Chara

Astronomy student, amateur artist. I like drawing personified celestial bodies.

[apatheticgh0st]

Moon and a tinier moon!

[astronochara]

"We pray for bountiful seadust, for bountiful firedust, to make our energy, to make our homes, to make our dresses, to pay rain to the ground..."

Rough translation of a lullaby sung by the HbiniAmo 2 Spring Pattern peoples.

[meisyuu0]

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・Hello everybody! I wanted to draw @heliosphere-underthesky 's Uranus!!

・He is so cute, I love seeing him interact with the other planets!!

・I like to imagine him meeting my own Uranus. ໒꒰ྀི๑ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ๑꒱ྀིა

[astronochara]

Today, a paper on performing direct spectroscopy on GJ 504 b was published (Baburaj et al. 2026), revealing many interesting things about this planet, so I decided to draw it!

I like calling it "Sakura", hence that symbol.

[taiyokei]

Some comic strip based off the readjusted true-colour approx. of Uranus and Neptune by Professor Patrick Irwin and his team

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

it’s kinda cool how our generation has created actual tone in the way we write online. like whether we: write properly with perfect grammar, shrthnd everythin, use capitals to emphasise The Point, use extra letters or characters for emotion!!!!!, and much more - it means we can have casual conversations, effectively make jokes using things like sarcasm that’s usually hard to understand without context and much more. this “incorrect English” has really opened avenues of online conversation that isn’t accessible with “correct English” which is pretty interesting

[maskedlinguist]

#this is why attempts by the media to portray online communication by “’‘millenials”“ really frustrate me #because there are Rules okay #like see that’s different to saying ’'there are rules” (tags via @soaringsparrows)

[dipthong-prime]

My class and I literally taught some of the nuances of this to our english teacher, things such as the difference between “yes” and “yes.” or “..” and “…”. It makes perfect sense linguistically that we would create this complexity to ease communication in a medium without body language and tone, but what my teacher was really floored about was that none of this had ever “learned” it, we’re “native speakers” of a whole new type of english.

[memefo]

[astronochara]

A fictional depiction of the dwarf planet Haumea. The red spot found in 2009 is interpreted as a crater. The craters on its surface exhibit diverse morphologies due to the shape of the planet and the resulting differences in environment. The cooling history of Haumea also created numerous ridges and cracks to form. Finally, the rings of Haumea created an equatorial deposit as the particles rain down.

[astronochara]

Venus, our inner neighboring planet.

[astronochara]

Ganymede and Callisto, Jupiter's largest satellites.

[astronochara]

I decided to start drawing a bunch of planets suggested by friends. Here’s the first two: Triton and Pluto, two fairly similar planets in the outer Solar System.

[spacetelescopescience]

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope show an abundance of methane and carbon dioxide, and shortage of ammonia, in exoplanet K2-18 b’s atmosphere. These results hint at the presence of an ocean underneath the exoplanet’s hydrogen-rich atmosphere.

While K2-18 b orbits its star’s habitable zone and is now known to harbor carbon-bearing molecules, this does not necessarily mean that the planet can support life. The high level of activity of its red dwarf star means K2-18 b may have a more hostile environment than Earth and is likely to be exposed to more radiation.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge).

[astronochara]

Based on skimming the paper results and discussing with a friend, K2-18 b is turning out to be a warmer Neptune. Expected, but definitely very cool to learn about.

[astronochara]

Jupiter, a Sudarsky Class I gas giant, depicted the same way Sudarsky Class II planets are often depicted. In reality the water cloud habitable zone gas giants are most likely going to appear very much like Jupiter and Saturn do.