Inverse 5040
@inverse5040.bsky.social
I think about exoplanets too much. Amateur artist, he/him, ASD and possible ADHD.
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New research led by @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social using nearly three decades of airborne radar observations identifies four features that help storms align before they intensify.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SWH4Xm
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SWH4Xm
Hurricane Hunter data reveal early signs of strengthening tropical cyclones
Nearly three decades of airborne radar observations identify four features that help storms align before they intensify.
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September 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
New research led by @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social using nearly three decades of airborne radar observations identifies four features that help storms align before they intensify.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SWH4Xm
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3SWH4Xm
[Gift Art] Hanabi's space exploration!
Featuring @nemezsf2004.bsky.social's android character, Hanabi Uzaki (I like his characters and wanted to draw her).
I'm way less experienced at drawing humanoid bodies than I am at drawing planets and it shows :P
Featuring @nemezsf2004.bsky.social's android character, Hanabi Uzaki (I like his characters and wanted to draw her).
I'm way less experienced at drawing humanoid bodies than I am at drawing planets and it shows :P
September 14, 2026 at 2:59 AM
[Gift Art] Hanabi's space exploration!
Featuring @nemezsf2004.bsky.social's android character, Hanabi Uzaki (I like his characters and wanted to draw her).
I'm way less experienced at drawing humanoid bodies than I am at drawing planets and it shows :P
Featuring @nemezsf2004.bsky.social's android character, Hanabi Uzaki (I like his characters and wanted to draw her).
I'm way less experienced at drawing humanoid bodies than I am at drawing planets and it shows :P
Classes making me so slow at drawing it's unreal
September 9, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Classes making me so slow at drawing it's unreal
KSP mod that lets you use FOOF gas as an oxidizer
September 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
KSP mod that lets you use FOOF gas as an oxidizer
good LORD what is happening in there
(imagery courtesy of Himawari-8)
(imagery courtesy of Himawari-8)
September 4, 2026 at 8:25 PM
good LORD what is happening in there
(imagery courtesy of Himawari-8)
(imagery courtesy of Himawari-8)
my conspiracy theory is that the reason that tau ceti has so many fake planets is because it's a fake star
August 31, 2026 at 12:29 PM
my conspiracy theory is that the reason that tau ceti has so many fake planets is because it's a fake star
August 31, 2026 at 2:52 AM
A supercritical steamball, tinted blue by the presence of water vapor high above its exotic clouds and rayliegh scattering. It has no idea what's coming to it.
#art #astronomy #space #planet
#art #astronomy #space #planet
August 31, 2026 at 2:46 AM
A supercritical steamball, tinted blue by the presence of water vapor high above its exotic clouds and rayliegh scattering. It has no idea what's coming to it.
#art #astronomy #space #planet
#art #astronomy #space #planet
Tried to see the lunar eclipse. I got clouded.
August 28, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Tried to see the lunar eclipse. I got clouded.
tiny astronomers live on the grains of dust dancing around in the sun coming through your window, they meticulously catalog all the nearby dust grains and map their proper motion with respect to the dust particle they live on
August 23, 2026 at 8:32 PM
tiny astronomers live on the grains of dust dancing around in the sun coming through your window, they meticulously catalog all the nearby dust grains and map their proper motion with respect to the dust particle they live on
August 22, 2026 at 10:41 PM
forgot to shade the terrain
August 20, 2026 at 2:25 PM
forgot to shade the terrain
Finally I can gush about reusable rockets without looking like I'm glazing Eel On the Muck ❤️
ZhuQue-3 Y2 launched successfully on August 19, 2026, achieving China’s first-ever land landing of an orbital-class reusable rocket. This full-flight video, filmed at normal speed with an Osmo Action 6, captures the ascent and eventual landing. Recovering that SD card must’ve been a relief!
