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Note from my own lazy research: Barnard's Star is a BY Draconis variable star, which means its brightness mainly varies due to sunspots. We've also found that it emits intense flares too:

From Wikipedia: In 1998, astronomers observed an intense stellar flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a flare star. (http://www.astronomy.com/news/2005/11/a-flare-for-barnards-star)

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26 minutes ago, Hypercosmic said:

Note from my own lazy research: Barnard's Star is a BY Draconis variable star, which means its brightness mainly varies due to sunspots. We've also found that it emits intense flares too:

From Wikipedia: In 1998, astronomers observed an intense stellar flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a flare star. (http://www.astronomy.com/news/2005/11/a-flare-for-barnards-star)

Cool. I'm going to make Barnard's Star b have a weak magnetosphere, so that its atmosphere will be pretty thin. I worked too hard on that texture to cover it up with atmospheric haze!

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I started reading some more about the color of atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets, and I realized that the color of some of the atmospheres in REX are less than realistic. For example, Tau Ceti e's atmospheric color is too blue, and should be more pale and more yellow. Here is how Tau Ceti e looks like before and after the color change:

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I personally like the muted colors more.

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