 3.39 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
A landable thin atmospheric HMC planet that, at 12 ls away, has the closest orbit to a black hole, as of 2022-08-28, and also the second-shortest rotation of an atmospheric body.
Explorer Rating: 3.39 stars, 18 Votes
#elitedangerous @frontierdev
Herbig's Lantern
A Class IV Green Gas Giant with vivid bands of green clouds, the first one to be discovered in a proto-star system. Also the youngest, only 2 million years old.
Explorer Rating: 4.56 stars, 18 Votes
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A Class IV Green Gas Giant with vivid bands of green clouds, the first one to be discovered in a proto-star system. Also the youngest, only 2 million years old.
Explorer Rating: 4.56 stars, 18 Votes
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GEC POI: Herbig's Lantern
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November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Herbig's Lantern
A Class IV Green Gas Giant with vivid bands of green clouds, the first one to be discovered in a proto-star system. Also the youngest, only 2 million years old.
Explorer Rating: 4.56 stars, 18 Votes
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A Class IV Green Gas Giant with vivid bands of green clouds, the first one to be discovered in a proto-star system. Also the youngest, only 2 million years old.
Explorer Rating: 4.56 stars, 18 Votes
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Fields of Elysium
Close, binary, ringed Earth-like worlds.
Explorer Rating: 3.86 stars, 21 Votes
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Close, binary, ringed Earth-like worlds.
Explorer Rating: 3.86 stars, 21 Votes
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GEC POI: Fields of Elysium
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November 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fields of Elysium
Close, binary, ringed Earth-like worlds.
Explorer Rating: 3.86 stars, 21 Votes
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Close, binary, ringed Earth-like worlds.
Explorer Rating: 3.86 stars, 21 Votes
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NGC 3199 nebula
NGC 3199 is an emission nebula that was created by the now lost Wolf-Rayet star WR 18. It houses Bullet Molluscs and Guardian ruins.
Explorer Rating: 3.83 stars, 18 Votes
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NGC 3199 is an emission nebula that was created by the now lost Wolf-Rayet star WR 18. It houses Bullet Molluscs and Guardian ruins.
Explorer Rating: 3.83 stars, 18 Votes
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GEC POI: NGC 3199 nebula
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October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
NGC 3199 nebula
NGC 3199 is an emission nebula that was created by the now lost Wolf-Rayet star WR 18. It houses Bullet Molluscs and Guardian ruins.
Explorer Rating: 3.83 stars, 18 Votes
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NGC 3199 is an emission nebula that was created by the now lost Wolf-Rayet star WR 18. It houses Bullet Molluscs and Guardian ruins.
Explorer Rating: 3.83 stars, 18 Votes
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Research Vessel Cete
An abandoned research vessel which's logs contain the last records of an expedition sent to find ruins of the extinct Guardians, and a wrecked Anaconda on a less noble mission.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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An abandoned research vessel which's logs contain the last records of an expedition sent to find ruins of the extinct Guardians, and a wrecked Anaconda on a less noble mission.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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GEC POI: Research Vessel Cete
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October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Research Vessel Cete
An abandoned research vessel which's logs contain the last records of an expedition sent to find ruins of the extinct Guardians, and a wrecked Anaconda on a less noble mission.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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An abandoned research vessel which's logs contain the last records of an expedition sent to find ruins of the extinct Guardians, and a wrecked Anaconda on a less noble mission.
Explorer Rating: 3.36 stars, 14 Votes
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Traikeou AA-A h2 nebula
A larger nebula hosting Purpureum Gourd Molluscs, not far from the Sol-Colonia route.
Explorer Rating: 3.75 stars, 16 Votes
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A larger nebula hosting Purpureum Gourd Molluscs, not far from the Sol-Colonia route.
Explorer Rating: 3.75 stars, 16 Votes
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GEC POI: Traikeou AA-A h2 nebula
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October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Traikeou AA-A h2 nebula
A larger nebula hosting Purpureum Gourd Molluscs, not far from the Sol-Colonia route.
Explorer Rating: 3.75 stars, 16 Votes
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A larger nebula hosting Purpureum Gourd Molluscs, not far from the Sol-Colonia route.
Explorer Rating: 3.75 stars, 16 Votes
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