'Cause all planets have a killzone which the ship AI recognizes as an atmosphere. Otherwise you'd bump into the planet surface and bounce back (which, incidentally, happened to me in a Hege on New Berlin once).
For suns it's called a Corona, even for dead suns that don't have that anymore.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.