And while I'm here, you should definitely send me your wishes in my ask box. I am a star, I am to be wished upon!!
@mondaysmournings - tee hee, this is about you..!
... And one of my favorite things is hearing about his home. It isn't my business to tell his story, but one thing I've gleaned from hymn describing angelic hierarchy and the purpose of angels is that they're very different from stars, and how we operate. I find it fascinating to tell you the truth, I sometimes wish I could see it.
... Stars are watchers, at the end of the day. And though I'm certainly not human thing, involved in this flesh, I am overcome with curiosity, that which is most characteristic of the human condition.
... But I digress. I'll admit, I do find it odd how strict things seem to be in heaven, generally. I understand that's simply the nature of a divine that I don't comprehend, I'm fine with that. But I'd imagine there must be some comfort to the structure, and I respect that too. Honestly, I might even be a little envious, though lightheartedly so.
... In general, angels fascinate me :] I am here primarily to connect with stars, celestials, planets, and sidereals, but I appreciate the vague space we share, conceptually (or rather, as far as the concepts I interpret is to share are concerned).
ββ Call me 'S'. Twenties. Sidereal/Starkin. οΉβΉοΉΦΉ
ββ Ey/Em/Eirs. Transmasc. Black. Queer. οΉβΉοΉΦΉ
ββ Young (low billions) Milky Way star, ever present witness, lover of the Moon and earthlings. οΉβΉοΉΦΉ
Boundaries κβΆ Directory κβΆ Wish Making οΉβΉοΉΦΉ
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For whatever reason I crave consuming like, clouds and nebulas and stars and wanted to share my brewing ideas for how to mimic that :3
βοΈ Clouds - Pretty obvious but cotton candy. Biting into cotton candy is essentially like biting into a cloud. I think whipped cream could also satisfy this in some way tho
βοΈ Stars - KonpeitΕ! Itβs a Japanese candy that you may recognize from Mario Galaxy or Spirited Away; very star coded and I think they would work well for any star consuming urges (I havenβt tried them personally though)
βοΈ Stars - I feel like βcute little sky dotsβ and βmassive balls of βfireββ hit different lol- I feel like massive balls of βfireβ would be spicy but I have no idea what would fit that
π Galaxies - Space themed sprinkles!!! If you think you can handle it I feel like eating just. Icing with sprinkles can have galaxy vibes but I donβt recommend it in large amounts
If anyone could point me in the direction of healthier space foods that would be much appreciated X3
πΊππππππππ πππππ ππππ ππ ππππ π° ππ πππππππ πππ πππππ πππ. Stars in appear high above us, but that is because space is relative. In reality, they (we) are simply everywhere. All around space. And in that sense, I too am amongst them, even as I am attached to this planet.
Something comes over me, though. Something about the moon overhead, winking behind ashen clouds, her lover's light reflecting off of her cratered skin, dazzling me. Making me dazzle.
The watchful eye of my kin, the humor they must feel in the irony of me, a star, watching them in kind.
Something is so delightfully wrong with me, under the pale moonlight. I am giddy and gay and mischievous. I am sinister shadow, I am pure silver brilliance. I am twinkling, inches from death. I twirl and I twirl and twirl, twirl, twirl, twirl some more, as though my axis were nothing more than a suggestion.
πΊππππππππ πππππ ππππ ππ ππππ π° ππ πππππππ πππ πππππ πππ.
I'm glad you were able to find some commonalities in your experience! It's part of why I coined/started using Sidereal in this context, there are so many ways to be a star or celestial or astro, etc.
For me, I know I will inevitably be one with space again, amongst other stars. But for now, I'm just doing my best with the body I have.
Sending love and light κβΆ!!
... You know, I've found it hard to find true disdain for this planet. Of course, I feel that same melancholic homesickness most non-earthly entities do when left to reflect too long on not being home. But, I actually do love it here, for all of the troubles and triumphs I've lived.
