#lyra centauri

[ohnoitspheo]

[OC] The Sillies on the Surface! 🏖️ ☀️

Ibera is amused by Nij and Yaz shenanigans, Sherb is sleeping peacefully on a floatie. Lyra is using her own tail as a floatie!

What’s Lyra looking at? Stay turned for part 3…

Prismatic Beach AU Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

[glittercakes]

Have you imagined a Sparkle AU sequel where Liko (the Pokemon anime's new heroine, who is Serena's and Ash's daughter in the Sparkle AU) receiving from her father, once she leaves for Paldea, a Sparkle Brooch of her own that will help her save people and Pokemons in distress and to cultivate her inner strength?

PS Which names would Liko's various Sparkle personae have?

I remember when that was a theory…

Her father’s broach was one of Liko’s greatest treasures along with her pendant, but she thought the stories that he told were made up until she transformed for the first time. Needless to say, she was surprised, but she eventually came into her own.

Due to her connection with Terapagos, I went with both a star/space and jewel theme for her transformations.

Swordfighter: Lady Orion

Cowgirl: Turquoise

Patissiere: Galatea

Ninja: Umbra

Dashing Thief: Onyx Masque

Detective: Sherlock Centauri

Mighty: Red Diamond

Kung Fu: Jade

Figure Skater: Aurora

Mermaid: Pearl

Rockstar: Lyra

Fairy: Emerald

Pirate: Captain Vela

Skater: Comet

Cheerleader: Citrine

Sailor: Polaris

Doctor: Dr. Quartz

[voidplume]

vinh has been an oc longer than vega and i Do Not actually think hes been talked about a lot so like lemme give some context (its long im so sorry)

i have to start with rigel sadly cause like. i remember i did a HUGE fucking lore exposition on him a while ago that i forget where i put...... but basically tldr rigel is apart of a now dead and defunct clan that wanted to be the first like. not the FIRST settlers of Alpha Centauri but the first group to make it their mission. and he has a twin sister, lyra. they used to pretend to be the same person and took the name vega and it kind of. has poor memories attached to it for both of them.

but blah blah i am obsessed with my OCs having weird families and made rigel have a kid w/ laz. him and lyra figured "hey we';re not using it anymore lets give it to a real person this time" and named him Vega

hes a 2nd gen tenno so like. he doesnt have powers from teh Zariman but he DOES have powers cause his PARENTS have zariman powers. like hes a tenno but maybe not as apeshit crazy powerful as First Amalgam, Warden of Minos Lazarus and Void Father Raphael, Creator of the Void Angels Rigel.

vega is just a normal tenno with a couple of frames and a love for shotguns and one handed swords. :) his favorite frame is Mag and he likes spamming Polarize and Crush

Technically vinh is his aunt since laz is dating her brother, Seveht, in the polycule, but shes like...... hundreds of years younger than him (i said 20 earlier and forgot about corpus ages sorry) so they kinda regard each other as more like cousins or some shit idk theyre in teh same age group and are also Friends :)))))

also laz/rigel stole dominus out of duviri and now HE has weird tenno adjacent powers and his own Kullervo and he makes it everyone elses problem

and they are the 2nd gen gang :)

[madamlaydebug]

𝐓ɦ𝖾 𝐋𝗒𝗋α𐓣𝗌, 𝗍ɦ𝖾 𝐕𝖾𝗀α𐓣𝗌 & 𝐀ρ𝖾𝗑 𝐏ᥣα𐓣𝖾𝗍 🌀

The Vegans were the first ones to develop identifying themselves as a non-Lyran species. Vega is a star in the constellation of Lyra. In fact, a movement started to grow stronger (especially during the space exploration). This group wasn’t interested in following the expansive and pioneering flow of Lyra. Sim hey wished to focus more inward. They did a lot of spiritual practices and all that required them to gain strength and eventual go back to Source. So it was in hopes of being reunited again, that a group decided on a new set of rules and philosophies. As Lyra demonstrated to be of service to others (expansion) , Vega demonstrated to be of service to self (contraction). Needless to say, conflicts started in the vicinity of Lyra. Neither one of them was open to an integrative way but wanted to know who was right or wrong, good or bad. Polarization just continued to grow.

Meanwhile, a third civilization manifested: the Apex planet. It was a common place for both positive and negative traits. It began by integrating the qualities of Lyra and of Vega. Genetically, they were a bigger mix than Earth. Eventually, polarity took over and allowed pollution and weaponry to take over . It can be an example for Earth as a possible path might be taken. The Apex planet destroyed it self due to nuclear war. Some of its people went hiding underground to survive. As a result of the nuclear explosion, they catapulted the planet to an alternate dimension.

As for Lyrans and Vegans, but all were supportive of the wars and decided to removed themselves from the conflicts. A way of escaping was to escape from their planet and find news areas to colonize. Vegans did this with Altair and Centauri and Sirius and Lyrans with Pleiades.

[rosenongrata]

Behind the Stars – The Great Rift

CHARACTER DIRECTORY.

⋯ ✩ A/N: This will probably be updated periodically as I work on them and their universe over time. If you ever have any questions, feel free to drop them in my inbox! Note: This alphabetical list encompasses characters from both Starfield and Liberation. These stories, while in the same universe, take place in different periods.

GALAXIES.

🌌 — Via Lactea – "Ama-gi; the All-Mother" (Milky Way) 🌌 — Andromeda – "Medea" (Messier 31)

THE 88 CONSTELLATIONS.

