On January 23, Sean Murray tweeted a singular emoji, 🪐. Just one day later, No Man's Sky developer Hello Games retweeted his post, attaching the same Saturn emoji. Murray also retweeted his original post, but with three of the emojis. And just yesterday, he retweeted a photo of Saturn, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, again with the emoji.
He's clearly teasing something, and fans think it might be as obvious as a gas giant update.
Saturn, which the emoji depicts, is one such Jovian planet, and Murray has a history of teasing new expansions with emojis. He posted a globe emoji for the Worlds Part 1 update and a cursing emoji for The Cursed update. But how gas giants would work in No Man's Sky is another question.
You can't exactly land on a gas giant. If you were to miraculously survive the 200,000-mile radius of Jupiter's radiation belts (which are equivalent to 100 million X-rays), you would have to brave its pulverizing pressure, which is nearly 100 times what we're used to on the Earth's surface.
Venture any lower, and you'd plummet into a searing core measured at over 20,000 degrees Celsius. If your ship could weather...
