Can see Sparks and Smoke from infinite distance

I'm not seeing things, despite what some may think of my nocturnal forum posting habits. However, I have (at times) had a graphical effect of a distant fire in space that appears to follow and remain just ahead and to the right as though a couple hundred meters away. I can rotate to get it directly ahead of me and never catch it and turn away from it.

When it first appeared I had done one of the ship salvage missions with the ship in the shipyard that needed to be scrapped. Several of the blocks were on fire and after dismantling those blocks the effect went away (as expected) but then I picked up this effect as though the engine was still trying to draw the distant fire effect. I'm on a clean load since then (several in fact) but when in space it eventually reappears and just follows me around.

Foo Fighters in Space?

I see a weird particle effect in the sky over Verdure. It looks like tiny black smoke puffs that keep appearing in 2 very specific spots.

They are just up and right of my crosshairs. if you shift between the screenshots provided, you can see the effect change.

More information: If you fly up into space, you can still barely see them against the skybox. Hard to see because, you know, black on black.. but they ARE there. Plus you can see little tiny sparks occasionally.

Flying out to see if I can find it.

flying around while doing missions I came to see some small artifacts/things that I could not identify what was. one time I tried to go to it and it disappeared after I looked away to look at Verdure. the second time I recorded and I never reached it, and it did not changed how it looked, as if the distance was not changing for this glitch.

here is the video

https://youtu.be/tQNnOJn8UHQ

There's a visual bug where damaged and burning objects are way too visible from a great distance. It would make much more sense if there were just a column of smoke rising into the atmosphere instead.

im currently in the process of trying to move a character through a creative world towards visibly damaged (on fire and smoldering) grids, which ... so far are over 5,000km away.

im trying to pinpoint the location with spectator, but... its rough.

this is one of my first creative save files, and within it i have chased down unknown ships to test builds, and traveled around collecting ore for testing mining rigs... so there is a high probability that at least one of these dumpster fires are drifting effectively away from me but still showing their visuals at ridiculous range...

i was just thinking this could be one of the reasons the game starts to get stuttery and filled with bloat grids that dont get cleaned up by the games "janitor" as it is.

unlocking character owned grid lists and the ability to unclaim them so they can be swept away might just fix multiple issues.

hes a link to a video i made where you can just see them in the distance.

https://youtu.be/h6ttZArQT2A

Issue: After ~15 hours of survival gameplay over the course of a week, my world has begun experiencing microstutters. Starting a new world eliminates the issue completely, so the problem appears to be isolated to this specific save.

The only noticeable change over time is a visual anomaly: what looks like grinder particle effects appearing in the skybox at extreme distances. These artifacts have been present since day one, but they have steadily increased in number as the world has progressed. They are now visible even in space, and the quantity has grown significantly compared to when the world was new.

My theory is that these particle effects are not despawning correctly and are accumulating in the world, eventually causing performance degradation. The attached screenshot does not fully capture the severity of the issue, but it shows the type of particle effect that is appearing.

Note: The screenshot is only a minimal example — the actual number of skybox particles is much higher and continues to increase over time.

I've noticed some weird rotating explosions in the sky. I've started noticing them after I built my first hydrogen thruster ship, so maybe they are an rendering artefact from that?

I'ts hard to see on a screenshot, but the site doesn't accept my video capture, so I've attached two screenshots where I highlighted the explosions with a red circle around them.

Mode: Creative

Description: While testing grids on pole of Verdur, smoke animation is observed in the sky. Investigated by flying towards the smoke in F8 mode. Found random encounter grid (burning) on asteroid near Kemik. JPG screenshot taken and the smoke clouded in red in MS Paint.

Game play prior to this discovery: Fly over to Kemik in camera mode (F8) and spawn character (Ctrl + Space). Random encounters (grid) showed up while in the space near the planet.

It makes no sense to play animation for grids so far away.