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things not in the solar system33 items
solar system16 items

Reviews

Heat death of the universe
Heat death of the universe

just dress up warm? it's not that hard.

11/7/2026
Poincaré disk model
Poincaré disk model

servicable.

11/7/2026
Great conjunction
Great conjunction

i'm still waiting on a terrible conjunction.

11/7/2026
Syzygy (astronomy)
Syzygy (astronomy)

this is an excellent word. it's an okay phenomenon. eclipses and occultations are mostly this, so that's neat.

11/7/2026
3-sphere
3-sphere

it's a nice concept but a terrible travel destination.

11/7/2026
Hyperbolic geometry
Hyperbolic geometry

i want to live here.

11/7/2026 · 1 comment
HyperRogue
HyperRogue

best.

11/7/2026
Noita (video game)
Noita (video game)

it's pretty good. it can get a little stale once you've undergone most content and can play the game well reliably.

11/7/2026
Starbound
Starbound

i love to hate loving it.

11/7/2026
Full moon
Full moon

it's not that interesting to look at in this phase honestly. that said, being its brightest, and being up all night, it does have its own interesting properties.

11/7/2026
Meteorite
Meteorite

i hear it calling.

11/7/2026
Orange juice
Orange juice

it's fine.

11/7/2026
Water
Water

it's a really good substance. obviously its importance to life is cool but i like more how it has these really convenient melting and boiling points, and forms fun crystals. it's also a very nice solvent.

11/7/2026 · 1 comment
Coordinate system
Coordinate system

this is one of the best things.

11/7/2026
Right ascension
Right ascension

its origin is kind of weirdly defined.

11/7/2026
EMudhra
EMudhra

four stars from me.

11/7/2026
QL (chemical)
QL (chemical)

fish sauce. goes incredibly well with sulfur as seasoning.

11/7/2026
Fogbank
Fogbank

i'd like to fill my lungs with it.

11/7/2026
Dioxygen difluoride
Dioxygen difluoride

this is what i'm going to build my house out of.

11/7/2026
VX (nerve agent)
VX (nerve agent)

i greatly enjoy its versatility, especially with the likes of QL and sulfur.

11/7/2026
Dendrogaster
Dendrogaster

w. d. gaster.

11/7/2026
W.D. Gaster
W.D. Gaster

i'm so green.

11/7/2026
Fog
Fog

good.

11/7/2026
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

loathe.

11/7/2026
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra

i like shadows.

11/7/2026
22° halo
22° halo

i haven't ever seen one of these around the sun but they're around the moon all the time. it looks really intimidating when it's a little high up and you have an unobstructed view of it.

11/7/2026
Lunar eclipse
Lunar eclipse

partial lunar eclipses are so colourful.

11/7/2026
Solar eclipse
Solar eclipse

this is one of the coolest things about having a moon.

11/7/2026
Abyssal plain
Abyssal plain

excellent name.

11/7/2026
Capitalism
Capitalism

i wish i could give 0 stars.

11/7/2026
Ambiguity
Ambiguity

i really like this.

11/7/2026
Evil
Evil

i don't like it.

11/7/2026
Mediocrityprinciple
Mediocrity principle

it's okay, i guess.

11/7/2026
Good
Good

i mean, obviously.

11/7/2026
Executivedysfunction
Executive dysfunction

thus i decay and rot.

11/7/2026
Orion's Belt
Orion's Belt

rated 3 stars not because i think it's mediocre but because it's really funny. this joins the plough/big dipper and pleiades as one of the few asterisms probably known by people.

11/7/2026
Brocchi's Cluster
Brocchi's Cluster

coathanger. love this. i can resolve this as a dim haze naked eye and as the coathanger with a bit of magnification on top of that.

11/7/2026
Minecraft modding
Minecraft modding

i really love the needlessly expensive ticon smeltry image on this page.

11/7/2026
Theta Tauri
Theta Tauri

really fun double star to look at with the eye.

11/7/2026
Sleep
Sleep

that existing depends on this makes my life hell.

11/7/2026
Coma Star Cluster
Coma Star Cluster

dim but large; one of my favourite naked eye visible star clusters next to the hyades.

11/7/2026
Hercules (constellation)
Hercules (constellation)

it's a bit confusable with its surroundings but it has some prominent globular clusters in easily findable locations. it's very fun to see clearly when it's high up.

11/7/2026
Messier 92
Messier 92

you can go look at this if you get bored of M13.

11/7/2026
NGC 6229
NGC 6229

the Triangle. (the wikipedia image does not really do its surrounding context justice.)

11/7/2026
NGC 6633
NGC 6633

i like this one for its position and naked eye visibility. i think there's some injustice in it only having a NGC designation. messier, is this not also a non-comet?

11/7/2026
Castor (star)
Castor (star)

a six star system. pollux and castor are of course an iconic duo. despite the presence of 6 stars, sadly i can only rate at most 5 stars.

11/7/2026
Polaris
Polaris

it's okay as a star. its position is very important of course. i want justice for the southern hemisphere though; they don't have a good pole star.

11/7/2026
Capella
Capella

a very nicely positioned bright star. i like the triangle next to it.

11/7/2026
Vulpecula
Vulpecula

huge constellation "L". it has the coathanger which i honestly feel like sagitta should have instead.