💫 — Andromeda – "Andy" – The Chained Maiden 💫 — Antlia – "Lia" – Air Pump 💫 — Apus – Bird of Paradise 💫 — Aquarius – "Aqua" – Water-Bearer 💫 — Aquila – Eagle 💫 — Ara – Altar 💫 — Aries – "Ari" – Ram 💫 — Auriga – Charioteer 💫 — Boötes – "Tess" – Herdsman 💫 — Caelum – "Cae" – Chisel 💫 — Camelopardalis – "Cam" – Giraffe 💫 — Cancer – "Ann" – Crab 💫 — Canes Venatici – "Cane" – Hunting Dogs 💫 — Canis Major – "Cani" – Greater Dog 💫 — Canis Minor – "Can" – Lesser Dog 💫 — Capricornus – "Cap" – Sea-Goat 💫 — Carina – Ship Keel (also a part of Argo Navis) 💫 — Cassiopeia – "Cassie" – The Seated Queen 💫 — Centaurus – "Cen" – Centaur 💫 — Cepheus – "Ceph" – The King 💫 — Cetus – Sea Monster/Whale 💫 — Chamaeleon – "Leon" – Chameleon 💫 — Circinus – "Cici" – Technical Compasses 💫 — Columba – Dove 💫 — Coma Berenices – "Berenices" – Berenice's Hair 💫 — Corona Australis – "Aussie" – Southern Crown 💫 — Corona Borealis – "Borea" – Northern Crown 💫 — Corvus – Crow 💫 — Crater – Cup 💫 — Crux – Southern Cross 💫 — Cygnus – "Cyg" – Swan (also the Northern Cross) 💫 — Delphinus – "Dede" – Dolphin 💫 — Dorado – Dolphinfish 💫 — Draco – Dragon 💫 — Equuleus – "Equi" – Pony 💫 — Eridanus – River of Eridanus 💫 — Fornax – Chemical Furnace 💫 — Gemini – The Twins 💫 — Grus – Crane 💫 — Hercules – Heracles from Greek Myth 💫 — Horologium – Pendulum Clock 💫 — Hydra – Sea Serpent 💫 — Hydrus – Lesser Water Snake 💫 — Indus – "Indy" – The Indigenous* 💫 — Lacerta – Lizard 💫 — Leo – Lion 💫 — Leo Minor – "Lee" – Lesser Lion 💫 — Lepus – "Lep" – Hare 💫 — Libra – Balancing Scales 💫 — Lupus – Wolf 💫 — Lynx – Lynx 💫 — Lyra – Lyre/Harp 💫 — Mensa – Table Mountain 💫 — Microscopium – "Micky" – Microscope 💫 — Monoceros – "Ceros" – Unicorn 💫 — Musca – Fly 💫 — Norma – Spirit Level 💫 — Octans – Octant 💫 — Ophiuchus – "Ophi" – Serpent-Bearer 💫 — Orion – Orion from Greek Myth 💫 — Pavo – Peacock 💫 — Pegasus – Pegasus 💫 — Perseus – Perseus from Greek Myth 💫 — Phoenix – Phoenix 💫 — Pictor – Easel 💫 — Pisces – Fishes 💫 — Piscis Austrinus – "Pisci" – Southern Fish 💫 — Puppis – Ship Stern Deck (also a part of Argo Navis) 💫 — Pyxis – "Pyx" – Mariner's Compass 💫 — Reticulum – "Ret" – Eyepiece Graticule 💫 — Sagitta – Arrow 💫 — Sagittarius – "Sag/Saj" – Archer 💫 — Scorpius – "Scorpio" – Scorpion 💫 — Sculptor – "Scully" – Sculptor 💫 — Scutum – Shield 💫 — Serpens – Snake 💫 — Sextans – Sextant 💫 — Taurus – Bull 💫 — Telescopium – "Tele" – Telescope 💫 — Triangulum – "Tria" – Triangle 💫 — Triangulum Australe – "Trin" – Southern Triangle 💫 — Tucana – Toucan 💫 — Ursa Major – "Ursa" – Greater Bear 💫 — Ursa Minor – "Cub" – Lesser Bear 💫 — Vela – Ship Sails (also a part of Argo Navis) 💫 — Virgo – The Maiden 💫 — Volans – Flying Fish 💫 — Vulpecula – "Vixen" – Fox

STARS.

✨ — Beta Andromedae – "Mirach" ✨ — Delta Antliae – "Delt" ✨ — BPS CS22892-0052 Aquarii – "Sneden" (a part of The Elysians) ✨ — Theta Aurigae – "Mahasim" ✨ — Alpha Canis Majoris – "Sirius" ✨ — Alpha Cassiopeiae – "Schedar; Daria" ✨ — Gamma Cassiopeiae – "Navi; Tsih" ✨ — Alpha Centauri – "Rigil Kentaurus" ✨ — Beta Centauri – "Hadar" (goes by Malachy in other worlds) ✨ — BPM 37093 / V886 Centauri – "Lucy" ✨ — Centaurus X-3 / Krzeminski Centauri – "Krze" ✨ — Alpha Cephei – "Alderamin" ✨ — BPS CS31082-0001 Ceti – "Cayrel" (a part of The Elysians) ✨ — Omicron Ceti – "Mira(e)" ✨ — Alpha Corvi – "Alchiba" ✨ — Gamma Corvi – "Gienah; Dextra" ✨ — Epsilon Cygni – "Gienah" ✨ — ZTF J203349.8+322901.1 Cygni – "Janus" ✨ — Alpha Delphini – "Sualocin" ✨ — Zeta Delphini A – "Zeke" ✨ — Zeta Delphini B – "Delphi" ✨ — Alpha Draconis – "Thuban" ✨ — Beta Draconis – "Rastaban" ✨ — Gamma Draconis – "Eltanin" ✨ — Alpha Hydrae – "Alphard" ✨ — Gliese-Jahreiß "431931" – "GJ" ✨ — Alpha Leporis – "Arneb" ✨ — Beta Leporis – "Nihal" ✨ — HD 140283 Librae– "Methuselah" (also known as The Progenitor; a part of The Elysians) ✨ — Eta Ophiuchi – "Sabik" ✨ — Gamma Orionis – "Bellatrix" ✨ — Lambda Orionis – "Meissa" ✨ — V1005 Orionis – "Vee"

ASTERISMS.

