At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2 - ThreadSky

nsousanis.bsky.social • 21 hours ago

At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

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mrhughshistory.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Amazing! A wonderful marriage of text and image, all very beautifully designed.

nsousanis.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Thank you!

serenissimaj.bsky.social•17 hours ago

😵🧡

nsousanis.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thank you!

emelaarghh.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Infographic as art, and vice versa 😍

donnacarlyle.bsky.social•16 hours ago

🤩👏

nsousanis.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thank you!

acotgreave.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Looking amazing Nick. Do you have any idea of release date for Unflattening 2, yet?

miskaknapek.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Looks excellent - very good work!

julianoakes.bsky.social•18 hours ago

This stunning and informative, love it!

mariswicks.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Wow! This is stunning!

nsousanis.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thanks! Glad to see you here - enjoyed your books with @gtlabsrat.bsky.social! (and need to get some that I’ve not read yet too!)

mariswicks.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Aw thanks!

clarajeffery.bsky.social•15 hours ago

amazing

nsousanis.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Thank you!

justineisinger.bsky.social•12 hours ago

👏👏👏

panicatthedogpark.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Wow ! This is great!

adamwallenta.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Awesome. What book/publisher is this for?

nsousanis.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Again from Harvard! (Unless they fire me for how long this has taken me…)

adamwallenta.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It looks great. Looking forward to reading it.

nsousanis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Thank you!

alvaropons.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Woooooowwwww!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

nsousanis.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Thanks, Alvaro! I was really pleased…

bhghs.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Beautiful, Nick!

nsousanis.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Thank you!

nsousanis.bsky.social•20 hours ago

As always, I’m trying to walk the line between the poetic potential of a comics page, discussing my larger idea, and getting the science right - so people like @jdunkley.bsky.social @astrokatie.com @jillianscudder.com (whose works I drew on) nod knowingly. It’s ever a good challenge.

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•20 hours ago

That is beautiful & informative both, Nick! Will it be included in your upcoming book? Eagerly waiting fir the sequel to Unflattening...

nsousanis.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Yep - it’s part of my ongoing chapter on origin of the universe…

fiona-webster22.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Cool!

nsousanis.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The spread prior - on the birth of a star! There’s some repetition of content and I tried hard to not do a similar layout, which was a challenge… https://bsky.app/profile/nsousanis.bsky.social/post/3l7jeeglrza2q

nsousanis.bsky.social•15 hours ago

This covers elements generated in a star’s life (particularly a giant star - this is one of the first stars in the universe, pop III). The facing page will take up those elements created in its explosive death. Besides all my reading on it, my physics teaching dad and I spent hours talking on it…

nsousanis.bsky.social•13 hours ago

In the upper strips, I retell the origin of the universe that I’d drawn earlier in the chapter (before i was on this platform) and this sequence on time after the bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, and cosmic filaments that lay the groundwork for galaxies… https://bsky.app/profile/nsousanis.bsky.social/post/3l5pno67mo72q

nsousanis.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Interesting to see comments re infographics - which is not something I see my work as, but this page definitely leans on that- couldn’t figure out how to show certain things without being diagrammatic. I learn a lot from data viz folks and incorporate elements into my work (and teaching).

nsousanis.bsky.social•9 hours ago

And nice to share something that feels joyful. Lots of not that, but good to remember and appreciate the responses…

jonathanstephens.blog•11 hours ago

Absolutely beautiful.

Feels like you'll need a companion guide to show just how much of Real Science Info went into the graphics themselves.

The balance with page spreads, rhythms between wealth of visual & written content—word as image, image as word—works amazingly from an infographic persp.