No surprises from the beta, so moving straight to public with the latest update! We're bringing the usual catalog updates, as well as a new config parameter, ShowSeizureWarning, to enable/disable the bootup seizure warning. This can be found in your main-user.cfg file.
This round, we wanted to shine a little extra light on what "catalog updates" means. That is, one of our resident astronomers on the team manually adds any newly discovered objects into SE. This is just a sample of the 21 new objects added:
"This month I was excited to read about the NGTS-33 system, discovered and characterized using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) robotic telescope array in Chile. The hot-Jupiter NGTS-33 b closely orbits its host star, a fast rotating, 7400 K, A-type star. Planets are not typically found orbiting massive stars like A-, B-, and O-type stars, making NGTS-33 b a unique discovery! It was also found to have a very low density and an inflated radius, about 15% larger than expected. But most excitingly, NGTS-33 b is a very young planet, only about 10-50 million years old. Detections of young planets are rare, and a large sample of them is needed for scientists to confirm theories of planet formation." -Dr. Megan
For readability and space, we don't typically list all the added objects (TOI-1301.01, TOI-1630.01, etc.). Browse official sites such as NASA's Exoplanet Archive or SIMBAD, and any entry older than a month or so (Dec 18th for this round) is more than likely already in-engine!
Changelog:
- Updated the exoplanet and host star catalog, naming convention of Gliese objects
- Added an option to the configuration files to show/disable the seizure warning called ShowSeizureWarning. See our previous Beta post for specific instructions to enable/disable!