💫 — Ashlesha – "Ash" – Naga 💫 — Baihu – White Tiger 💫 — False Cross – "Eris" 💫 — Diamond Cross – "Dia"

[spacefinch]

Here’s some of my favorites:

Mars

Nebula

Andromeda

Callisto

Phoebe

Neptune

Triangulum

Atlas

Orion

Halley

Nyx

Leo

Luna

Nova

Stella

Cosmo

Venus

Ceres

Vesta

Eris

Enceladus

Dione

Rhea

Meteor

Kuiper

Apollo

Artemis

Ida

Leda

Mimas

Tethys

Pluto

Janus

Umbriel

Sycorax

Triton

Galatea

Proteus

Barnard

Centauri

Lynx

Lyra

Deneb

Sagitta

Caelum

Pyxis

Charon

Pictor

reblog and put in the tags a good space themed cat name - bonus points for a specific one

[toruro]

WELL okay if u don’t know anything abt vega

it’s the brightest star in the constellation lyra, which is visible in the northern hemisphere at the very least during the summer? it’s also part of an asterism called the summer triangle that involves the brightest stars in the constellations aquila, cygnus, and lyra (the stars are altair, deneb, and vega respectively). it’s the second brightest star in the northern *celestial* hemisphere (following arcturus) and the fifth brightest overall (following canopus, the alpha centauri star system, and canopus) by absolute magnitude !!

it’s been the pole star in the past and will do so again in the future (not anytime soon tho), and it (might ?? i think confirmed ??) has at least a singular planet orbiting it c: it’s also so well known that there are names for it in a handful of different cultures, from the assyrians and babylonians to the chinese (where it’s part of an asterism known as the weaving girl, iirc?) and it’s mentioned in a w h auden poem (he wrote one of my favorite poems !).

- ts eliot anon (sry for the info dump. but i felt like u needed context behind my decision.)

OMG THIS IS SO COOL ... u seem 2 know a lot abt like constellations and stars and all that stuff it's super cool 2 me LIKE ... u think /i'm/ the 2nd brightest star in the northern hemisphere!?!? i'm flattered honestly. floored. in the best wsay possible ofc bUT THIS IS SO CUTE feel free 2 info dump in my dms whenever

(also i like how it has one planet. i'd love some1's world 2 revolve around me. idk i think'm self obsessed like that but then again why wouldn't i lvoe myself)

[reanemus]

Thoughts about article, "5 Alien Species Already Walking Amongst Us" by in5d

Link to the article: http://in5d.com/5-alien-species-already-walking-amongst-us/ 1. The Lyrans: That is a picture of Kate Blanchett as Lady Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings movies. "Mr. Meier reports that, “They have described their ancient ancestry, and consequently ours, as originating in a far sun-system in a star group near what we now know as the Ring Nebula of Lyra, for which we have called them Lyrans in the same manner as we refer to human beings from what we call the Pleiades." The quote fron Billy Meier reminded me of a Secret Sun blog post about the Ring Nebula of Lyra. "Anyway, even in the crudely observed form of 1782, the Ring Nebula was considered important enough by Masonic occultists to be included on the Great Seal." from https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-great-seal-decoded-finally.html?spref=pi The KGB Alien Races Book mentioned a race from Lyra that call themselves "Afim Spiantsy". 2. The Arcturians: That picture is of the 9 foot tall inter-dimensional from the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This article says the Black Knight Satellite was one of their probes, but according to this article, https://www.disclose.tv/the-black-knight-13000-year-old-alien-satellite-orbiting-earth-309398, "When its signals were decoded, it stated that this satellite originated from the Epsilon Bootes star system some 13,000 years ago." Either way, it would have originated in Bootes. The KGB Alien Races Book mentioned a race from Bootes called Elffaf near Asellus Primus not Arcturus. 3. The Telosians: The picture has already been all over the internet. On Tumblr: https://ufos-and-aliens.tumblr.com/post/112143187642 The story about the picture can be read here: https://shadowsineden.blogspot.com/p/a-nordic-anunnaki-alien.html?spref=pi The article mentions Mt. Shasta and Admiral Richard Byrd already featured prominently in stories about UFOs from underground. The fourth and fifth species listed were the Alpha Centaurians and the Pleiadians. Sharing insight is welcome.

[ancienttheblackangel]

Fallen Anu-Seraphim hybrid, Lyra Aveyon) Phantom Alpha/Omega Centauri, Nibiru, Tiamat.

APIN System

NDC-Grid/NCT-Bases/NET, Phoenix, Serpent Nibiruian APINs.

Primary Races

Vichoritz insectoid-serpent-hominid (Thoth-Enki Lulitan family-Amealian-Anunnaki/Marduke Satain family-Amealian-Anunnaki/Necromiton- Andromie hybrid) and Vichor Light-haired Humanoiid (Pleiadian-Amealian-Anunnaki/Vichoritz hybrid) Nibiru, Tiamat, Alpha Centauri. Centaur-Luciferians Hominid-Centaur hybrids (Vichoritz-Centaur) Alpha Centaur.

Core Agenda

ART DESIGN ANCIENTTHEBLACKANGEL

Luciferian-Anunnaki Pleiadian-Nibiruian Coalition and/or Necromiton-Andromie Orion-Necromiton Black League.

[voidplume]

okay hi sorry im on desktop now and this might need to be in multiple parts cause this fucking…….. character has just had So Much done to him its unreal

im gonna start with the fact that the way the warframe story is written through quests which are accessed at differing levels makes this…… a bit hard for me to try and explain. most of this “timeline” happened at WILDLY different times in terms of irl actual development so please like. bear w/ me here

also Fun Fact, ive given rigel not one, not two, but three separate playlists on spotify based on his “eras”

actually doing this with his Eras is fucking genius so lets start w/ his first one

The Waking Army

im going to start this with a funny fun fact in that the way rigel is Supposed to be said is not at all how i fucking pronounce his name (its apparently rai-juhl. i said it ree-gehl. like regal but with an e at the end) anyways yeah his full name is Rigel Toliman Kentaurus after two of the three stars in the Alpha Centauri triple star system (Centauri AB)

his extended family is essentially a group of like minded people who have, for the past couple of generations, changed to this name to reflect their common desire to become the first people to settle the Centauri system. its because of this actually that they become so heavily invested in the Zariman 10-0 and its voyage. hes born the older twin to Proxima (now known as Lyra) to a young couple in his clan, neither of which have the heart do what the orokin would deem a fit fate for twins. instead, they both kind of become the same person? their parents essentially only let one out at a time while the other remains in hiding, playing the persona of Vega Kentaurus.

the only person that really knows about this whole Ordeal is their maternal aunt, who eventually takes Proxima into her care once both their parents decide to move onto the Zariman for its voyage. if it were up to their mother, both would have gone, but it was decided that keeping the two of them together in such close quarters wouldve been too dangerous.

