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GEC POI: The Zurara (megaship wreckage)

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 1d

The Zurara (megaship wreckage)

The wreckage of the Zurara, a megaship that was involved in the secretive Project Dynasty. Audio logs of the sabotage that destroyed the ship can still be retrieved from data uplinks.

Explorer Rating: 4.5 stars, 16 Votes

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GEC POI: Celestial Slingshot

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 2d

Celestial Slingshot

An ELW with an eccentric and quick orbit.

Explorer Rating: 3.45 stars, 20 Votes

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GEC POI: Gravitational Nightmare

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 3d

Gravitational Nightmare

A set of five close orbiting bodies which frequently align for stunning views, and two of which regularly collide.

Explorer Rating: 4.46 stars, 41 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 4d

Glow Bug Giant

A ringed green gas giant notable for its proximity to Colonia, and three large green bands circling its equator.

Explorer Rating: 4.07 stars, 30 Votes

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GEC POI: Glow Bug Giant

GEC POI: Shepherd's Warning

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 5d

Shepherd's Warning

A pair of icy moon colliders, one of which (2 a) has a thin argon atmosphere.

Explorer Rating: 3.18 stars, 22 Votes

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GEC POI: Gaulkhan's Reach

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 6d

Gaulkhan's Reach

A shepherd moon with geysers that orbits 1,447 km from its parent's rings.

Explorer Rating: 3.26 stars, 19 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 7d

Green Glory

A spectacular Green Gas Giant that is quite close to the human bubble.

Explorer Rating: 4.13 stars, 30 Votes

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GEC POI: Green Glory

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 8d

Ruby In The Sky

A ringed, landable ice moon with an oxygen atmosphere, orbiting a ringed Y-type brown dwarf at high inclination.

Explorer Rating: 3.61 stars, 18 Votes

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GEC POI: Ruby In The Sky

GEC POI: Fisherman and Jinni

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 9d

The final moments in case you missed it.

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LCU No Fool Like One @fool.canonn.tech · 9d

This is the culmination over over 3 year's work. The first planetary collision to wipe out a surface settlement. Datta Biological Forum on Reienadi 8 c. Very challenging to get good video because of the lighting glitches but lady luck smailed on me for the final moment! #EliteDangerous

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 9d

Fisherman and Jinni

A landable planet on a close (0.9 ls) and fast (2.1 hours) orbit around an L dwarf star.

Explorer Rating: 3.74 stars, 23 Votes

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GEC POI: Reienadi Colliders

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight at 19:10 UTC the two bodies at Reienadi will collide putting the two surface stations in grave danger. Will you be there?

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 10d

Dreamer Blush

A magnificent ringed glowing green gas giant with deep purple clouds in the Kepler's Crest region.

Explorer Rating: 4 stars, 22 Votes

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GEC POI: Dreamer Blush

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 11d

Abaddon

A massive CN carbon star with 7 ringed gas giants, including 2 'hot Jupiter' types, as well many landable moons.

Explorer Rating: 3.67 stars, 24 Votes

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GEC POI: Abaddon

GEC POI: Jo Ella's Flares

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 12d

Jo Ella's Flares

A closed binary system that consists of Neutron Pulsar and a Black Hole, on the way to Colonia. It also features good views of the nearby nebula and the other celestial bodies within the system.

Explorer Rating: 3.29 stars, 17 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 13d

Serenity

A star system, only reachable with FSD boosts, that contains a neutron star, an MIII red giant, and multiple landable planets and moons.

Explorer Rating: 3.5 stars, 20 Votes

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GEC POI: Serenity

GEC POI: Ellaisms Remnant

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 14d

Ellaisms Remnant

A small blue planetary nebula lit by a neutron star, with rare and dangerous P02-Type Anomalies in the rings of the first planet.

Explorer Rating: 4.43 stars, 21 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 15d

Egg Brûlée

An oblate Class V Gas Giant orbiting a White Dwarf completely inside its exclusion zone, passing through a jet cone every 15 minutes.

Explorer Rating: 4.38 stars, 8 Votes

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GEC POI: Egg Brûlée

GEC POI: Graveyard Ghosts

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 16d

Graveyard Ghosts

Seven types of Anomalies around black holes within 500 ly of this system: the largest and most diverse Anomaly-area in the galaxy.

Explorer Rating: 4.38 stars, 21 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 17d

Viridian Dreams

Situated very close to the Colonia Road waystation world of Rohini, this Glowing Green Gas Giant is a must-see for anyone traveling the Colonia route.

Explorer Rating: 3.86 stars, 21 Votes

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GEC POI: Viridian Dreams

GEC POI: Dancing Rings of Atabey

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 18d

Dancing Rings of Atabey

A gas giant hosting 4 water world moons, three of which are ringed.

Explorer Rating: 3.23 stars, 22 Votes

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 19d

Three's A Crowd

A quite uncommon configuration of trinary shepherd moons orbiting a helium-rich gas giant.

Explorer Rating: 3.88 stars, 25 Votes

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GEC POI: Three's A Crowd

GEC POI: The Judicator's Reach

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 20d

The Judicator's Reach

A system with fast-moving ring structures, hazardous approach zones, and stunning views, between two closely-orbiting Metal-Rich worlds and a small rocky moon passing near one of the rings.

Explorer Rating: 4 stars, 7 Votes

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GEC POI: Kepler's Fantasy

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Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 21d

Kepler's Fantasy

A planet of a binary pair that has not only incredibly narrow Taylor rings, but also a total of four moons (rare in this configuration): two in a binary pair, and the fourth with an inclined orbit.

Explorer Rating: 3.58 stars, 19 Votes

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GEC POI: Rusalka's Trilemma

Galactic Exploration Catalog @cataloggalactic.bsky.social · 22d

Rusalka's Trilemma

A ringed Gas Giant with Water-based Life circled by three watery moons: a ringed Earth-Like World, a second Earth-Like World, and a ringed Water World.

Explorer Rating: 3.32 stars, 19 Votes

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