space girl comic
i’m just gonna drop the whole quote here before y’all accuse me of plagiarism.
“some part of our being knows this is where we came from. we long to return. and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. we’re made of star stuff. we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” – carl sagan (super smart science man)
hope i did the maths right here (thank god for wolfram alpha). i love ridiculous scale comparisons for supernovae, but there’s no beating the classic one by randall munroe (the xkcd guy):
“which of the following would be brighter:
a supernova, seen from as far away as the sun is from the earth, or
the detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?”
now i’m just waiting for some smartarse in the comments to point out that if you actually did magic a ball of tnt that large into existence it would just collapse under the weight of its own gravity and explode as a supernova anyway. shut up, it’s a thought exercise. don’t be that guy.
obviously this is a much more complex and interesting subject than i could possibly squeeze into a four panel comic, so i highly recommend you go watch the episode of ‘crash course astronomy’ on youtube about high mass stars.
also in case you thought i made a mistake with the timeline, no, a smaller star actually lasts much much longer than a larger star, as it’s much cooler and thus burns its fuel slower. while the largest stars we know of (hypergiants) last only millions of years, the smallest stars (red dwarfs) can last for trillions of years. seriously. trillions with a t.
i’ll probably do a comic about this some day, so i should shut up now before i spoil it.
who would win?
100 billion colossal nuclear deathballs
or 1 explodey boi
probably should point out that not every supernova is quite as bright as its entire galaxy (there’s not a lot of room for nuanced explanation in these comics), but the fact that it’s even comparable to hundreds of billions of stars is impossible to get your head around.
(click here for a high resolution version of this illustration)
happy 2021 mates! kicking off the year with a cute illustration which some might call a ripoff of ‘the martian’, but i prefer to think of it as a tribute. if anyone recognizes this, yes it’s the one i submitted to the clip studio illustration competition months ago (i have a large buffer).
lots of spacey stuff to be excited about this year. there’s a lunar eclipse in may, spacex starship and boeing starliner will have their first orbital flights (hopefully), and the james webb telescope (the successor to hubble) will finally launch in october (maybe), and boy are my buttcheeks gonna be clenched when that happens.
sedna is determined to try every possible avenue of getting out of doing this homework… except for actually doing it.
hope you mates all have a happy new year. yeah i know 2020 doesn’t exactly have a glowing reputation by this point, but at least we got a whole bunch of exciting rocket launches out of it. i’ll see you all again in 2021, when hopefully we get even more rocket launches!
…and less plague. that would be nice too.
of course, if it’s supernovae we’re talking about then in a way they actually are our ancestors, but that’s a comic for another time. no seriously, it’s exactly 12 comics from now. mark your calendars lads.
it’s sad that some people can’t appreciate stars without applying some weird personification or spiritual meaning to them. i mean come on, they’re colossal billion-year-old nuclear hellfire deathballs! what could possibly be more awesome than that?
:)
i usually use a star chart app to make sure the stars are accurate in each comic (based on where i live), and it just so happened that the twinkly “star” hovering over sedna’s room in the 4th panel is actually mars. i swear i didn’t plan it that way, that’s just where it happened to be when i drew this comic.
a happy little accident. (*´ω｀*)
you’d better do as she says dini, or she might hit you in the head with a rocket while you’re sleeping.
…again.
as much as i liked my school hat, that string really is just asking people to pull on it. probably explains why most kids ripped them off by the time they finished primary school. not me though. i was a good boy.