ANYWAYS blah blah void jump shit. tnw begining as far as zariman scenes is pretty standard. everyone on the ship knows him as vega and hes more or less the Weird kid in the back of class

regardless, when the void jump happens uh…….. many weird things begin. for the sake of how im explaining this, im keeping this part brief and saying that he flits in and out of refuge circles, becoming even more of the weird kid than before. not like kicked out of social circles level of weird like Apparently Rell Was (dont fucking get me started) but hes still…… awkward. distant. he doesnt talk much, and when he does it always seems like his mind is halfway across the ship.

blah blah the zariman gets yanked to the origin system to drop the kids off. once out of the void, he seems to calm down a great deal more, but once again theres something off about him. orokin tests involving tenno and the warframes quickly find that this one in particular can hold transference in MULTIPLE frames at once. yes this is scary and dangerous for him. no they do not care. this is the part where the “army” technically wakes as he’s very rapidly outfitted with a wild fucking arsenal of warframes and weapons.

now by Multiple Transference, i literally mean several warframes at once. like you know how squads are Four People doing a mission? yeah he could do that solo. and still fill all four slots.

“but vik thats pretty mary sue” i know it only gets worse. he has three “main” frames in his arsenal, which btw each of his frames has its own codename. now he used to basically be the orokin’s Golden Child if you will. like one of their “best” tenno, although this still wasnt really a good thing for him considering they considered him more of an object than anything else.

during his contribution to the fight against the sentients, there was a casualty he suffered that sort of caused his whole system to go fucking haywire. something something they got the upper hand on him and their attacks caused a feedback of void energy regurgitating through transference to quite literally blow up in his face. i did a short fic of this a LONG fucking time ago on ao3 thats a bit more poetic about describing it. basically the void scar up the center of his face is self inflicted. also a majority of his frames become fried as hell and need extensive repairs.

this kinda leads into the emotional dampener stage of his life, which only got resolved relatively recently. cause like until this point i figured its fairly Obvious hes just as autistic and bipolar as i am, but his life as Vega had revolved around making himself as palatable as possible for everyone else. something about the void surge kind of…. fucks this for him. he becomes erratic and “unpredictable”. and the orokin, desperate to not lose a really good weapon, decide to just plug these funny little toys into his warframes to essentially make him completely devoid of emotion when piloting them. thing is only certain frames really take to them and the others uh…

Quasar is a Volt Umbra also nicknamed the Sole Founder (volt was my first initial frame) is his overall favorite and is…….. probably the most powerful frame in his arsenal. (not the case in game, but who fucking cares) hes the frame struck by the sentients during the void feedback and is the most affected by it, basically reverting to his pre-tenno behavior. ie animalistic and senselessly violent. the orokin ATTEMPT to fit him with a dampener, but it fails to work and eventually grows incredibly damaged

Nebula is his Nezha Prime also nicknamed the True Trickster. initially he was a very reliable, albeit a bit childish, defensive and speed frame. while he wasnt there for the sentient attack, he Was still fried mid arsenal check, and thus fitted with a dampener. however, his always manages to glitch out eventually, allowing rigel to very briefly showcase his true intent. completely mary sue moment, but id like to think that this “glitch” is the only reason we still have the relics of Reshantur in nezha’s leverian.

Binary is his Equinox Prime also nicknamed the Crown Jewels. on account of the fact that theyre technically two frames, actually. Binary is the night form, one of only a handful of his frames to use she pronouns, and Gemini is the day. neither were actualy affected by the sentient attack AT ALL, and thus their dampener survived in a flawless state up until removal.

now becuase of the whole Vega/Proxima fiasco, rigel has a history of not really being able to tell people No? considering he had to lie and manipulate to stay alive as a child (as well as keep his sister safe) at the behest of his parents, its very easy for someone with more power or influence than him to come along and literally just start giving him orders that he will genuinely actually follow without questioning. this is literally how the orokin sweep him up so fast, and how the Lotus AND the Red Veil continue this trend.

see Lotus did love him like one of her children, but like….. lets be real. shes one mother to HUNDREDS of tenno. she has so many to pay attention to that rigels Issues around emotions and authority kinda fell to the wayside and it honestly was much easy to ignore them than to address it.

similar with the Veil. they scoop him up in the midst of Rell’s “holy rule” over them (i have too many fucking opinions about CoH to thoroughly explain my thought process here sorry) and more or less follow EXACTLY in the orokin’s footsteps to make him a more powerful weapon.

at this point its just been deal after raw fucking deal for this kid BUT WAIT THERES MORE.

he does the whole tenno sleep shit and basically wakes up to the veil freaking the fuck out over rell’s disappearance (“RIGEL WAKE UP YOU FUCKED UP BIG TIME” “palladino….”) and being very rapidly groomed to take his place. queue that one RP i had with @redacted-metallum like years ago where lil rev peer pressured rigel into being a Normal Kid and it got his fucking arm cut off (he still hates bucher units)

anyways this is around the time where he meets the clan, helps awaken lazarus, and begins to have his dampeners removed. this is ALL pre new war so like. gimmie like another Fucking Hour and ill finish writing that era or some shit

post more rigel lore... please... they're so cool

RI IS SOO SO SPECIAL TO ME!! this ask made me so excited when i saw it thank you anon!!!!!!!

rigel is vik @helmofhades ’s beautiful boy!! he’s his tenno oc and laz is his right hand arm man. his everything. his confidante. his silly rabbit. (does he call him that? no.)

for serious though rigel is so cool. he’s a void angel! he’s a one man army! he’s a slut! he’s an overwhelmed single dad! he chugs more kuva than the average kuva lich (he’s just self medicating, trust him on this)!! he’s even PURPLE!!!!!! he’s got it all!!!!!!!!

i’m gonna pass the mic over to vik so he can elaborate, because rigel has a lot going on and i knwo i won’t do him justice on my own. check that out in the notes soonish (and go follow him while you’re at it! wtf!!!)

