This Is Why I’m So Excited For The Supernova Chapter Ehehe

They’re so lonely :(

Wait I guess that means I’m an electron since I’m #foreveralone. I feel like I should be sad about this but electrons are cool so I can’t really be lol.

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Poor electrons

So I actually did the calculations and the surface area of Jupiter could probably fit around 11,474,491,000,000 football fields.

Okay so I googled it and the radius of Jupiter is 43,441 miles. However, I’m going to convert that into meters, which’ll make that radius a cool 69,911,513 m. Next up I’ll plug that into the surface area of a sphere formula (A= 4πr^2) which will get us approximately 6.14 x 10^16 m^2 (or roughly 61,400,000,000,000,000 m^2).

Next, I found the area of one football field to be around 5,351 m^2. Dividing the surface area of Jupiter by the surface area of one football field, we can find out how many football fields will fit onto the surface of Jupiter. And that is 1.1474491 x 10^13. Calculating that, that will be 11,474,491,000,000 football fields (11 trillion or so). Oh boy.

For comparison’s sake, the universe is estimated to have AT MOST 2 trillion galaxies! Which means that Jupiter likely could fit more football fields than the universe has galaxies. Another example, there are an estimated billion trillion stars in the observable universe. Jupiter’s football fields account for half of the stars in our observable universe.

I actually tried to find out how many football fields were in the U.S. for comparison but I still can’t find a statistic. 

But also that’s pretty hilarious xD

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No WaY

Poor, poor moon :(

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“boy, girl, time for dinner!”

Omg that’s hilarious xD

Cuz the way the second equation is written assumes that the c^2 in the mass-energy equivalence equation is actually the c^2 from the Pythagorean Theorem when it’s actually just the speed of light (squared, since c IS the speed of light).

I do love the Pythagorean Theorem though, even though (don’t come after me) I prefer the version where you take the square root of both sides so it’s c = sqrt(a^2 + b^2). It’s just easier!

Nerd rant, over.

(Also, can you imagine Einstein, Hawking, and Neil being friends!? It’s like my dream come true)

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Genius?

Omg ;D

I love that so much.

Now I really want Magical Girls who represent each stage in a star’s life. Where’s my Magical Girl Neutron Star!?

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concept: team of magical girls who each study a different branch of chemistry at university and their magical powers are based on their branch of study. watch out for physchem, she can do weird quantum shit

Woah :o

So, basically, like the Mission Space ride at Epcot (that one is my favoriteeeee)?

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Testing and Training on the Boeing Starliner : NASA astronaut Mike Fincke works through a check list inside a mockup of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner during a simulation at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Aug. 21, 2019. (via NASA)

Dark matter is one of my favorite mysteries in Astrophysics, oh I would just love to study it. Some are using particle accelerators to try to study DM and figure out what it is - and it’s so so exciting!!!

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I love this meme format

Update on The Life of a Star, Chapter 7

So I’m a little over halfway done (I should be ready for some editing on Saturday) with this chapter and I think this might be my one longest yet! My current longest is Chapter 6, with 1,245 words. I’m currently at around 700 words with this one, and I’ve got at least 400 more to go. Anyway, I’m really excited for this one. We’ll be touching on nebulae again, and finally addressing our first ending for a star. 

We’ve only got three more chapters left, plus a possible one for additional topics. I’ll be sad to end this one, but I’m starting to gather ideas for the next book. Maybe on the methods of observing the universe? Maybe on random astrophysics topics? Perhaps one on galaxies? Cosmology? The Four Fundamental Forces? Haven’t decided yet xD

I think you’ll all really like these last chapters I have planned, or at least I hope you do. Thanks for reading :)

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I'm watching the launch now, half an hour to go!

This is the first NASA astronaut launch since 2011. I wanted to go to Cape Canaveral to watch but instead I'm watching from afar :)

(Edit: they’ve put off the launch till Saturday due to weather)

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I was researching nebulae for my next article and I wanted to share some images for you guys :)

Nebula are some of the most beautiful things in space. We mostly focused on galaxies and the stars within them, but we forget that in-between galaxies exists the interstellar medium. This is where the nebulae live.

Hope you enjoyed!

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