Is "Astrophysics" another name for poetry?
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1/Moons
—So, you're going to HJ80C?
— Yes. Next month. The sea shores are so beautiful and we need holidays.
— Be careful of the moons' alignment. The tides can be terrible !
— I know. We'll avoid the syzygy.
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—So, you're going to HJ80C?
— Yes. Next month. The sea shores are so beautiful and we need holidays.
— Be careful of the moons' alignment. The tides can be terrible !
— I know. We'll avoid the syzygy.
#writever
2/Occultation
It isn't our first coming to Earth. The occultation by the moon protecting us, the precedent arrivals were discrete.
This time, you know how the young ones are, we arrived in their big town with the shiny vehicle.
All we've visited by now is the prison.
#writever
It isn't our first coming to Earth. The occultation by the moon protecting us, the precedent arrivals were discrete.
This time, you know how the young ones are, we arrived in their big town with the shiny vehicle.
All we've visited by now is the prison.
#writever
3/ Focal
The first intelligent companions had focal adjustment problems.
Their visual perception of the world was so bad, they couldn't make a good decision about what they saw. However, this allowed them to get better with other senses.
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The first intelligent companions had focal adjustment problems.
Their visual perception of the world was so bad, they couldn't make a good decision about what they saw. However, this allowed them to get better with other senses.
#writever
4/Libration
—Watch this. The movement is more important, isn't it?
They checked the planet libration in their own telescopes then nodded.
Their colleague, at 98 years old, was starting to show signs of eye strain.
—Isn't it? He insisted.
—It is! they answered, sadly.
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—Watch this. The movement is more important, isn't it?
They checked the planet libration in their own telescopes then nodded.
Their colleague, at 98 years old, was starting to show signs of eye strain.
—Isn't it? He insisted.
—It is! they answered, sadly.
#writever
5/Retrograde
In many places, women are losing the rights they fought for in the seventies.
This movement, due to the reaction of the patriarchal society that turns everything to the advantage of men, is called poetically "the slow retrograde rotation of Venus".
#writever
In many places, women are losing the rights they fought for in the seventies.
This movement, due to the reaction of the patriarchal society that turns everything to the advantage of men, is called poetically "the slow retrograde rotation of Venus".
#writever
6/Starspot
You know the lifetime of a starspot depends on its size. That's why I'm asking you to be cool.
You'll go on with your own existence as a part of the star, but you'll also be a part of us.
The bigger we are, the nearest immortality is.
So, what do you say?
#writever
You know the lifetime of a starspot depends on its size. That's why I'm asking you to be cool.
You'll go on with your own existence as a part of the star, but you'll also be a part of us.
The bigger we are, the nearest immortality is.
So, what do you say?
#writever
7/Terminator
I have many names, but you all know me.
I'm just a line, a short moving moment.
I stand on the frontier between what you like and what you hate, between joy and happiness, between night and day.
I am the terminator, the end and the beginning.
#writever
I have many names, but you all know me.
I'm just a line, a short moving moment.
I stand on the frontier between what you like and what you hate, between joy and happiness, between night and day.
I am the terminator, the end and the beginning.
#writever
8/Blazar
— What happened to the humans?
—They eventually destroyed their planet.
— Pollution?
— War.
— Then they managed to reach the space and arrived in our system. But they wanted to take control of a big blazar.
— What for?
— War!
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— What happened to the humans?
—They eventually destroyed their planet.
— Pollution?
— War.
— Then they managed to reach the space and arrived in our system. But they wanted to take control of a big blazar.
— What for?
— War!
#writever
9/Event horizon
You know how it is when people suffer. In the beginning, they are really empathetic, then they close, slowly, and they reach the Event horizon, a state of insensitivity beyond which nothing they observe can reach them.
No one can then help them out.
#writever
You know how it is when people suffer. In the beginning, they are really empathetic, then they close, slowly, and they reach the Event horizon, a state of insensitivity beyond which nothing they observe can reach them.
No one can then help them out.
#writever
10/Regolith
With such tyres, you'll be able to roll on the sand, they said.
Then I started to dream of long beaches.
But they sent me to Mars, where I'm desperately trying to find the sea.
Everyday, it's regolith, always. Regolith, again and again.
#writever
With such tyres, you'll be able to roll on the sand, they said.