11/7/2026
Great Rift (astronomy)
Great Rift (astronomy)

iconic, glorious.

11/7/2026
Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula

i'm almost tempted to say 'overrated' but honestly it's just rated. very cool nebula; the most readily visible of its kind to me. maybe i'd prefer M8 if only i could see it.

11/7/2026
Surreal number
Surreal number

excellent. sadly these aren't CGVs or i'd make some joke about 5 stars.

11/7/2026
Partial differential equation
Partial differential equation

everything is these. that's the problem, though.

11/7/2026
Countercurrent exchange
Countercurrent exchange

honestly love that this is possible.

11/7/2026
Procyon
Procyon

it gets points for having a cool name and being part of a cool triangle.

11/7/2026
Suffering
Suffering

i don't like it.

11/7/2026
Vega
Vega

the only star i could readily visibly call 'blue', probably. (i'm not very good at seeing blue stars as such.)

11/7/2026
Arcturus
Arcturus

great name and one of the more distinctly visibly colourful ones.

11/7/2026
Oort cloud
Oort cloud

terrifying.

11/7/2026
Messier 35
Messier 35

neat cluster with some neat surrounding stars. it's also bright enough for peoples' phone cameras to pick up sometimes, and is easy to find from surrounding stars, so it's fun to point out in pictures.

11/7/2026
1 Geminorum
1 Geminorum

i only love you for your vague proximity to M35.

11/7/2026
T Coronae Borealis
T Coronae Borealis

my review will increase when its magnitude does.

11/7/2026
Algol
Algol

my review for this goes down to 2 stars every 3 days. (not really.)

11/7/2026
Triangulum Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy

tricky one. apparently some people can see this with their eyes. not me. it kind of reminds me of M31 but it's much dimmer.

11/7/2026
Messier 110
Messier 110

it sure is there, i guess. at least it has a bigger angular size than M32.

11/7/2026
Messier 32
Messier 32

not a lot going for it on its own but it is neat to point out to people that the slightly fuzzy star they see by M31 is actually an entire galaxy.

11/7/2026
Messier 82
Messier 82

my thoughts on this are not overly distinct from that of M81. it's a little trickier to see under worse conditions or with binoculars, but my rating is the same.

11/7/2026
Messier 81
Messier 81

this and M82 are iconic. it's nice to see two galaxies in roughly the same area.

11/7/2026
Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

takes up a shockingly large area of the night sky for something so far away. i like how unfathomable it is (moreso a property of galaxies in general, but still). and it's even coming over here and everything. also its satellite galaxies are neat i guess.

11/7/2026
Ring Nebula
Ring Nebula

decent planetary nebula. iconic and gets very high up at mid-northern latitudes.

11/7/2026
Messier 56
Messier 56

a real let-down.

11/7/2026
Messier 13
Messier 13

very cool object for the northern hemisphere. visible to the eye in good enough conditions. the other two stars it's near make a fun shape with it.

11/7/2026
Delphinus
Delphinus

dolphin🐬. excellent constellation. i think it deserves M15.

11/7/2026
Rain
Rain

incensed.

11/7/2026
Sirius
Sirius

a little tricky for me to see so far north but the horizon proximity makes it flicker a lot which is very neat. it gets 5 stars for being the brightest.

11/7/2026
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri

our closest star (system), and it even has exoplanets. i'm not in the southern hemisphere and can't see this star but it's cool in principle.

11/7/2026
Pluto
Pluto

i like the tidal locking with charon. interesting looking surface and also a kuiper belt icon.

11/7/2026
Galilean moons
Galilean moons

the resonance is really neat and io is very fast. you can see these even just with binoculars.

11/7/2026
Asteroid belt
Asteroid belt

it's whatever. at least ceres is there.

11/7/2026
Sun
Sun

i mean, it's better than being a rogue planet?

11/7/2026
Neptune
Neptune

much dimmer than uranus and kind of redundant but it still has its interesting notes, what with triton and its kuiper belt interactions.

11/7/2026
Uranus
Uranus

ice giant. it's okay. it's a bit dim.

11/7/2026
Saturn
Saturn

would otherwise be a worse jupiter but the ring system is very iconic.

11/7/2026
Jupiter
Jupiter

very cool planet. extremely massive, exciting visible storms, very aesthetic, interesting moon system, both very bright and outside of our orbit. i think we should have 10 more of them.

11/7/2026 · 1 comment
Ceres (dwarf planet)
Ceres (dwarf planet)

iconic, overlooked, deserves to be with the other ones honestly. also a very nontrivial fraction of the mass of the entire asteroid belt.

11/7/2026
Moons of Mars
Moons of Mars

nice job finding some rocks on the beach, mars.

11/7/2026
Mars
Mars

it has some things going on but it's a bit small. "overhyped" in my opinion.

11/7/2026
Moon
Moon

the brightness is irritating sometimes but it's a lot cooler than if we didn't have one. i think we deserve more.

11/7/2026
Earth
Earth

really cool planet. lots of interesting surface features and the weather's neat.

11/7/2026
Venus
Venus

very bright, excellent inner planet. much cooler than mercury. my main complaint is maybe that the visible surface is rather featureless.

11/7/2026
Mercury (planet)
Mercury (planet)

mildly interesting in that it's pretty close to the sun, otherwise mediocre. honestly this deserves to be a moon of something or another.

11/7/2026