[ohnoitspheo]

The Prismatic Squad Hits the Beach! ☀️

For fun and practice, I did some edits and redraws of my main cast in bathing suits. Cobbled em together for a cute collection of sillies and goths.

Did you know... Nova can't swim? (More on that later)

Prismatic Beach AU Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

[collectivegaydinosaur]

WHAT THE STARS ARE

"Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

Sun is the nearest star about 93,000,000 miles away. If we could fly thirty miles an hour and should set out for the sun, not pausing for rest night or day, we should reach our destination in 345 years!

The earth is merely "the second-rate satellite of a second-rate star!"

The solar system alone is over 5,000 millions of miles in diameter.

In the entire stellar system there are probably about 500,000,000 stars.

Between the earth and Alpha-Centauri (invisible only in southern latitudes) stretches an immense desert of space, twenty five billions of miles across.

Professor Ball says that it would take 300,000 years of ceaseless counting day and night even to count that num'ber of miles. It takes light four years to come from this star to the earth.

If we could view our own Earth from mirrors reflected in the stars, we might still see Moses crossing the Red Sea, or Adam and Eve being expelled from Eden!"

To measure the distance of a star from the Earth. The process merely involves taking certain angular measurements on the sky, and applying to them certain simple theorems well-known to the student of trigonometry. Right here is called into use a certain high-sounding astronomical term — parallax.

The parallax of a distant point is the angle made by the crossing of two lines of vision directed one at each side of the object

Heliometer for making angular measurements on the sky.

The farthermost object known in the heavens is a globular star-cluster at a distance of 1,260 quadrillion miles.

It takes about four years to come from Alpha-Centauri.

Light reaches us from :

61 Cygni, our first star to be measuredat a distance of fifty-three billions of miles away, in about seven years ;

Fom Sirius, the most brilliant star in the sky, fifty-eight billions of miles distant, in eight years.

A little over twenty-nine years in reaching us from Aldebaran, "the Bull's eye";

Forty-four years to come from the Pole star;

And over two hundred years to travel from Arcturus, the brightest star in the northern constellation of Bootes, the Herdsman.

Speaking of this enormous sun of space, Serviss says:

"Imagine the earth and other planets constituting the solar system removed to Arcturus and set revolving round it in orbits of the same forms and sizes as those in which they circle about the Sun. Poor Mercury! For that little planet it would indeed be a jump from the frying pan into the fire, because as it rushed toperihelion, the point of its orbit nearest the Sun, Mercury would plunge more than 2,500,000 miles beneath the surface of the giant star. Venus and the Earth would melt like snowflakes at the mouth a furnace. Even far-away Neptune would swelter in torrid heat."

"One star differeth from another star in glory."

Not only are the stars to be found at all distances, but they vary in size, and frequently their marvelous immensity is even more overwhelming than their distance.

Thanks to the spectroscope we not only know of what the stars are made, but we are able to discern that they revolve in orbits.

"The constellation Orion preserves throughout the ages its well-known form. Similarly the Plow shines down on us to-day as it did on the kingdom of Israel and on the plains of Troy. So that for all practical purposes we are correct in speaking of the fixed stars. And yet, scientifically speaking, we are wrong. The stars are no more fixed than are the planets. Indeed, many of the stars are moving through space with a velocity far greater than the swiftest of the planets.

For example, 61 Cygni moves at the rate of thirty miles per second; while the bright star Arcturus has been calculated to have a velocity of no less than 376 miles per second. But so distant are the stars, so deep are they sunk in the depths of space, that in the course of hundreds, even thousands of years, the casual star-gazer can detect no difference in their positions."

Our own Sun, with his system of worlds, is moving along at the rate of eleven miles per second toward the constellation of Lyra, aiming apparently for the star known as Delta-Lyrse.

The spectroscope is to show us that the stars are not all moving in the same direction. For example, the brilliant star Aldebaran is speeding away from our system at the astonishing rate of thirty miles per second. Some stars share "their proper motions with others." That is they move along at the same rate as some other neighboring star or stars.

For instance, five of the seven stars which make up the familiar constellation of the Big Dipper are moving with the same velocity and in the same direction, and it is apparent that they form one star-system, even though they are separated from one another by billions of miles.

A certain German astronomer fixed upon the constellation of Perseus as the center of the stellar universe; another of his countrymen believed he had found conclusive evidence that the stars all centered around Alcyone, the chief star of the Pleiades.

Professor Garret P. Serviss, who sees the great Milky Way driving through space, "like a flat shining raft, built up of hundreds of millions of stars our little Sun being lost among them and drawing in from, either side, and from distances of hundreds of quadrillions of miles, vast stellar organisms, of a globular shape, on which it feeds and grows, while from before it, like frightened flocks of strange winged creatures, hatched in the midst of the mysterious and boundless ether, flee the spiral nebulae, speeding madly on—on–on."

Temporary stars, as they are called, rose from a violent collision between two heavenly bodies.

The spectroscope, by analyzing the flame produced, not only showed this highly improbable, but suggested what is now universally accepted as the real solution, that two stars in their journey through space happen into a nebulous region, and thus flare up by reason of friction—a theory that is further supported by the fact that temporary stars seem, nearly always to be involved with a nebulous haze.

