#1644: Stargazing explain

[A thin panel with Megan as a TV-host is holding her hands up. She is drawn in white on a black background. Behind her is an audience drawn in faint gray lines consisting of Hairy (to the left) and two Cueball-like guys and Ponytail (seen in a rare full face position) to the right of the host. One of the Cueball-like guys is partly hidden behind the host.]

Host: Welcome to stargazing, with your host, me.

Host: I’m a doctor or whatever.

[Same scene as before but in a broader panel, and the host is now holding only one hand up with a finger pointing up. The audience is the same four people, but now Hairy has moved further to the left in the panel to make room for a Megan-like woman also to the left of the host.]

Host: I’m not gonna waste your time on the shitty stars.

Host: Just the good stuff.

Host: Honestly half of ’em just look like dots.

[A frame-less drawing with a zoom out showing the group of six people in black silhouette on a white background. Part of the ground beneath them is shown as a black pool. The host is pointing up with one hand. The people have been rearranged, so left of the host is now a Cueball-like guy and a Megan-like woman, and to the right is the other Cueball-like guy, then Ponytail (seen from the side as usual) and Hairy. All are looking up following the host’s directions.]

Host: This is Sirius. It’s the brightest star in our sky so it’s in charge.

Host: It’s really two stars but one of them is barely even trying.

Host: This is Andromeda, it’s too big to think about, so let’s not.

[Zoom in of the host’s upper body, again drawn in white on a black background. She is looking right gesturing with one arm raised, and the other still pointing up with a finger stretched out. Her audience is no longer shown.]

Host: That red stars is Betelgeuse. It’s gonna explode someday.

Host: Can’t happen soon enough, as far as I’m concerned. I-

Host: Holy shit did you see that meteor!?!

Host: Space is awesome!

[Same scene as the previous panel, but the host has turned towards left looking at someone in the audience (not shown) who speaks off-screen. She has taken both her hands down for the first time.]

Off-screen voice: Are you sure you’re an astronomer?

Host: People keep asking that, so I finally tried to look that word up in a dictionary, and wow is that book ever boring. No thank you.

Off-screen voice: But-

Host: Space!