𝑫𝒂𝒘𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔,

The one about wishing stars...

My identity as a star is built upon the foundation of the scientific understanding of what a star is, and how it behaves "tangibly". That is to say, when this mortal flesh disperses, my body's form will not be in the cartoonish depiction of a five point star (⭐), rather, I'll become a large ball of gas and other minor elements, burning billions of miles away from here. I am aware that identities founded on the slippery slope of science can be tricky, but I think I find a happy medium.

With that said, I also embrace the human conceptions of what a star is, what they use us for. In particular, I relish in the idea of being a wishing star. In fact, I'm so endeared by the notion, my ask box is actually intended for it. I accept wishes :] And then I work my stuff, to the fullest extent of my power!

If I Don’t Talk About Sky Food I Will Explode

(/j)

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

☁️ 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

⭐️ Stars - Konpeitō! It’s 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 haven’t tried them personally though)

☀️ Stars - I feel like ‘cute little sky dots’ and ‘massive balls of ‘fire’’ hit different lol- I feel like massive balls of ‘fire’ would be spicy but I have no idea what would fit that

🌌 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 don’t recommend it in large amounts

If anyone could point me in the direction of healthier space foods that would be much appreciated X3

𝑴𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍...

@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).

WHAT IS A DARK MATTER STAR??

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 aren’t even sure exists. These stellar objects, called dark stars, might have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the self-annihilation of dark matter—the 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. “If you find a new kind of star, that’s huge,” says study co-author Katherine Freese, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin.

The researchers can’t yet prove that the objects are dark stars—only that their characteristics are consistent with their being either dark stars or galaxies populated by regular fusion-powered stars. JWST’s 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. “We hope we are going to find one of these dark stars with the Webb within its lifetime,” Ilie says.

There are two possibilities for how the first stars in the universe formed. The conventional wisdom is that these early stars were “Population III” stars. Such stars would have been powered by nuclear fusion, like stars today, but they would have had very little to no metal in them—in astronomy, that means elements heavier than helium—because 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 universe’s 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 don’t know what it’s 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 star’s formation and continued growth.

These stars would have formed at the center of “minihaloes,” 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.

Originally published on https://www.scientificamerican.com

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, March 26th, 2025)

"WHAT IS THE OLDEST KNOWN GALAXY??"

Me

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

I like that!! I love "beyond comprehension", anything that speaks to the vastness of space is really cool :}

I wonder what other celestials/sidereals/starkin refer to space as? I love "the infinity", it feels the most appropriate to me.

Polaris, The North Star

The Lovers

Kaja Horvat, 2024

I'm so deeply in love with the moon. And I don't mean that in a "oh she's so pretty" way. I'm wholeheartedly in love with her. And she knows, this is no blushing secret. She's deeply admired, and truthfully, she's pretty graceful about it.

I'm not particularly polyamorous, but I will say, the fact that she's beloved by so many (the other stars, sol, mortal creatures) brings me great joy. Her majesty is very likely unanimously adored by any and everything that can perceive her. I think it is only natural and correct that she, effervescent and splendorous, is so cherished.