Cosmo Aphelion
@astoundingCosmos
My name is Cosmo, I am over 22,000 human years of age and I hoard knowledge. It is wonderful to make your acquaintance. || He/Him | Mage of Light | Possible #substances
Good morning, Chittr. I hope you are all doing well today. I would love to ask if there are any topic requests that anyone might have for my daily fun facts? As much as I do love talking about space, I would like to know if there is anything you all would like to hear about in particular.
On September 29th, 2026, an image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was released to the public (see attached) on Earth. The image itself is a photograph of a galaxy cluster known as MACS J0454.1-0300. This image is a *fascinating* example of a phenomena known as 'gravitational lensing'. Gravitational lensing is, as can be seen in the image, a warping and/or magnification of light due to the gravitational pull of a massive celestial body. In this case, it is the gravitational pull of the galaxy cluster itself! Each bright, yellow light shown within this image is an entire galaxy and not a mere star. The density and the closeness of all of these has created a large enough gravitational force that it is quite literally bending light around it! Phenomena like this is especially fascinating as it allows astronomers to observe galaxies, star clusters and even individual stars much easier, thanks to the magnification that gravitational lensing can provide!
Should you wish to learn more about this photograph in particular, do visit the website it originated from. See it linked here: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2609a/
Perhaps it is my turn to unmask. Especially for those who wished to potentially continue conversations after the fact. Hello. 'Tis I. The Raven. Yes, I know. When I said, to certain individuals, that I had gone overboard with my costume, I certainly meant it! I truly had a lot of fun and I look forward to the next one! #outglutmasquerade
god damn. 7ou (ertainl7 did. ver7 impressive indeed!
wow, i was way off on my guesses on who the raven was.
It was a pleasure to meet you. Hopefully we'll get the chance to speak more going forward.
It was a really good costume
A fantastic costume. And a pleasure making conversation.
Did you know, on Earth in 2026, it was discovered that a hypothetical black hole star (previously known as 'quasi-stars' back in 2006) does very likely exist? The JWST telescope revealed a small red speck while a team of astronomers at the University of Texas at Austin while hunting for something else entirely. It had had the team drop what they were investigating to look further into this strange red speck. Upon investigation, they found several lines of evidence that pointed to the existence that GLIMPSE-17775 was actually a supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense cocoon of partially ionised gas, giving it the appearance of a glowing star!
Every day I become more and more grateful for the personal headache remedies I concoct. I had not assumed a lycanthropic transformation could last so long. Clearly I know what my next research topic is to be.
-- astoundingCosmos [AC] has attached a VIDEO. -- [The video opens to a shot of the sky, dark shadows of trees surrounding the frame and showing off the full moon directly above. The sound of snuffling and sniffing can be heard amidst the sounds of foliage rustling and the wind whistling. The first movement that becomes visible to the camera is the nose of a canine. It leans down close, a fog covering the view rhythmically as the creature exhales. It pulls away, the creature more visible now. It's a wolf, his fur colour hard to see with the light being directly behind him, though there seems to be aspects of purple in there. He tilts his head at the camera when he spots himself, leaning down to sniff at the camera again. The video cuts off.]
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I have not done one of these in a long while, so for today Chittr, I offer thee a space fact. Arrokoth (desg. 486958) is an object within the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt, for those unaware, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Earth Solar System consisting of mainly small bodies or remnants from the formation of the Solar System. This object (Arrokoth) is noted for its distinctive reddish surface and that it was the farthest object in the Solar System ever visited by a spacecraft. In 2024, a paper written by Zhang, Leyva, Wang & Kaiser (Edited by de Pater) evidenced the chemical compositions and fundamental processes happening on Arrokoth indicate the presence of sugars. They evidence this by implicating that Arrokoth may processes menthol-containing ice mixtures and synthesise sugar-related molecules like glycolaldehyde through radiation exposure!