Many instances of temporary stars are on record, one of the earliest having been seen by Hipparchus, the famous Greek astronomer, in the year 134 B. C.

One of the most notable heavenly conflagrations took place in May, 1866, when an ordinary telescopic star suddenly blazed forth with such intensity that in a few hours it increased its brilliance nearly a thousand fold.

Careful spectroscopic study of its phenomena showed that the outburst was due to an explosion of hydrogen gas, and the incident caused no little uneasiness everywhere.

An Edinburgh astronomer, thus voicing the fear of all: "Not only would all the various forms of life on Earth be utterly destroyed, but on all the members of our solar system there would be such a change effected, that if any life existed even on the remote Neptune it would at once be completely extinguished. Probably the life that existed on the whole system of worlds that circled round this distant star must have been annihilated, and as the heat and light of this star increased so very suddenly, there could have been given but short warning to the inhabitants of these worlds."

Temporary stars only blaze up once and then die down, but there is another class, called variable stars, which are quite as remarkable, and have given astronomers even more difficult hours to account for their peculiarity.

These stars get brighter and brighter up to a certain point, then wane, only to brighten again, with a regularity that can be reckoned with the utmost accuracy.

Some go through their course in three days, others take much longer, the maximum being 600 days.

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Bob hearing the line cut dead at home knew exactly what it was, interference from the anti gravity drive from the saucer. 

Bob: I got to get home Sanjay....

Bob exploded through the door running like there was a rocket up his own backside. He was terrified that they had come for Lyra... somehow, he just knew, they had Lyra.

***

As he raced to the car park he tried to make sense of why they would take Lyra? This didn’t make sense, pollinators took men normally as the pollination technique utilised the Y chromosome in males to create the new Sixamite. Dr Normill explained it to him before but he didn’t understand... unless, they grabbed Lyra by mistake.... He soon realised none of this was actually helping him....

***

He was able to get home very quickly he confirmed his worst fears and sat down outside waiting they would return her they always did. But why her?! 

Perhaps this ship had been in deep space and was unaware of the non-pollination agreement? It would take 5 and a half years to reach Alpha Centauri at close to speed of light, yet, 98 years would pass on Earth, this is time dilation, time slows down as you approach speed of light. So if this ship had been at close to light speed for say... 10 to 11 months, then 20 years could have passed on Earth.... it was a possibility. One he prayed was the case.

Bob sighed and kept waiting. The ship was high above the Earth, it didn’t answer hails. They never did during a pollination trip... 

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Scientists Reveal How Many Interstellar Objects May Be Visiting Our Solar System

https://sciencespies.com/space/scientists-reveal-how-many-interstellar-objects-may-be-visiting-our-solar-system/

Scientists Reveal How Many Interstellar Objects May Be Visiting Our Solar System

In October 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the Solar System. Less than two years later, a second object was detected, an easily-identified interstellar comet designated as 2I/Borisov.

The appearance of these two objects verified earlier theoretical work that concluded that interstellar objects (ISOs) regularly enter our Solar System.

The question of how often this happens has been the subject of considerable research since then. According to a new study led by researchers from the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is), roughly seven ISOs enter our Solar System every year and follow predictable orbits while they are here.

This research could allow us to send a spacecraft to rendezvous with one of these objects in the near future.

The research that describes these findings was conducted by multiple researchers from i4is, a non-profit organization dedicated to the realization of interstellar flight in the very near future.

They were joined by researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology, Harvard’s Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), the University of Texas at Austin, the Technical University of Munich, and the Observatoire de Paris.

‘Oumuamua through the William Herschel Telescope. (Queen’s University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope)

The study of ‘Oumuamua in October of 2017 set off a revolution in astronomy and the study of celestial objects. Not only was this an object that had formed in another star system, but its arrival and detection implied a large population of such objects.

The detection of 2I/Borisov in 2019 confirmed what many astronomers already suspected – that ISOs enter our Solar System on a pretty regular basis.

In addition to being a physicist with the i4is (and the lead author on the study), Marshall Eubanks is the Chief Scientist of Space Initiatives Inc. and CEO of Asteroid Initiatives LLC. As he told Universe Today via email, the discovery of ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov is significant in a way that cannot be understated:

“[J]ust by proving that they exist, it has had a profound impact, creating a field of study almost from nothing (a field that funding authorities are just beginning to recognize). Interstellar Objects provide us with the opportunity to study, and in the future literally touch, exobodies decades before the earliest possible missions to even the nearest stars, such as Proxima Centauri.”

This led to multiple proposals for missions that could rendezvous with future ISOs that were spotted passing through our system. One such proposal was Project Lyra, which researchers from the i4is shared in a 2017 study (with support from Asteroid Initiatives LLC).

There’s also the ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission, which they plan to launch in 2029 to rendezvous with a long-period comet.

“We started working on potential missions to interstellar objects in 2017, right after the discovery of ‘Oumuamua and we initially rather focused on chasing that specific object, in contrast to Seligman & Laughlin, who focused on ISOs that might be discovered in the future,” said Eubanks.

“The Comet Interceptor mission would fall into a similar category (build-and-wait).”

Given that ISOs formed in another star system, the opportunity to study them up close would offer scientists insight into the conditions that are present there. In fact, the study of ISOs is the next best thing to sending interstellar probes to neighboring star systems.

Of course, any such mission entails a lot of technical challenges, not to mention the need for advance warning. As Eubanks explained:

“There are two basic types of missions here – plan and wait, or launch and wait, missions, such as the ESA Comet Interceptor, and chase missions, such as would be needed to reach 1I/’Oumuamua. It is very unlikely that any chase missions will be able to rendezvous with a retreating ISO – these will almost certainly be restricted to fast flybys. Rendezvous missions, missions to match velocities and orbit or land the ISO, will need advance warning.”

To illustrate, when astronomers first became aware of ‘Oumuamua, it was only after the object had already made its closest approach to the Sun (aka. perihelion passage) and made a close pass by Earth.

