>>17089011
because space pictures are pretty.
only weirdos like formulas and test tubes

>>17089011
because its usually women lusting over galatic bbc

>>17089011
astronomy is very relatable to even a child normie because the Sun and the Moon are easily visible, the moon even in high detail with the unaided eye, but they have somewhat intangible properties due to being so far away (it’s not uncommon for a child to say something along the lines of “the moon is following me”). So it strikes a very primal chord in human consciousness, which is why many early religions worshipped the sun and the moon and various other astronomical things.

The things that are easily tangible like rocks and plants and so forth never had as much of a profound mystery surrounding them since they are very tangible. But you even see things that are slightly more intangible, like flames and the reflections in crystal balls, appealing more to some human instinct, appearing in things like Zoroastrianism or medieval scrying.

Normies typically don’t even have the capacity to comprehend those things that are invisible, and then it is much less common for them to get infatuated by them. Most normies hear the word “Higgs boson” and their imagination is a blank slate, or they envision something completely different from what a trained physicist would envision. Even things as mundane as microchips, digital signals over radio airwaves, or even the electricity in their outlets—they either have a blank mental picture and shrug it off as akin to magic, or else they often arrive at very nonscientific mental pictures, without at least some technical training

but for astro stuff, it immediately relates to people’s everyday experience with seeing the sun and the moon

>>17089318
@grok summarize please

because astronomy is just deifying nature and not actually related to science.