Welcome!
Hello! I'm Jagaimo, an aspiring Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist (or, well... I try my best).
I've always been fascinated by the Universe and the countless questions it refuses to answer. This little corner of the Internet is where I collect my thoughts, write about astronomy, physics, mathematics, planetary science, and occasionally wander into topics like writing, indie games, and classical music.
This isn't meant to be a perfectly polished scientific publication. It's simply a place where curiosity comes first.
You'll find blog posts about strange astronomical discoveries, theoretical ideas, interesting physics concepts, beautiful deep-sky objects, random thoughts, and whatever else captures my attention at 2 AM.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
— Albert Einstein
So make yourself comfortable, have a look around, and maybe you'll leave with a question you didn't have before.
Things you'll find here
- 🌌 Astronomy
- 🪐 Planetary Science
- ⭐ Deep Sky Objects
- 📐 Mathematics
- ⚛ Physics
- 🛰 Space Exploration
- 🎮 Indie Games
- 🎼 Classical Music
- ✍ Random Thoughts
Latest from the Blog
Thirst for Knowledge
My first blog.
Confucius once said,
"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask is a fool for life."
Well...
I'm definitely not planning on being a fool for life.
Every day I find myself asking different questions about the Universe.
What does it still hide from us?
What haven't we discovered yet that could completely change our understanding of reality?
What's happening inside Messier 63?
And why on Earth does it look like a sunflower?
Isn't it beautiful?
Just majestic.
Astronomers estimate that roughly 200 sextillion stars exist in the observable Universe. Since many stars possess planetary systems, the total number of planets is believed to be of the same order of magnitude.
That's
200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
possible worlds.
For comparison, humanity has confirmed the existence of only about 6,000 exoplanets.
That's around
0.00000000000000000003%
of all the planets that might exist.
Ridiculous.
There could be entire civilizations we will never know existed.
Maybe somewhere there's a species taking a relaxing bath in uranium hexafluoride while we're stuck using plain old water.
One day I was talking with a colleague and said,
"I wish they would make one enormous catalogue of every star, planet, galaxy, supernova, gamma-ray burst... every astronomical object we know of. Pictures, spectra, orbital parameters, atmosphere models, everything. Put it all online."
Then I stopped myself.
"They?"
Who's supposed to be "they"?
It's not as if humanity actually knows that much.
The furthest exoplanets we've directly imaged are only a few hundred light-years away, and even then they're little more than bright pixels next to their stars.
One famous example is CT Chamaeleontis b.
It was discovered back in 2007 largely because it orbits incredibly far from its young host star, making it unusually easy to separate from the surrounding protoplanetary disk.
Even today, directly photographing planets remains exceptionally difficult.
And yet...
We've already managed to do it.
That thought alone fills me with optimism.
If this is what humanity can accomplish today, what will we be capable of fifty years from now?
Maybe one day we'll have the giant catalogue I dreamed about.
Maybe one day someone reading this blog will help build it.
That's ultimately why I chose Astrophysics.
I want to understand the Universe. Not just what we've already discovered, but everything waiting beyond the next observation. The deep theory, the theoretical stars made out of theoretical particles that only exist in theoretical frameworks!
(...and certainly not because the experimental equipment where I live belongs in a museum and half the experimental physicists I've met drive me completely insane.)
No...
Definitely not because of that.