Because of this, observers had only 11 days to conduct observations as it made its way out of the Solar System and was beyond the reach of their instruments.

Artist’s impression of 2I/Borisov beyond our Solar System. (S. DagnelloNRAO/NSF/AUI)

In the case of 2I/Borisov, amateur astronomer and telescope-maker Gennadiy Borisov caught sight of it on August 30th, 2019, roughly three months before it reached perihelion (December 8th, 2019).

But for future missions to rendezvous with them, it is imperative to know as much as possible about how often ISOs arrive and how fast they are traveling when they do.

For the sake of their study, Eubanks and his colleagues sought to place better constraints on these two variables. To do this, they began by taking into account how an interstellar object’s velocity is influenced by the local standard of rest (LSR) – the mean motion of stars, gas, and dust in the Milky Way in the vicinity of the Sun:

“We assume that ISOs come from or are formed with stars and their planetary systems, and that after they are on their own they share the same galactic dynamics as stars do. We use the two known ISOs, 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, and the efficiency of past and current astronomical surveys to estimate the number of these objects in the galaxy, and stellar velocity estimates from the Gaia mission to estimate the velocity spread we should expect.”

What they found was that in an average year, the Solar System would be visited by up to seven ISOs that are asteroid-like. Meanwhile, objects like 2I/Borisov (comets) would be rarer, appearing around once every 10 to 20 years.

They further found that many of these objects would be moving at velocities greater that of ‘Oumuamua – which was moving at over 26 km/s before and after picking up a boost from the Sun.

Knowing these parameters will help scientists prepare for possible rendezvous missions with ISOs, something which Eubanks and his colleagues covered in more detail in a previous study – “Interstellar Now! Missions to Explore Nearby Interstellar Objects“.

As Universe Today reported at the time of its release, the study addressed a wider range of potential ISOs and the feasibility of reaching them.

In the meantime, this latest study provides basic information that will support the planning and implementation of these missions. In addition to Project Lyra and the ESA’s Comet Interceptor, there are numerous proposals for spacecraft that could rendezvous with interstellar objects (or even make the interstellar journey themselves).

These include Project Dragonfly, a small spacecraft and laser sail that was the subject of a conceptual design study hosted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4iS) in 2013.

Another is Breakthrough Starshot, a concept put forward by Yuri Milner and Breakthrough Initiatives that also calls for a tiny spacecraft to be sent to Alpha Centauri using a lightsail and a powerful laser array.

This proposal has been articulated in recent years by Prof. Abraham Loeb and Prof. Manasvi Lingam. Whereas Leob is the founder of the ITC and Chair of the Starshot Advisory Committee, Lingham is a longtime researcher with the ITC and a co-author on the “Interstellar Now!” and this latest paper.

In addition to going interstellar, these concepts have been proposed as a possible way of “chasing objects” that enter our Solar System.

One way or another, we will be peaking at other star systems soon! And knowing how to intercept and study the objects they periodically kick our way is a good way to start!

This article was originally published by Universe Today. Read the original article.

