#gravitational collapse

[starflungwaddledee]

a light shines through a cloud of colour fumes and i can feel the warmth of the sun

Gravity, let me go ♫⋆｡♪ destroyer - of monsters and men

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[zespaceblog]

NGC 6934 - Globular Cluster

While JWST searches for some of the most ancient objects in our universe, we have 150 of some of the oldest objects right here in our own Galaxy, called Globular Clusters.

What we do know about these amazing structures is that contain 100's thousands if not millions of ancient stars, some thought to go right back to within a billion years of the universe's creation, while others like NGC 6934 show a little more complexity in the metals, suggesting a slightly younger, but still rather old, 10 billion years.

The cluster has a highly eccentric orbit at 0.81 around our galaxy, similar to what you'd see with comets, and is thought to also sport a bit of a tail, although in this case it will be a tail of stars, the stars being slowly kicked out of the cluster by coming too close to others and being gravitationally kicked out.

As a result of the orbit, these objects tend to hang out in the halo, far from the main spiral structure, the entire image is around 50 light years only, so try to imagine hundreds of thousands of stars all fit within this 50 light year space, getting gradually more dense towards the centre.

Some theories suggest that the black holes from stars long since gone supernova, will have sunk to the centre, creating what is known as gravitational collapse, the beginnings of a intermediate black hole, although all the observations to date have found many black holes and not the collapse you'd certainly expect to see given the age of these objects.

Finally to imagine a night sky if our star was within such a globular cluster, image posted on Reddit by u/anadampapadam.

[artistsoftheunknown]

QnoA II

What am I but a disembodied voice echoing across endless algorithms?

[starflungwaddledee]

a star system is a small number of stars that orbit each other, bound by gravitational attraction. a larger group of stars is generally called a star cluster or a galaxy, although broadly speaking these are still star systems. at the centre of galaxies, one can commonly find supermassive black holes.

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[starflungwaddledee]

would morpho knight be eligible for the shipagaza 👀

ah, yes, it sure is! in fact,

dancing with death seems like something she's a little too comfortable doing

*✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ valentines shipaganza masterpost ✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ⋆˙⟡

[starflungwaddledee]

*ahem* *cracks knuckles* *rolls shoulders* *taps mic*

Galastruck.

and i promise i’ll write 'i love you' with my fingers on your sleeping hand and when that fox howls i’ll howl with it in its cries i’ll find an end

🩸 happy valentine's day! 🩸

*✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ valentines shipaganza masterpost ✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ⋆˙⟡

static images for the above animation!

[starflungwaddledee]

Starstruck dee x Meta knight!! tasty sadd!!!

i always fall for the poetic liars, faulty wires, sandcastles and fairy tales deep down i think it's all i deserve, believing words will do what they say they will holding on to you is like guarding a grenade slow dancing on land mines, it's only a matter of time oh but i can't resist, i can't resist 🎵 landmines - BELLSAINT 🎶

once again the shipaganza's most requested (the rest were anonymous, but thank you!), so i'm using this one to formally wrap it up this year! spectacular victory for meta knight i think. tasty sadd, hope you enjoy!

*✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ valentines shipaganza masterpost ✩˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ ⋆˙⟡

[starflungwaddledee]

🐛 (Caterpillar) - What are your OC’s greatest fears, and why? How do they act or react when they’re afraid?

For starstruck

her fears and tears certainly drown out her comforts. requested fear response loading in 3, 2, 1....

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