#a distant galaxy

[regular-gnome]

Hmm do the archvist sleep? I mean we saw the collector sleep so maybe they need to, if so do they dream?

They don't need it to survive, but they can and do get tired. Also, in the back my take on the lore, how it started and the origin of the guidebook:P

and a brief curseofhyperfixation's Sirius cameo, check out their arts too!

[blueiscoool]

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Earendel, The Most Distant Star Ever Detected

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals the star to be a massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous.

The star, which the research team has dubbed Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and is detectable only due to the combined power of human technology and nature via an effect called gravitational lensing. Both Hubble and Webb were able to detect Earendel due to its lucky alignment behind a wrinkle in space-time created by the massive galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. The galaxy cluster, located between us and Earendel, is so massive that it warps the fabric of space itself, which produces a magnifying effect, allowing astronomers to look through the cluster like a magnifying glass.

While other features in the galaxy appear multiple times due to the gravitational lensing, Earendel only appears as a single point of light even in Webb’s high-resolution infrared imaging. Based on this, astronomers determine the object is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000, and thus is extremely small – the most distant star ever detected, observed 1 billion years after the big bang. The previous record-holder for the most distant star was detected by Hubble and observed around 4 billion years after the big bang. Another research team using Webb recently identified a gravitationally lensed star they nicknamed Quyllur, a red giant star observed 3 billion years after the big bang.

Stars as massive as Earendel often have companions. Astronomers did not expect Webb to reveal any companions of Earendel since they would be so close together and indistinguishable on the sky. However, based solely on the colors of Earendel, astronomers think they see hints of a cooler, redder companion star. This light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe to wavelengths longer than Hubble’s instruments can detect, and so was only detectable with Webb.

[bikananjarrus]

if i think too long about ezra being all alone in wild space i’ll have a breakdown

[rodspurethoughts]

Webb's Discovery: Colors of Earendel, Distant Star

James Webb Telescope discovers Earendel, the most distant star ever detected, revealing fascinating colors and potential companion.

his image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 contains the most strongly magnified galaxy known in the universe’s first billion years: the Sunrise Arc, and within that galaxy, the most distant star ever detected.The star, nicknamed Earendel, was first discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. Follow-up observations using Webb’s NIRCam…

[chibinotan]

Infrared Lens

[abluehappyface]

The fifth and final of the Junko works. It's the obligatory space cover because there's no way we're doing LOLK without one. Despite me using the same exact instruments I always use, this came out very different from my usual space covers. It's very calm, whereas other space covers feel just a bit more upbeat. Junko and Hecatia both got unique space covers huh?

[checcellate-truffels]

I made a Kirana edit on behalf of the final arc because fck K*izo

[kilowogcore]

I ain't sayin' he's always wrong. But if Hal's right, then other people who are more worth listenin' too are also right.

Now here's some more news, where is Dex-Starr? Why ain't Dex-Starr in comics no more? We want Dex-Starr! Dex-Starr oughta get his own comic, not Hal Jordan. Maybe with me in it. Dex-Star and Kilowog, space friends. Yeah...

[euesworld]

"I could be at the furthest reaches of space and if I could just hear one heartbeat, yours, I wouldn't feel alone at all.."

I could never feel alone with such a beautiful sound in my ears - eUë

[robotsprinkles]

being a complete idiot and deciding to both take the star saber's name literally and use the line from the covenant of primus about the requiem blaster drawing power from the hearts of stars to give them ridiculous numbers in my fic

(the star saber's blade being 15 million kelvin and its blade-cast wave attack things being something like 210,000K, and the requiem blaster's beams being 10 million kelvin, which are both utterly stupid)

in my defense, both were made by the primes to fight unicron. And since the earth's core is about 5400C and jupiter's is 19700C, unicron needs to be able to withstand at least that much temperature in order to eat them without being damaged (ignoring paracausality and magic), therefore the star saber and requiem blaster's attacks need to be hot enough to overcome that heat resistance

(as to how people can wield them without immediately melting themselves and everything around them into slag and also not cause atmospheric ignition I'm handwaving it as the weapons creating some kind of field around the blade/beam that prevents the heat from conducting/radiating into the surrounding atmosphere

and "no one knows how it works and it's one of the reasons people think the primes were real and also gods/demigods" and "atheistic theories of cybertronian history posit that the primes/guiding hand/alternity/cloud/covenant/etc were simply cybertronians that had reached class 12/1 on the technological development scale and become capable of manipulating the physical forces of reality")

[i-want-to-be-spaghettified]

It’s crazy y’know

That we live right now I mean

Out of sheer luck we just so happened to be born at the perfect time to view the universe

In the future when people look up into the sky there will be a distinct lack of visible galaxies and twinkling lights

The expansion of space is accelerating. One day we won’t be able to see anything but a dark empty sky

But today? Today we see dazzling stars amidst a collection of marvels that span space and time

Idk it’s just crazy

Makes life a little more tolerable, knowing that you were born at a time where you could look up at the stars and see unimaginable wonders that existed well before your years

[aeontriad]

Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies

[trollbreak]

Anyways now that I’m actually putting thought into my current fleet guys I wanna clink em together with other folks but all my energy just vanished which is honestly a tragedy

[gideonisms]

my fear of roaches is so severe now....yes I CAN grab them with a paper towel and throw them outside without breaking a sweat and yes I AM the bug catcher in most of my living situations but I'm dying inside and if a hot girl WANTED to fall in love with me and catch them for me from now on I would Not say no

[chronomally]

I'm like obsessed with this woman