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    Have some doodles I made because I‘m incapable of doing anything else rn😭🧍‍♀️

    I have a bunch of comic drafts but so little energy and time😔

  • The night sky on Mars

  • I was wondering whether the constellations would look any different on Mars, so I looked it up, and apparently not; galactically speaking Mars is so close to us that the difference is imperceptible. However, I did find this neat additional bit:

    The other posters are correct. There’d be no change on Mars. The distance between Earth and Mars is tiny compared to the distance between stars. A typical space probe can cover the distance from Earth to Mars in six months. The same probe would take about 70,000 years to get to the nearest star beyond the sun.  And speaking of that nearest star system beyond the sun: Alpha Centauri - the constellations even seen from that vantage point would look very similar to what we see here. Because from a cosmic perspective, the sun and Alpha Centauri, only 4 light years apart, are quite close. It’s 30,000 light years to the center of the galaxy, by comparison.  From Alpha Centauri, however, there’d be one change in the constellations. In the familiar “W” of Cassiopeia, there would be an additional bright star. The new star? The one we call, “Sun.”ALT
  • Same sky, but no light pollution.

  • It is... distressing how many people in the comments are like "this is fake you all believe science fiction" like no, I'm sorry you're to young to have never seen the sky at night without light pollution -- *that* sounds like a science fiction short story, but unfortunately it's real.

    If I had a billion dollars to spare, I would make sure that as many children as possible could travel to a legit Dark Sky location and see the Milky Way for real. It might help them understand that just because you can't see something that science tells you is true doesn't mean science is wrong or a lie.

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