Recent content by TkyToaster

Thanks for replying so quickly and completely. You confirmed what I suspected about viewing stars from the surface of a ringed planet. I wanted to drop a hint that maybe the planet was Mars, where the terra forming had failed, and maybe that blue star mostly hidden by the rings was Earth. It...

I am writing a novel set on a ringed planet. The plot calls for the rings to be about a thousand years young, more a torus of gas and dust and speeding moonlets. Would a person standing on the night side of this planet be able to see stars? Or would the rings scatter enough light from the sun...