August 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Finally I can gush about reusable rockets without looking like I'm glazing Eel On the Muck ❤️
they don't even have the guts to say "potentially habitable exoplanets" anymore they just say "potentially rocky planets in the circumstellar habitable zone" now
August 20, 2026 at 11:27 AM
they don't even have the guts to say "potentially habitable exoplanets" anymore they just say "potentially rocky planets in the circumstellar habitable zone" now
taking a break from the KSP redesigns to draw something else
August 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM
taking a break from the KSP redesigns to draw something else
a sticker peeling off a wall due to bad adhesive but instead it's you peeling off the 3D plane into the fourth dimension
you don't notice anything wrong but your friends see the back of your head as if it were chopped off cleanly exposing a cross section of your brain
you don't notice anything wrong but your friends see the back of your head as if it were chopped off cleanly exposing a cross section of your brain
August 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM
a sticker peeling off a wall due to bad adhesive but instead it's you peeling off the 3D plane into the fourth dimension
you don't notice anything wrong but your friends see the back of your head as if it were chopped off cleanly exposing a cross section of your brain
you don't notice anything wrong but your friends see the back of your head as if it were chopped off cleanly exposing a cross section of your brain
Eve, no atmosphere, fog, or clouds version. Deep red polar seas of liquid sulfur are surrounded by areas where the wind carries sulfur vapors where they deposit on the nearby land.
For full(er) explanation on my Eve redesign, see atmosphere version and subsequent posts. Needless to say, be warned.
For full(er) explanation on my Eve redesign, see atmosphere version and subsequent posts. Needless to say, be warned.
August 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Eve, no atmosphere, fog, or clouds version. Deep red polar seas of liquid sulfur are surrounded by areas where the wind carries sulfur vapors where they deposit on the nearby land.
For full(er) explanation on my Eve redesign, see atmosphere version and subsequent posts. Needless to say, be warned.
For full(er) explanation on my Eve redesign, see atmosphere version and subsequent posts. Needless to say, be warned.
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Eve. This one requires a lot of explanation, so a whole bunch of posts incoming, watch out. For the other KSP planets I redesigned thus far as part of this project (The Mun, Duna, Moho) I could just make them look like their real counterparts. But I wanted to avoid removing characteristic features.
August 18, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Eve. This one requires a lot of explanation, so a whole bunch of posts incoming, watch out. For the other KSP planets I redesigned thus far as part of this project (The Mun, Duna, Moho) I could just make them look like their real counterparts. But I wanted to avoid removing characteristic features.
spin-1/2 planet that if you spend an odd number of days on its surface before leaving you come back mirrored on a chemical level and die of every disease you cannot fight with mirrored antibodies
August 19, 2026 at 8:18 PM
spin-1/2 planet that if you spend an odd number of days on its surface before leaving you come back mirrored on a chemical level and die of every disease you cannot fight with mirrored antibodies
Precisely this. I like space exploration in stories only but I'm actually strongly against manned space exploration and colonization in practice.
We don't need to leave Earth for a good future, and having kids on a space habitat will mean forcing them to live dependent on whoever's maintaining it.
We don't need to leave Earth for a good future, and having kids on a space habitat will mean forcing them to live dependent on whoever's maintaining it.
One of my big hot takes is that the idea of humanity inevitably colonizing other planets was born of the projected overpopulation crisis 20th century writers worried about, and there's no actual reason to colonize beyond Earth in a world with declining populations
Actual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches
fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
August 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Precisely this. I like space exploration in stories only but I'm actually strongly against manned space exploration and colonization in practice.
We don't need to leave Earth for a good future, and having kids on a space habitat will mean forcing them to live dependent on whoever's maintaining it.