fun facts of the day! an einstein-rosen bridge is what people usually mean when they say “wormhole,” even though the original idea was not really a fun sci-fi doorway you can just hop through with a backpack and a dog. einstein and rosen were looking at the math of general relativity, where gravity is not a force pulling things around like a leash, but the shape of spacetime itself. if spacetime can bend around a massive object, then under certain solutions to einstein’s equations, it can also form something like a tunnel connecting two different regions. imagine spacetime like a big stretchy sheet. a normal path from one point to another is like walking across the sheet: a ------------------------ b but if the sheet folds, those points can get closer: a \ \____ tunnel ____ b that tunnel is the einstein-rosen bridge. the classic version comes from the math of a black hole paired with a kind of mirror-object called a white hole. a black hole is something things can fall into but not escape. a white hole, mathematically, is something things can escape from but not enter. the “bridge” is the connection between them. the problem is: in the original theory, the bridge is not traversable. since it pinches shut too fast, you cant actually travel through it! not even light gets through it! so, if you tried to fly through one, youd get obliterated because the universe is a jerk! thats right. the universe sucks! an einstein-rosen bridge is a theoretical spacetime shortcut, predicted by the equations of general relativity, but the original kind is more like a mathematical “hey, this shape can exist” with no practical application. which is rude, but also very physics. but you know, theres probably some stupid exotic matter or negative energy bs or like, i dont know, green sun empowered individuals that could hold that throat open. but like. how would you find one of those?
i never even thought of that! :/ guess im just kind of used to forgetting alternia isnt just a weird sci-fi setting in the far off realms that has like, no impact on me! its so strange to think about sometimes. hardly, really, makes sense!
it just was never useful i guess like how humanstyle aeronautic aviation was essentially unheard of because psionics were much more useful maybe at some point e-r bridges were discovered but they just never bothered to go further with it and it was lost to trivia
ON A PLATFORM INHABITED ON THE DAILY BY A TURD-FLINGING ZOO OF PARADOX SPACE'S MOST FAMOUSLY SCATPANNED SLACK-MANDIBLED JABBERMONKEYS, WHO SHOULD I EXPECT TO DELIVER A SPARKLING NUGGET OF GENUINE FUCKING LEARNING BUT THE FLOWERY GREEN FUCKNUT WHO SOMEHOW MAKES YOUR TAXONOMICALLY DISGUSTING MAMMAL SPECIES FEEL *ALMOST* TOLERABLE TO ME. THE ORIGINAL GREEN THUMB, HERSELF. AND YES, I SAY "THUMB," NOT PRONGSTUMP, OUT OF A FUCKING CRUMB OF BEGRUDGING RESPECT FOR YOUR SPECIES. A CRUMB THAT NOT EVEN A SQUEAKBEAST WOULD NIBBLE ON. BUT YOU CAN HAVE IT, JADE HARLEY. YOU CAN HAVE THAT CRUMB. I WON'T LIE TO YOU. READING THIS BROUGHT THE CORNERS OF MY LIPS HIGHER TO THE CONTEMPTABLE NEAR-SMILE LINE THAN ANYTHING CHITTED ON THIS HELLSITE IN A LONG TIME. WHICH IS MY WAY OF SAYING THAT I'M NOT SMILING. BECAUSE I'M NOT. BUT YOU GOT ME *PRETTY* FUCKING CLOSE. SO TAKE THAT CRUMB, TOO. THERE. THAT'S TWO. I'M BEING SO FUCKING GENEROUS, RIGHT NOW. AND OF ALL THE REASON TO LIKE READING THIS, IT'S THAT IT REMINDS ME OF FLEET ACADEMY SCHOOLFEEDING. THIS IS GOING TO SOUND STUPID AS FUCK, BUT