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death of a star

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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.

photons

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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.

betelgeuse

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looks like astronomy’s back on the menu boys! ’bout time too. we’ve barely even seen sedna bust out the telescope since the first 9 comics. seriously, this is supposed to be a space comic! get your act together tom!

poor betelgeuse. people can’t talk about astronomy for 5 minutes without mentioning their desire to see this particular star violently commit suicide within their lifetimes. last year when betelgeuse dimmed significantly millions of people were chanting excitedly for this guy to hurry up and die (turned out it was just a gas cloud passing in front of it).

awfully rude. honestly.

supernova

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(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.

cancelled

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there’s regular hating school, and then there’s building-an-entire-deep-space-radio-transmitter-level hating school. sedna leans more towards column b.

interestingly, i just checked through my onenote pages and it turns out i originally wrote this comic back in august 2017 for classic sedna (i had a really large reserve of draft comics, most of which sucked). it feels kinda weird seeing it actually being published after all that time.

abducted

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hey mates! hope you all had a fun christmas and didn’t give your grandmothers covid.

i kinda like this comic. it’s simple but funny. and you could totally change the text in the first panel and turn it into a meme. if there are any young and in touch people reading this, you know what to do.

ancestors

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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?

event horizon

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hopefully non-aussies know what a hills hoist clothesline is, or this comic is gonna be real confusing.

i would be amiss if i failed to mention that ‘spaghettification’ is a real scientific term that you should totally drop whatever you’re doing and google right now. it refers to when the extreme tidal forces of a black hole stretch you into a long skinny noodles should you get too close. well, more likely it would just shred you to pieces, and you would have been well cooked by extreme heat and radiation long before you even got there, but hey, you’d be a tad too dead to appreciate the difference either way.

just stay away from black holes kids. they’re not your friends.