We don't need to leave Earth for a good future, and having kids on a space habitat will mean forcing them to live dependent on whoever's maintaining it.
it is past midnight, my sleep schedule is messed up, classes start soon and I have turned my bluesky page into a complete mess with that giant post chain I NEED to stop posting for now this can't be good for me, see you in the morning i'm going to bed
August 18, 2026 at 4:35 AM
it is past midnight, my sleep schedule is messed up, classes start soon and I have turned my bluesky page into a complete mess with that giant post chain I NEED to stop posting for now this can't be good for me, see you in the morning i'm going to bed
My toxic trait is assuming a "redox habitable zone" like that even exists at all and ignoring the fact that the S2 would probably just oxidize away sooner than the organic haze 😔
I'm actually just carrying blind dumb hope on this one
I'm actually just carrying blind dumb hope on this one
August 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM
My toxic trait is assuming a "redox habitable zone" like that even exists at all and ignoring the fact that the S2 would probably just oxidize away sooner than the organic haze 😔
I'm actually just carrying blind dumb hope on this one
I'm actually just carrying blind dumb hope on this one
I'll just handwave and say that Eve's likely CO2 dominated atmosphere would not be too oxidizing for disulfur. Note: one might not normally think of CO2 as oxidizing since it's used to put out fires, but it can't coexist with methane without biotic sources of both and also becomes acidic in water.
Again, already stretching it a lot and that's ignoring the fact that sulfur burns/oxidizes to form various oxides. The atmosphere can't be too oxidizing or all the less stable S2 would just oxidize. But it also can't be too reducing or else the purple will be overpowered by orange organic haze.
So what I've got here is the liquid sulfur oceans produce S2 and S8 vapor, the S2 rises above the clouds and tints the upper atmosphere a slight purple while the heavier, yellow S8 stays below them. This would make Eve look purple from space but have a sort of yellow fog close to the oceans I think.
August 18, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I'll just handwave and say that Eve's likely CO2 dominated atmosphere would not be too oxidizing for disulfur. Note: one might not normally think of CO2 as oxidizing since it's used to put out fires, but it can't coexist with methane without biotic sources of both and also becomes acidic in water.
Again, already stretching it a lot and that's ignoring the fact that sulfur burns/oxidizes to form various oxides. The atmosphere can't be too oxidizing or all the less stable S2 would just oxidize. But it also can't be too reducing or else the purple will be overpowered by orange organic haze.
So what I've got here is the liquid sulfur oceans produce S2 and S8 vapor, the S2 rises above the clouds and tints the upper atmosphere a slight purple while the heavier, yellow S8 stays below them. This would make Eve look purple from space but have a sort of yellow fog close to the oceans I think.
That doesn't mean it's a very good candidate though, even Venus is too cold for disulfur to become stable. I imagine very small amounts would form above Eve's oceans (if they were liquid like in KSP2) and they'd rise higher than vapors of S8 due to lower molar mass but that's stretching it already
August 18, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Again, already stretching it a lot and that's ignoring the fact that sulfur burns/oxidizes to form various oxides. The atmosphere can't be too oxidizing or all the less stable S2 would just oxidize. But it also can't be too reducing or else the purple will be overpowered by orange organic haze.
So what I've got here is the liquid sulfur oceans produce S2 and S8 vapor, the S2 rises above the clouds and tints the upper atmosphere a slight purple while the heavier, yellow S8 stays below them. This would make Eve look purple from space but have a sort of yellow fog close to the oceans I think.
That doesn't mean it's a very good candidate though, even Venus is too cold for disulfur to become stable. I imagine very small amounts would form above Eve's oceans (if they were liquid like in KSP2) and they'd rise higher than vapors of S8 due to lower molar mass but that's stretching it already
Disulfur (S₂) is an allotrope of sulfur that is a gas. It's unstable at standard conditions, but it becomes stable at high temperatures and low pressures. It is IMO the best candidate for a purple dye for Eve, since others like iodine are too reactive and would just get trapped up to form salts.
August 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM
So what I've got here is the liquid sulfur oceans produce S2 and S8 vapor, the S2 rises above the clouds and tints the upper atmosphere a slight purple while the heavier, yellow S8 stays below them. This would make Eve look purple from space but have a sort of yellow fog close to the oceans I think.