Then I started to dream of long beaches.
But they sent me to Mars, where I'm desperately trying to find the sea.
Everyday, it's regolith, always. Regolith, again and again.
#writever
11/Interferometer
Sometimes, you'd like to know more about the persons who block your way to happiness. The one who got your dream job or the last place in the parking lot... Use our Interferometer to find them and, perhaps, learn from them.
#writever
Sometimes, you'd like to know more about the persons who block your way to happiness. The one who got your dream job or the last place in the parking lot... Use our Interferometer to find them and, perhaps, learn from them.
#writever
12/ Spectral
The planet was a twin of our Earth, except for the pollution.
We even could breathe freely, then we landed.
Everything was OK, but 3 days later, we all started to feel spectral presences among us.
We, therefore, decided to leave.
#writever
The planet was a twin of our Earth, except for the pollution.
We even could breathe freely, then we landed.
Everything was OK, but 3 days later, we all started to feel spectral presences among us.
We, therefore, decided to leave.
#writever
13/Ecliptic
They said Pluto was out of the ecliptic plan, then they decided it was not a legit planet.
You're here, you exist, you count !
What kind of people can think otherwise?
#writever
They said Pluto was out of the ecliptic plan, then they decided it was not a legit planet.
You're here, you exist, you count !
What kind of people can think otherwise?
#writever
14/Proper movement
—Each time I see my mother, I find her different. I know my eyes change and the way I see her too, but I wonder if she has a kind of, you know, proper movement...
—Perhaps, she's just getting older.
—Of course not. We got her the ForeverYoung serum.
#writever
—Each time I see my mother, I find her different. I know my eyes change and the way I see her too, but I wonder if she has a kind of, you know, proper movement...
—Perhaps, she's just getting older.
—Of course not. We got her the ForeverYoung serum.
#writever
15/Magnetosphere
Once you've approached the planet enough, getting away from it was impossible, because of the powerful magnetosphere.
They then tried to use non metallic starships. In vain. Their bodies were also stuck on the ground.
#writever
Once you've approached the planet enough, getting away from it was impossible, because of the powerful magnetosphere.
They then tried to use non metallic starships. In vain. Their bodies were also stuck on the ground.
#writever
16/Albedo
How could the person's skin albedo determine their social value?
Our best hypothesis is that it has to do with the capacity of stealing or rending the sunlight.
What do you think?
#writever
How could the person's skin albedo determine their social value?
Our best hypothesis is that it has to do with the capacity of stealing or rending the sunlight.
What do you think?
#writever
17/Obliquity
They say I suffer from an inner ear hypersensitivity. I'm able to feel a minor difference in the obliquity of my planet's axis. That's why I never travel in space. I'd get dizzy all the time!
#writever
They say I suffer from an inner ear hypersensitivity. I'm able to feel a minor difference in the obliquity of my planet's axis. That's why I never travel in space. I'd get dizzy all the time!
#writever
18/Chondritic
— Still trying to contact the earthlings?
— It's hard. They have a weird way to apprehend the world.
— What about the chondritic messages?
— They find the meteorites, but they cut and watch them. None considers listening to them.
#writever
— Still trying to contact the earthlings?
— It's hard. They have a weird way to apprehend the world.
— What about the chondritic messages?
— They find the meteorites, but they cut and watch them. None considers listening to them.
#writever
19/ Yarkovsky effect
— I've met a guy. An attractive and radiant guy. When he talked, he had a terrific effect on me and since then, I feel disturbed in my life trajectory.
— Oh! Great! What's his name?
— Yarkovsky
#writever
— I've met a guy. An attractive and radiant guy. When he talked, he had a terrific effect on me and since then, I feel disturbed in my life trajectory.
— Oh! Great! What's his name?
— Yarkovsky
#writever
20/Gamma-ray burst
Gamma-ray bursts were considered as a nice phenomenon, because of the brief appearance of colours in the sky. Now that we understand them better, we know they have more to do with wrath and fury.
#writever
Gamma-ray bursts were considered as a nice phenomenon, because of the brief appearance of colours in the sky. Now that we understand them better, we know they have more to do with wrath and fury.
#writever
21/Ephemeris
Each time my lover goes away for her job, I try to determine which planet she goes on, then I check, everyday in the ephemeris where in the sky she is.
