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I'm not selling it regardless of the valuation. Grandma was a fuckin legend.

Olaf Stapledon would be saddened by how commercialized astrogeny has become in our time.

“This was handed down by to me from my mom. She said she got it at the big bang.” “I’ve got some bad news, she didn’t get this at *the* big bang, she got it at *a* big bang.”

Amazing lol

On the other hand, you're probably made of some of it, so there's that.

The characters from #Calvino's "The Light-Years" would be fantastic guests on antiques roadshow

It came before anyone had any idea about stellar ages.

Pity it's not a Wolf-Rayet star. They're not rare, but they're flashy. A few of them can really brighten up a galaxy.

Also it's hollow and it's got whiskey in it

ok, then what about this galaxy in Orion’s belt ?

Still, it'll make a nice decoration to hang in the stellar nursery.

Imma need about tree fiddy

This is a high quality response.

Might be a bit on the nose.

@earational.bsky.social ⭐

Walter Baade did it. Revising it would cause more confusion. Once you learn the lingo it stays with you.

@drbecky.bsky.social

oh my god you can't just ask someone how big they are

A random loose high iron Population I star which nobody remembers where it came from.

Åntiques Roadshow

randy getting a lot of mileage out of the "what if some guy just owned a celestial being and had to upkeep it" bit

Title text: "The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3281#Transcript

heyyyy my parents love antiques roadshow :3