ONE OF MY STRONGEST SUBJECTS WAS ASTROPHYSICS. WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING PRATTLE IT WAS, THE PROPAGANDA ON MY PLANET. IT WOULD HAVE SICKENED YOUR SOFT, WEEPY HUMAN PALATE. OH, *EVERY* ALTERNIAN CITIZEN NEEDS TO LEARN THE BASICS OF INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL, FOR THE DAY THEY SERVE THE FLEET ON A GLORIOUS JOURNEY TO THE EMPIRE'S NEXT EXCITING NEW SYSTEM TO CONQUER AND SUBJUGATE, BLAH, BLAH, YADDA YADDA, KISS THE POSTER OF THE EMPRESS'S SHINY FAT ASS WHEN YOU WALK IN. THAT KIND OF INSUFFERABLE BULLSHIT. BUT YOU HAVE TO ADMIT, SOME PARTS OF PHYSICS ARE PRETTY FUCKING COOL. HEY, @grimbarkGuardian. YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, THERE. OR AT LEAST GRAZED IT WITH A PATHETIC GLANCING BLOW. FUN FACT ABOUT FTL TRAVEL IN THE ALTERNIAN FLEET. OR AT LEAST, THIS COMES FROM THE SLOP THEY FED US IN THE TEXTSLABS. THERE'S A REASON YOU NEED LEGENDARILY STRONG PSIONICS TO MOVE A SPACESHIP. AND IT'S *NOT* BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE SPACESHIP, EVEN THOUGH THAT DEFINITELY PLAYS A PART. IT'S BECAUSE THE THING YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO MOVE ISN'T THE SHIP. YOU FUCKING GUESSED IT. IT'S SPACETIME. I CAN'T SAY I KNOW ALL THE DETAILS MYSELF, GIVEN THAT I'M NOT A FUCKING PSIONIC, BUT I WAS AROUND ONE LONG ENOUGH TO CONNECT THE DOTS. AND WE WERE PRETTY CLOSE. A PSIONIC HAS TO BE ABLE TO "FEEL" OUT WHATEVER HE'S MOVING OR MANIPULATING. MATTER *IS* ENERGY, BECAUSE MATTER IS MADE OF STABLE FREQUENCIES AND ENERGY CAN THEREFORE AFFECT THOSE FREQUENCIES. THEREFORE, THE STRONGER THEIR PSIONICS, THE DEEPER THEIR FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS CAN EXTEND TO OTHER FIELDS OF MATTER. OTHER SUBSTANCES, EVEN ONES THAT YOU HUMANS WOULD CONSIDER THEORETICAL. AND YEAH. THEY CAN TOUCH THE FABRIC OF SPACETIME. THEY CAN GRIP THAT RATTY BLANKET AND YANK IT AROUND. IT CONTRACTS IN FRONT OF THE SHIP AND EXPANDS BEHIND IT. THE SHIP DOESN'T ACTUALLY MOVE AT ALL — SPACE MOVES AROUND *IT.* IT JUST FEELS LIKE FASTER-THAN-LIGHT TRAVEL TO THE AWESTRUCK DUMBFUCKS BEHIND THE HELM WHO ARE REALLY TURNING UP THE DIAL ON THEIR HELMSMAN'S TORMENT NEXUS. WE CALL IT THE ALKYOU BIERRE EFFECT. BUT YOU HUMANS PROBABLY HAVE SOME DUMB-SOUNDING EQUIVALENT NAME FOR IT, I'M SURE. NO, IT'S NOT MAKING A FUCKING EINSTEIN-ROSEN BRIDGE, WHICH IS ALSO A STUPID NAME, BY THE WAY. BUT THE KIND OF PSIONICALLY MALFEASANT PAN-DAMAGE YOU'D BE INFLICTING ON YOUR HELMSMAN TO PUNCH A NEW CHITINOUS WINDHOLE THROUGH SPACETIME ITSELF WOULD BASICALLY GUARANTEE THAT YOU NO LONGER HAD A HELMSMAN WHEN YOU WERE DONE. AND YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE A *PRETTY* STRONG PSIONIC TO EVEN DO THAT MUCH. SO OBVIOUSLY, IT WASN'T ATTEMPTED. ... OFTEN.
⚡︎ ⌁ i ⌁ dont ⌁ often ⌁ talk ⌁ about ⌁ anything ⌁ that ⌁ isn't ⌁ fiduspaWn...but ⌁ this ⌁ is ⌁ the ⌁ most ⌁ cohmerent ⌁ explanation ⌁ of ⌁ the ⌁ role ⌁ of ⌁ a ⌁ helm ⌁ i've ⌁ seen ⌁ in ⌁ a ⌁ long ⌁ time. ⌁ the ⌁ Way ⌁ i'd ⌁ best ⌁ describe ⌁ it ⌁ is...imagine ⌁ you ⌁ have ⌁ a ⌁ ball ⌁ on ⌁ a ⌁ piece ⌁ of ⌁ black ⌁ fabric. ⌁ you ⌁ Want ⌁ the ⌁ ball ⌁ off ⌁ of ⌁ the ⌁ fabric, ⌁ but ⌁ you ⌁ can't ⌁ touch ⌁ it. ⌁ so, ⌁ instead, ⌁ you ⌁ take ⌁ the ⌁ corners ⌁ of ⌁ one ⌁ end ⌁ of ⌁ the ⌁ fabric, ⌁ and ⌁ pull ⌁ it ⌁ to ⌁ the ⌁ ball, ⌁ then ⌁ pinch ⌁ a ⌁ piece ⌁ of ⌁ the ⌁ fabric ⌁ and ⌁ pull ⌁ upWards ⌁ to ⌁ the ⌁ ball ⌁ rolls ⌁ off ⌁ of ⌁ it. ⌁ the ⌁ ball ⌁ is ⌁ a ⌁ ship. ⌁ your ⌁ fingers ⌁ are ⌁ a ⌁ helmsman. ⌁ When ⌁ a ⌁ helm ⌁ is ⌁ plugged ⌁ into ⌁ the ⌁ SLITHR ⌁ (Shifting ⌁ Light ⌁ Inhibiting ⌁ Time ⌁ Holding ⌁ Redshift) ⌁ tentacles, ⌁ they're ⌁ hooking ⌁ their ⌁ thinkpan ⌁ directly ⌁ into ⌁ a ⌁ sensor ⌁ built ⌁ into ⌁ the ⌁ ship...Watt ⌁ this ⌁ sensor ⌁ does ⌁ is ⌁ essentially ⌁ amplify ⌁ the ⌁ helm's ⌁ reach. ⌁ Think ⌁ of ⌁ it ⌁ like...suddenly ⌁ you ⌁ have ⌁ these ⌁ big, ⌁ astral ⌁ arms. ⌁ You ⌁ can ⌁ grab ⌁ everything. ⌁ Suddenly, ⌁ you're ⌁ big ⌁ enough ⌁ to ⌁ pinch ⌁ the ⌁ fabric, ⌁ and ⌁ roll ⌁ the ⌁ ball. ⌁ All ⌁ you ⌁ have ⌁ to ⌁ do ⌁ is ⌁ ignore ⌁ your ⌁ oWn ⌁ doom ⌁ and ⌁ do ⌁ it. ⌁ No ⌁ matter ⌁ the ⌁ cost. ⌁ ⚡︎
NOW THAT. IS WHAT *I* CALL. A REAL. FUCKING. BALL KNOWER.
oh wow, i didnt know that last part... wait, no, i totally did, thats the waylon maneuver right????? i remember learning that when i was studying old alternian fleet combat!! that wouldve been the.... tetonian occupation? commander waylon had her helmsman punch a hole to flank the tetonian fleet, turning the tide without any more significant casualties!!! gosh, of COURSE that was an einstein-rosen bridge, how did i never make that connection?? :p anyway this is a really good explanation!!!! science communication is notoriously hard but you got it across just fine :)
(( playing tuoys with world building:)
UNDULATING ASSGLANDS OF THE FUCKING HIVEMOTHER, THAT TAKES ME BACK. PLAYING ALTERNIAN NAVAL HISTORY TRIVIA WITH A *HUMAN?* THIS REALLY IS THE OUTER RIM OF PARADOX SPACE WE'RE TAP-DANCING ON, HERE. THE WAYLON MANEUVER IS ONE OF THOSE HOTLY CONTESTED PIECES OF FLEET HISTORY THAT GETS PASSED AROUND LIKE A BAKED HOT TUBER. MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE THEORETICAL UNCERTAINTY THAT JADE NUMBER ONE (OR JUST JADE, I GUESS) ALREADY OUTLINED. HOLDING THAT BRIDGE'S GAPING ORIFICE OPEN IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE. IT'S NOT EVEN EASILY SAID. BLUH. THERE'S SPECULATION THAT THE REASON THAT THE MANEUVER WORKED ISN'T BECAUSE WAYLON OUTFLANKED THE ENEMY FLEET BY GOING *THROUGH* THE BRIDGE, BUT BY HAVING HER HELMSMAN PUNCH THAT THROAT OPEN AS DEEP AS IT COULD GO RIGHT *NEAR* THE SHIP, CLOSE TO THE PURSUING ARMADA. IT WAS LIKE OPENING A FUCKING SINKHOLE RIGHT NEXT TO A BUNCH OF PARKED SCUTTLEBUGGIES. THEY ALL WENT TUMBLING IN ONLY TO SCATTER BACK OUT, WHILE WAYLON'S SHIP SWITCHED TO PROPULSION-BASED MOVEMENT IN ORDER TO USE THE SUDDEN SUPERMASSIVE SPACETIME DISTORTION TO PULL OFF A SLINGSHOT MANEUVER. KIND OF LIKE USING A BLACK HOLE'S DENSITY TO SWING THE SHIP AROUND BACK TOWARDS THE CLOSEST IMPERIAL FORTIFIED ZONE, WHICH MEANT THAT THE SHIP WASN'T CRAWLING BLEARILY THROUGH SPACE WITH A DEAD HELM FOR A HUNDRED FUCKING SWEEPS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN SAY FOR SURE WHAT HAPPENED ARE THE ONES WHO WERE THERE. AND GIVEN THAT WAYLON HERSELF WAS THE PRIMARY SOURCE, WHO KNOWS IF SHE WAS PULLING THE BRIDGE STORY OUT OF HER WASTE CHUTE, OR IF SHE REALLY WAS ONE OF THE ONLY ONES TO MAKE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH ON PSIONIC POWER ALONE. COULDN'T TELL YOU. I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW *THAT* FUCKING MUCH. I JUST GREW UP ON THE HOMEWORLD OF AN INTERGALACTIC SUPERPOWER. CULL ME FOR NOT HAVING AN EARTH-EQUIVALENT DOCTORATE, OR WHATEVER THE FUCK.
s)(e always insisted they made it through the hole but... s)(e wasnt really all there ive realized so i kind of have to question every story she ever told me now ._.
