A red star and a blue star shine colored light down on two different sides of a planet. A small moon is colliding with the planet, causing a shockwave across its surface.

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Update 28.2

Stars have new Absolute and Apparent Magnitude properties, which measure their brightness from different distances. This minor update also includes improvements to black hole collisions, object trails, and bug fixes.

Stellar Magnitudes

Stars now have both Apparent and Absolute Magnitude properties, which are measures of the brightness of a star, under Properties > Temperature. Learn more in our new Stellar Magnitudes guide: Guides > Science > Stellar Magnitudes.

More Highlights

  • Colliding black holes now compute the correct Schwarzschild radius
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  • Trails for objects are no longer broken and jagged when an object is set as the trail center
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  • Starlight color on nearby objects now updates in real-time
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  • Human scale objects are now simply heated by stars and supernovae to better reflect their temperature in space
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  • Created a new guide about object oblateness and its effect on gravitational fields under: Guides > Science > Non-Spherical Gravitational Fields

This update includes 3+ additions and 13+ fixes and improvements.

Check out the full list of What’s New in Update 28.2

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