Space Engine Exploration - IC 1101

So, we've actually explored this galaxy a few times and we've even gone inside and found the supermassive black hole. But today I really wanted to do something a little bit different. I wanted to actually use the principles of the so-called Drake Equation and basically the equation that kind of predicts life out there in the universe and try to see if we can use this equation which is actually already implemented in space engine to try to discover some kind of life on the inside. This galaxy is so large we could actually start anywhere. But I really would like to start right in the middle very close to the central supermassive black hole.

So, we're going to go jump into this really large galaxy which is currently the record holder for the largest galaxy we've ever seen. There is like hundred trillion stars. There trillion that's about a thousand or even more times more than our own Milky Way. This galaxy is also about at least ten times bigger in terms of the actual radius than the Milky Way. Although, in our particular simulation it is actually something like thirty times bigger and we're moving it right in the middle of this. A lot of stars there are actually really older and ancient. They're over ten billion years old and for the most part when it comes to actual types of stars; all of these are actually red dwarfs and that also implies that there may be some chance at least that we might be able to discover some kind of life somewhere around some sort of red dwarf in this galaxy.

All right, so we've approached the central globular cluster and stopped right next to it and there's a lot of dust. By actually decreasing the magnitude a little bit we have started looking for life using space engine. In the space engine we started searching with the organic life. We found quite a lot of planets with life on it. Now, this was out of nine thousand two hundred stars and interestingly because of the way that the space engine calculates probability or no possibility of life on planets; this actually gives us a lot of hope for finding life out there and obviously this is organic life.

We can do the same thing for the more exotic life which is non-organic. We have four hundred sixty-six planets with life in the middle of this galaxy out of nine thousand and two hundred twenty eight. This particular system has three planets with life on it that's kind of cool! That's actually pretty insane as you will see most of these planets are type M with some being type K. These are all basically a red dwarf. There is an F-star. This is actually a little bit more similar to our own Sun and there's even a G-type star which is very similar to our Sun. But with almost majority of these being red dwarf.