... I'm a Sidereal. A star fallen to Earth, whose soul and spirit mixed with the debris of this planet, thus anchoring my body to this planet. My job for now is for experience change, to change my form, and find singularity. In many ways, I'd imagine it isn't unlike stellar evolution. It is in our nature to change, then die. In that way, we're quite like human earthlings.
... So, I try to take it in stride. It's also helped by the fact that I am a Milky Way star, and specifically one near to Earth (likely only just scratching the double digits in billions light years). Stars are passive observers. I am an observer. Light takes a while to travel, yes, but of what little I can concretely remember, I've always found the evolution of human beings deeply fascinating. So getting to be part of that to a small extent is warming, I feel. It's nice.
κβΆ. leave a wish .βΆκ
Blog#490
Welcome back,
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025.
In a first, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might have glimpsed a rare type of star that astronomers arenβt even sure exists. These stellar objects, called dark stars, might have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the self-annihilation of dark matterβthe invisible stuff that is thought to make up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe.
Scientists will need more evidence to be able to confirm the candidates seen by JWST, but if these dark stars are real, the finding could change our story of how the first stars formed.
Contrary to their name, dark stars could have glowed a billion times more luminously than the sun and grown to a million times its mass. Dark stars have never been definitively observed, but cosmological simulations suggest that they should have formed soon after the big bang from clouds of pure hydrogen and helium that collapsed at the centers of protogalaxies rich in dark matter.
In July 2023 researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that at least three far-off objects observed by JWST and previously identified as galaxies could, in fact, each be a single, supermassive dark star. βIf you find a new kind of star, thatβs huge,β says study co-author Katherine Freese, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin.
The researchers canβt yet prove that the objects are dark starsβonly that their characteristics are consistent with their being either dark stars or galaxies populated by regular fusion-powered stars. JWSTβs technology is sufficient to do that job, however, says study co-author Cosmin Ilie, an astrophysicist at Colgate University.
All researchers need is more observation time. βWe hope we are going to find one of these dark stars with the Webb within its lifetime,β Ilie says.
There are two possibilities for how the first stars in the universe formed. The conventional wisdom is that these early stars were βPopulation IIIβ stars. Such stars would have been powered by nuclear fusion, like stars today, but they would have had very little to no metal in themβin astronomy, that means elements heavier than heliumβbecause those elements had not yet formed in the early universe.
There is another possibility, though. In 2008 Freese and some of her colleagues proposed that the universeβs first stars could have been powered by dark matter. Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that does not interact with electromagnetic forces; scientists know it exists only because of its gravitational effects, and they donβt know what itβs made of.
In the early universe, dark stars could have formed from the collapse of helium and hydrogen clouds made in the big bang. If dark matter particles are also their own antiparticles, as many dark matter theories posit, then within these collapsing clouds, those particles would have collided with one another and self-annihilated.
The collision would have kicked off a chain of particle decay that ended with the production of photons, electron-positron pairs and neutrinos. Only the neutrinos would have really left the cloud because they barely interact with matter. The other particles would have hit the hydrogen and helium and transferred their energy to that matter, which would have heated up the cloud and fueled the starβs formation and continued growth.
These stars would have formed at the center of βminihaloes,β which were early protogalaxies that existed 200 million years after the big bang, before the advent of elements heavier than helium and hydrogen. These minihaloes consisted almost entirely of dark matter, making conditions within them ripe to power dark stars. This high concentration of dark matter is why dark stars could form only in the early universe, Freese says.
I'm so instantly drawing to other stars, I cannot forget that this body isn't exactly keen on that. That is to say, I have got to stop glancing at the Sun. Yes, it is amusing that it is a massive star, a day star. No, that doesn't mean I can stare directly at it.
divinityβs light and warmth flows through my human form in rivers and waves, forming puddles in my joints. lakes and oceans in my ribcage flowing around my beating heart, illuminating me from within.