Achenar is the real and notable star Alpha Eridani, in case you want to put it in its actual, correct place! It's the bulgiest star known.

The name is actually AcheRnar, and is among the brightest stars as seen from earth, but certainly not the Bulgiest. It's a B3V, so it's actually main-sequence and cannot even compete with type III stars, left alone type I like Antares or Betelgeuse (Unless by bulgy you mean massive. Archernar certainly got a lot of that...)

B-stars are pretty hot, not that much chance of finding a habitable planet according to current models, but then again, current models are undergoing severe criticism by real-life Exo-planets...

A BV would be a nice place for a Sudarski II giant though, that might sport a habitable moon... The Goldylocks zone would probably be somewhere between 30 and 40 AU. Big system, might take a while to fly around in... 😀

Achenar is an alternative spelling, not an incorrect one (and that's mentioned on pretty much every source).

By bulgiest, I do not mean massive, and I do not mean bright. I mean bulgy. It bulges at the equator, because it spins extremely quickly. No bulgier star is known. I'm actually kind of surprised that my spell checker knows the words bulgy, bulgier and bulgiest. (-:

Your spellchecker's definitaley better than me! 😆 So yeah, you're right. My first association when hearing "bulgy" mislead me.

Looks like I learn something new every day... two things today, actually, considering "bulgy".

Except for the one you linked to hehe.

We already have this star:

Hard to find since we use the *correct* location, not some made up crap like frontier/FFE 😉

@Fluffy :

Specifically with overflows, I know the albedo values and greenhouse gass values tend to overflow for strange results...cold planets next to a sun ect.

Quite a few cases of impossible orbits, things rotating too fast, that sort of thing... Although I personally aint too bothered about them as they are very interesting planets when you find one 🙂 Like the planet we found with such a high rotation that you couldnt stay still without set-speed, it would fling you out of its atmosphere 🙂

Overflowing greenhouse effects? Tell me about it... Seems to be a trouble with near any system generator, including my modified StarGen code.

Perhaps a yellow or red tinge to the atmospheres with high concentrations of greenhouse gases

Oh, the problem is not the visual representation, the problem is calculating a runaway greenhouse effect and know when to stop... 😆

solar shade sails i think are needed or perhaps a few ice asteroids towed into place ( mission idea for a super capital ship drag comets to the hot planet to cool em down spore style rofl)