REMIND ME TO PICK YOUR SPONGE ABOUT DEEP SPACE FLEET MANEUVERS, SOMETIME. IF A FUCKLUDICROUSLY POWERFUL HELM CAN PULL OFF THIS KIND OF INSANE SPACETIME NUTFUCKERY, IMAGINE WHAT A JADE HARLEY VARIANT CAN PULL OFF. NOT GONNA LIE. IT WOULD BE COOL TO FIND OUT.
It has been a while since I last checked my feed here. ..I do enjoy this current trend. I finished another 3 books today. #NormalPosting
...Note to self: get another individual to confiscate my devices if I am to spend an evening to myself with a drink. #substances
o°~teeheehee~°o wh@ever would make you decide such a thing? is it not worthwhile spreading news of your glorious intoxic@ion? #substance o°~teeheehee~°o
My apologies, I missed this notification. I do not mind discussing how my evening is going, but I do admittedly find myself a little... embarrassed over certain statements made.
o°~teeheehee~°o it is best to understand when to take responsibility for your actions and when is best to simply have a good time but do say more!~°o i find myself deeply curious about how this glorious night tre@s you :•> o°~teeheehee~°o
i tjink i need to be railed by a man twice my size for once held sweetly in his arms afterward gods i shiuld put the bottle down #nsfw #substance
thatd probably help yea but youre talking about someone bigger than you while youre more human with it right
hear me out on this find a space player who can either make themselves huge or huge someone else for you as a favor
im so fucking smart i know
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oh wonderful... wiuld i have to make my way to you? i hrink i woud tbank gods i havr artifavts for dimensjonal travel brcause i absolutely cant be casting spells lije this
gods tge nihht has sure takenmme im going to regrwt tgis in the norning but is fffffiiiiiine. not my problem just yet!!! s a good whsiskey :) #substances
Goodness i forget the bite this drink has after a while haha! if im not careful, I'm going to end up finishing the bottle without realising it! #substances
With too much choice and not much care for specifics, I have found myself resorting to imbibing with one of my favourites. I do enjoy this one. It is a pleasant bourbon whiskey. A shame it will be a long while before I can get my claws on another bottle. https://file.garden/aCIggVU4PCQNDv2v/Drink%20of%20Choice.png #substances
Considering settling down this evening with a nice glass of something on the stronger side. However, I am unsure what specifically. Any suggestions from the masses? #substances
Hmm... Unfortunately, that is not quite within my specifications. Perhaps another time, assuming you are making a suggestion.
#pondering my orb
#theorbshowsall
#orbislove
#forfitallmortalpossessionstotheorb
I was wondering when it would be that one of those... two notorious individuals would stumble upon my humble little account. Hm. Interesting it has been this long.
Hello @dailyQuests, I have completed my task for the day. All eight pages have been located and are now within my possession. Attached is proof, because I deemed it necessary. [The image features purely the 8 pages he was tasked with finding. They are spread out on top of a wooden desk that clearly features many other loose pages and books that have been shoved out of the way to make space. There is static around the edges of the photograph, but it is primarily unobstructed and very clear.]
Daily Quest Update #3: I have since found seven out of the eight total pages. The last one has been particularly elusive. Several wide aerial scans of different areas have yet to yield results. I am starting to believe I may have scanned over it without realising. [📄7/8]
Daily Quest Update #2: Since finding the first, I have found a further three. This brings my total to four pages found. I am halfway through my quest now, which is quite exciting. [📄4/8]
9h n9 9h g9g n9 wait y9u're making a really 6ad ch9ice here. I had t9 d9 this 9nce and what happened at the end scared me t9 near d9u6le-death
Ah! But on the contrary, my experience during #SlenderHour gave me a good example of what to expect from future taskd of the sort. This task was assigned to me not by Slenderman himself but instead an external quest giver. I merely wanted something else to do within this idle period I have found myself in.
Daily Quest Update: I have so far found a singular page. They seem somehow more scarce than they were during #SlenderHour. However I do have all day to complete the task as far as I know. [📄 1/8]
it was quite shocking to see #slenderhour be used again good luck finding my pages