The Unknown Universe
Mr_Incognito
Published
10/06/2013
Here is some things you may or may not have known existed about space.
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A Water Reservoir-With 140 trillion times the amount of water held in the Earths oceans, this cloud of H2O gas is over 12 billion light years away near a black hole. -
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The Diamond Planet-55 Cancri e is an entire planet made out of diamond. -
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The Planet of Burning Ice-Although its 439 degrees celcius on Gliese 436 b, its watery surface doesnt evaporate. Instead, the molecules pull together to form something known as hot ice. -
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Sagittarius B2-Consisting of ethyl formate, this is the same gas that gives raspberries their taste and rum its smell. -
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Castor System-With six stars orbiting around a central mass, this system is over 54 times as bright as our sun. -
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Gliese 581 c-Remember the planet of burning ice? Well this one is its neighbor and scientists say that it is the most likely candidate for future colonization. It doesnt spin so the bright side is super hot and the dark side is freezing cold but in between there is a small strip of temperate territory. -
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Hypervelocity Stars-Yes, there are actually stars pummeling through space at trillions of miles per hour. -
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A Massive Electric Current-Emanating from a nearby black hole, this current is over 1.5 times the size of the Milky Way. -
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Himiko Cloud-Supposedly one of the largest objects in the known universe, its over half the size of the Milky Way. -
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Large Quasar Group-Although Himiki is huge, the LGQ is ever bigger. Its forty thousand times larger than our galaxy and even breaks some standard laws of physics. -
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Gravitational Lensing-What you are looking at is actually a blue star directly behind a yellow star. Light is just being bent so the blue star gets warped. -
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The Trifid Nebula bares a resemblance to a unicorn. -
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Mickey Mouse-And that would be the mouse carved into the side of Mercury. -
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A Cold Star-Although were used to stars being blazing hot, scientists recently found a star that is only 89 degrees fahrenheit. -
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VY Canis Majoris-A Star 1,500 Times The Size Of The Sun. -
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New Found Blob-At 200 million light years across this blob from the other side of the universe gives the Large Quasar Group a run for its money. -
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Pillars of Creation-Its basically a huge nursery for stars thats hundreds of millions of light years across. -
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Magnetars-Spinning out of control these stars could destroy your credit card with their magnetic field from hundreds of millions of miles aways. -
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Neutrinos-If you were to hold up a dime for a second, that would be long enough for about 150 billion tiny, massless neutrinos to go plummeting through it. -
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Dark Matter-If you piled up all the visible universe it would account for only 5 of the total mass. At least 27 more consists of invisible dark matter -
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Dark Energy-To really make things interesting, the remaining 68 is something known as dark energy, and whatever it is its pushing the universe apart at top speed. -
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Planets-Although it may sound weird because we live on one, there is currently no theory that can fully explain how a bunch of gas and dust surrounding a star comes together to form a planet, especially a rocky one. -
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Gravity-The weakest and most pervasive force in the universe still has scientists guessing as to its origin. -
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Black Hole-Beyond a black holes event horizon, or gravitational border, nothing can escape. Not light, not matter, nothing. -
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White Holes-Supposedly the opposite of black holes, they only exist in theory. The matter goes in one end and out the other. Some say they could be the key to crazy things like time travel.
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