Spending The Entire Day Writing One Paragraph

Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?

since when has a scientific model been a religion?

heliocentrism, at it's core, is simply the idea that we, and all the other planets, orbit around the sun, as opposed to the sun and planets orbiting around us.

the idea itself was persecuted by Catholics when it was first theorized, and the guy who though of it was burnt alive iirk. Galileo supported the idea and was then put under house arrest by the Pope.

how can a model of the universe, based off of scientific evidence, be religious? it just doesn't make sense.

my brain is rotting people actually think heliocentrism is. a religion??? what??? why????

girl geocentrism is outdated by hundreds of years!!! what is up with flat earthers and equating everything they don't believe in to a religion.

this was. rather Strange but i like ranting about silly things. and Space

If your apology involves degrading yourself, calling yourself shit or insulting yourself, its not an apology, try again.

Our houses are built with the sciences, our wall are painted with the arts.

“the arts and sciences are completely separate fields that should be pitted against each other” the overlap of the arts and sciences make up our entire perceivable reality they r fucking on the couch

Not today bucko

today is not my birthday

if this gets 1000 notes by March I'll uh. get a therapist. and y'all aren't allowed to reblog more than three times, I know what my friends would do

edit: to 1000 because my friends will try to get to 100 in the comments

officialandreousaccount becomes oicinrouccoun

My name is is now Oicin Rouccoun. Kinda sounds like Oicin Raccoon. Do not call me Oicin Raccoon.

Imma do this because I’m fucking bored.

What’s your url?

Now take away any and all numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0), take away the letters F, Z, M, Q, L, H, B, T, P, E, A, Y, S, B, D, and X, take away all dashes (-),

What’s your new fucked up version of your url?

crustycreature

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Which star is the closest to us ?

I don't mean The Sun or Proxima Centauri, which are the closest stars, I mean in the image above, which star is the closest ?

Of course, I left out the names and the constellations on purpose, because when you look up in the night sky, unless you've got Stellarium (or similar) as an app on your phone, you're not going to see names and the lines which our ancestors made up for story telling.

Maybe it's the brightest one in the middle ? But then, how do you know if that's a massive star far away, or a smaller one really close ?

Thankfully, our orbit around the Sun is going to help us.

Parallax allows us to see which stars are closer and further based on how much they move between 6 months. This works great for the closer stars, but not so much the more distant ones and especially not the other galaxies, however there are other methods for finding which of them are closer, but for now, we're only interested in the closest stars, so simple maths and observations over a period of time can assist us.

Have you ever wondered what our Sun would look like in the night sky of another planet orbiting another star ? Truth is, when you look at those stars in that image above, almost all of them, the answer would be "You couldn't see it, it's not bright enough!"

Truth is, most of the stars we see in our night sky are larger and brighter than ours, at 32.5 light years our Star would be magnitude 4.83, just inside our naked eye ability.

The red square represents the upper image, zoomed out to better reflect what you could see with your naked eye. The tiny dot that the yellow arrow is pointed to, is the same brightness our Sun would be in the night sky of a planet 32.5 light years away.

Why 32.5 ? Well, the brightness of stars in the sky are ranked by Magnitude, the lower the number, the brighter, in fact, each integer is 2.5 times brighter than the one above it. What we see with our eyes we call Apparent Magnitude, but given some fun maths, we can take each star, pull it 10 parsecs (32.5 light years) from us, and imagine how bright it would be, this is known as the Absolute Magnitude.

Getting back to our original question, which was the closest, you'll already begin to understand the brightest stars are not necessarily the closest, using parallax we can really find out, and as some of you may have guessed already, it's the one you couldn't see with your naked eye.

Just 5.96 light years from us, but at apparent Mag 9.51 quite invisible to the naked eye. While the brightest Cebalrai was 81 light years, still close in terms of our Milky Way, but when you next look up, and see a sky full of stars, remember, you're only seeing the bright ones, there's thousands of times more quite close by, you simply cannot see.

That's a real relief to here. I'm always scared ðat I'm just screamiŋ into ðe void. To know I'm not alone, and not beiŋ annoyiŋ is niçe.

Does it get annoying with me asking so many questions and responding to so many of your posts?

No. It's actually great to see you interact wiþ our posts.