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There are a few ways to get the credits to roll and end the game in The Outer Wilds, here are a few of them.
Endings
Death before time loop
This is achieved by dying before your memories are recorded by the statue in the Observatory. You can jump in the fire, fall off a cliff, or jump in the geyser in the center because the player character can't swim.
Breaking Spacetime
In the High Energy Lab on Ember Twin you can remove the black hole from the white and black hole experiment after the scout launcher fires a probe through the white hole. Once two probes exist in the room black shattering effects cover the screen, the message "You broke the fabric of space-time" and the credits play with the song "A Terrible Fate" plays-a kazoo cover of the main theme.
Stopping the Time Loop
The Advanced Warp Core can be removed from the Ash Twin Project, this will permanently kill you by not sending the memories back in time the 22 minutes. The chamber is also one of the few rare places where you can freeze to death after the supernova passes.
Outrun the Supernova
Removing the Advanced Warp Core from the Ash Twin Project then flying out around 70km from the solar system, the supernova will fade before it can kill you. The screen will fade to black, you having died from "running out of supplies".
Quantum Moon Ending
If you remove the Advanced Warp Core, then fly to the Quantum Moon and wait at the Sixth location for the supernova, the screen will fade you black and you will be stuck along with Solanum.
Intended Ending
By getting and installing the Advanced Warp Core from the Ash Twin Project to The Vessel in Dark Bramble, powering the terminal and entering the Coordinates from the Probe Tracking Module. You must then slide the control up, teleporting you to The Eye of the Universe, once there the supernova will not reach you. Exit the vessel by sliding the power control around to the opposite side to open a black hole warp to outside the ship. Continue on the planet to the opposite pole and climb up the "crater" wall where the Quantum Moon originated from to fall into the vortex, fall down through the quantum abyss and keep going forward until you reach ground. You will have to do a few quantum tasks without the scout launcher to make a campfire, find each of the travelers with signalscope, Feldspar, Gabbro, Riebeck, Esker, Chert, and Solanum if you found her on the Quantum Moon. After finding all of the travelers that are available, talking with them will start them playing their instruments, a blue ball forms in the campfire's smoke, entering it will start the credits with a post-credit image afterward.