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Galactic History of the Lyran races And Reptilian races and the Great galactic wars. Mankind is not the only intelligent species in this galaxy, and neither are we the only humanoid civilisation. Even within our immediate galactic neighbourhood, there are several humanoid races. Most of them are physical; some are not. Most of these races have visited the Earth. Some of them still do, and even have bases on Earth. Some alien humanoid races also played an important part in the history of Earth and of mankind. As a matter of fact, mankind did not even originate here on planet Earth. We are descendants of these other human-like races who visited Earth aeons ago. Therefore, if we wish to understand our history and our nature as a species, we have to go back in time, millions of years ago, to those worlds where mankind came into existence. The most important humanoid civilisations can be found in the star systems of Lyra, Vega, Sirius, Orion, the Pleiades, and Andromeda. Lyra is the place where the cradle of the humanoid races once stood, millions of year ago. Most races are descendants from the Lyran/Vegan Groups. They usually are crossbreeds between local stock and Lyran/Vegan DNA. To understand our history, we have to understand their history: How they ventured into space and started colonizing; How they encountered other races and civilisations; How conflicts erupted with other civilisations, and how this led to mass migrations and to endless wars. Some wars are on Earth, are re-enactments of wars that have already been fought elsewhere. Early Stages Most sources agree that, in our part of the Galaxy, the cradle of mankind stood in the constellation of Lyra, 40 million years ago. Over time several humanoid species evolved. The majority of them were Lyran Caucasians, who looked virtually identical to the Caucasian race on Earth, today (though many of them were taller). Approximately 22 million years ago, they were capable of travelling to other stars. As soon as they started exploring other systems in their galactic vicinity, they also began to colonise neighbouring planets. It didn't take long before they came across other humanoid races. The first such race they encountered was in Vega, also within the Lyran constellation (but fairly close to Earth, as it is only 25 light years away from us). Vega, too, was inhabited by humanoid races, most of them brown-skinned. These first encounters went peacefully. Soon the populations started interacting, and joined forces in the further exploration and colonisation of space. They went to Andromeda, Pleiades, Cygnus Alpha,Tau Ceti, Orion, Sirius, Altair, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus , Antares, Hyades, Sagittarius A & B Cassiopia, Procyon and other worlds. One of the first non-humanoid races they came across was the Reptilian race that had its home in the Draco constellation. Nobody is really sure where the Draco originated. They ‘were brought' here from another another universe, billions of years ago. They were capable of space travel long before mankind even existed. At the time of the first encounters the Draco Reptilians already had been exploring and colonizing for aeons, and had a vast organised empire, usually referred to as the Draconian Empire . This empire still exists today, and is one of the main players on the galactic exopolitical scene. The empire originated on Thuban (Alpha Draconis), and consists mainly of various groups of reptilian and dinosaur-like species, but humanoid worlds have joined, too, some forcefully, some willingly. – Its most important members are based in Alpha Draconis, Epsilon Bootes, Zeta II Reticuli, Polaris, Rigel (Orion), Bellatrix (Orion), Capella (Alpha Aurigae) Ursa minor and Ursa major Sirius B Hydra , etc. The first encounters between the Lyran/Vegan explorers and the Draconian explorers did not go well. Conflicts broke out over worlds they both wanted to colonize, and had claimed for themselves. It was in the Ring Nebula that the first fights broke out. Things then came to a dramatic escalation when the Draconians engaged in a full force attack upon the Lyran home planets and destroyed several of them, killing millions of Lyrans. At that time, however, the majority of Lyrans had already emigrated to other worlds. They vowed to retaliate. The Orion Wars While the first encounters and first conflicts between the two species took place in the Lyra Constellation, it was Orion that would become the main stage for their altercations. The worlds of Orion, at that time, were inhabited by various groups of Lyrans, Vegans, and Reptilians. (The Greys only came much later). After the Draconian Reptilians had attacked the Lyran home worlds, the Lyrans in the Orion colonies retaliated by attacking Reptilian colonies in Orion. Of course, the Draconian Reptilians responded. By that time, however, some humanoid (mainly Vegan) races had already started co-operating with reptilian races because they found they shared a common agenda of space exploration and colonisation. (This co-operation would eventually lead to the establishment of the Orion Empire . This Orion Empire is more recent than the Draconian Empire, and was established after the Vegans engaged in space exploration. It consists of a mixture of reptilian and humanoid civilisations. Nowadays, the Reptilians in Orion are genectically enginered half breeds of the original Draco/Ciakar reptilian races form the majority of these reptilian civilisations, whereas most of the humanoid civilisations are of Lyran/Vegan descent. Approximately one in every six worlds in the Orion constellation has a reptilian population. When the wars between the Lyrans and Draconians started, there was no Orion Empire, yet; but there where co-operation agreements). The wars escalated fast. Several worlds that been subjugated by the Draconians, started an uprising and joined the Lyrans in fighting the Draconians. This joining of forces would lead to the foundation of a “ Federation of Planets ” whose members stood united in fighting the Draconians. The Federation still exists today, and still is one of the main players. It consists of civilisations from the Lyra constellation, from the Andromeda Constellation, from the Pleiades and Hyades open clusters, from Iumma [Wolf 424], Procyon, Tau Ceti, Alpha Centauri, and Epsilon Eridani, all of which are of Lyran/Vegan heritage. They were joined by a number of non-physical races, by some Sirian groups, as well as by some Orion organisations, and by various civilisations from a parallel universe such as the Koldasians. It even got some unexpected members when some worlds with reptilian inhabitants joined, wanting to free themselves from submission to the Draconians. The Vegans and Reptilians of Orion that had made co-operation agreements with each other, probably established the Orion Empire around the same time as the Federation came into existence. In all likelihood, they did this to stay out of the wars. That plan, however, was to fail. Over time the nature of the wars changed. Where the war initially was over territory, it became a war of mind-sets and ideologies. On the one hand there was a group of mainly humanoid races that had joined forces in the Federation. Many of its members felt they had been ‘victimised' by the Draconians, and therefore rejected the idea of colonisation and intervention in other worlds. Gradually, they became committed to the idea of service to others . On the other hand there was a mixed group of humanoids and reptilian races that propagated service to self . In this ideology, the Draconian and Orion Empires found each other as like-minded, and this would lead to their joining forces. Since then, they are often referred to as the Orion/Draconian Empires. Initially the philosophy of service to self implied that when everybody takes care of him- or herself, then the whole is taken care of, too. But gradually it changed into service to self, if necessary at the expense of others, which resulted in “victimisers” and “victims.” The victims and their allies, who had joined forces in a Federation, started looking upon the victimisers as evil, while they started seeing themselves as good. A s a result the wars got polarised, and ended up being wars of duality, even though things didn't start of like that, at all. Now history is filled with examples of how a polarised conflict can never be resolved as long as the polarities remain. It was no different in the Orion wars that lasted for aeons, but where no breakthroughs by either side would ever be lasting. Migrations The earliest humanoid civilisations were explorers and colonisers, which led to some migrations. When the wars erupted, more migrations followed. If we dramatically simplify things, we could say that the spread of mankind through this part of the galaxy, over millions of years, happened in seven consecutive waves of colonizations/migrations. 1. As was mentioned before, the story starts in Lyra, where approx. 22 million years ago, the first humanoid civilisations began their space exploration adventures, to boldly go where no man had gone before. The first worlds they colonised were Vega, that itself was already inhabited by a humanoid species, and Apex. Later on the Lyran explorers would also move to Sirius, and on to Orion; while others already came to Earth, and from Earth moved on to the Pleiades. 2. The original humanoid population of Vega soon started their own space explorations, and created settlements on worlds in Altair, Centauri, Sirius, and Orion. Some of them even came to Earth. While exploring the Ring Nebula, they came across lizard-like races that claimed the territory for themselves. This is where the Galactic wars erupted. 3. A nuclear war on Apex destroyed much of its surface, forcing its inhabitants to live underground for thousands of years. The radiation also damaged their reproductive capacities, forcing them to use cloning as a way to survive as a species. The Apexians would become the Greys from Zeta Reticuli. 4. Settlers also moved to Arcturus, where as a species, they advanced very fast. Most Arcturians nowadays are non-physical, higher-dimensional beings, though physical races still exist as well. 5. In the worlds around Sirius the humanoid settlers found many other species that were not like them at all. Some settlers therefore chose to move on to Orion. Later on, loads of Sirians migrated to Earth, too. 6. The main battleground for the Galactic Wars was in Orion. Because of this, many descendants of humanoid settlers in Orion, fled, and also migrated to Earth. 7. Some of the very first Lyran colonizers had to come to Earth. When their descendants were afraid the Galactic Wars were coming too close to Earth, most of them moved to the Pleiades. After time, however, some of their descendants decided to hook up with their relatives from Earth again, and came back to Earth.

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