This way, I know what direction to turn to, when I think about her.
#Writever
Each time my lover goes away for her job, I try to determine which planet she goes on, then I check, everyday in the ephemeris where in the sky she is.
This way, I know what direction to turn to, when I think about her.
#Writever
22/Apostron
Of course, it's possible to talk together, but the quality of our communication depends upon the distance of the satellite.
At the periastron, the sound and images are perfect, but at the aspotron, the delay is so awful, that chatting is impossible.
#writever
Of course, it's possible to talk together, but the quality of our communication depends upon the distance of the satellite.
At the periastron, the sound and images are perfect, but at the aspotron, the delay is so awful, that chatting is impossible.
#writever
23/Protostar
— I'm a real star, Viggo said, I want my own system!
— Not yet, its mom answered, smiling. You're a great protostar and the universe is waiting for you to grow older.
But Vigo didn't want to wait. It closed itself into anger and became a wicked black hole.
#Writever
— I'm a real star, Viggo said, I want my own system!
— Not yet, its mom answered, smiling. You're a great protostar and the universe is waiting for you to grow older.
But Vigo didn't want to wait. It closed itself into anger and became a wicked black hole.
#Writever
24/Molecular Cloud
When you give birth while working in space, everything is provided.
You have more spare time to spend with your baby.
You can also take your child to the Molecular Cloud, sometimes called Stellar Nursery.
#writever
When you give birth while working in space, everything is provided.
You have more spare time to spend with your baby.
You can also take your child to the Molecular Cloud, sometimes called Stellar Nursery.
#writever
25/ cosmic rays
The members of this sect think that what makes them special is the amount of rays from outer space penetrating their body.
They gather in the dark and call the cosmic rays, mumbling « Muon» and dancing in unison.
#writever
The members of this sect think that what makes them special is the amount of rays from outer space penetrating their body.
They gather in the dark and call the cosmic rays, mumbling « Muon» and dancing in unison.
#writever
26/Stellar Wind
The human beings often name a new phenomenon after familiar ones. This habit which decrease their fear of the unknown, is terrible for accessing knowledge. How can you understand stellar wind when you think it's wind?
#writever
The human beings often name a new phenomenon after familiar ones. This habit which decrease their fear of the unknown, is terrible for accessing knowledge. How can you understand stellar wind when you think it's wind?
#writever
27/Ice Giant
The Ice Giant was a little-known superhero.
When the winter sports season began, he used to wake up from his glacier to rescue the skiers in distress.
With the global warming, none has heard of him lately.
Perhaps he's gone.
#writever
The Ice Giant was a little-known superhero.
When the winter sports season began, he used to wake up from his glacier to rescue the skiers in distress.
With the global warming, none has heard of him lately.
Perhaps he's gone.
#writever
28/ equatorial mount
Making a carousel with an equatorial mount seemed to be a great idea. In theory.
The children could watch the stars while turning around a corrected axis.
What really happened was nausea and vomiting.
#writever
Making a carousel with an equatorial mount seemed to be a great idea. In theory.
The children could watch the stars while turning around a corrected axis.
What really happened was nausea and vomiting.
#writever
29/Astrophysics
He dreamt all his childhood of being an astrophysicist. He thought he'd have to fly to the stars and planets to make all necessary measurements.
You can imagine his disappointment when he figured out the truth!
#writever
He dreamt all his childhood of being an astrophysicist. He thought he'd have to fly to the stars and planets to make all necessary measurements.
You can imagine his disappointment when he figured out the truth!
#writever
30/Comet nucleus
Our team discovered that some comets were alive. Their heart, called comet nucleus, sometimes is able to communicate actively and react to our questions.
We're looking for a way to prevent them from dying after a few days.
#writever
Our team discovered that some comets were alive. Their heart, called comet nucleus, sometimes is able to communicate actively and react to our questions.
We're looking for a way to prevent them from dying after a few days.
#writever
31/Magnitude
My love has gone. I know her soul is in the sky.
Each time I watch the stars, I think about her.
Sometimes it seems that she answers me. The stars' magnitude is higher for a few seconds.
#writever
My love has gone. I know her soul is in the sky.
Each time I watch the stars, I think about her.
Sometimes it seems that she answers me. The stars' magnitude is higher for a few seconds.
#writever
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