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If there has ever been any object that has shown us the origins of a primordial galaxy, this is it. The Himiko Cloud is the most massive object ever found in the early universe, and it dates to only 800 million years after the Big Bang. The Himiko Cloud astounds scientists with its sheer size, roughly half that of our Milky Way Galaxy. Himiko belongs to what is known as the “reionization epoch,” or the period from around 200 million to one billion years after the Big Bang, and it’s the first glimpse scientists have managed to get of the early formation of galaxies.
Only a few years ago, scientists stumbled upon an electrical current of cosmic proportions: 10^18 amps, or roughly one trillion lightning bolts. The lightning is thought to originate from an enormous black hole in the center of the galaxy, which has a core that is supposedly a “huge cosmic jet.” Apparently, the black hole’s huge magnetic field allows it to fire up this lightning bolt through gas and dust to a distance of over one hundred and fifty thousand light-years away. And we thought that our galaxy was big, this single lightning bolt is one and a half times the size of it.
Twelve billion light-years away, the universe’s largest water reservoir resides in the heart of a quasar. Containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth’s oceans, and found near the colossal black hole at the center of the quasar, the water, unfortunately, manifests itself in the form of a massive cloud of gas, several hundred light-years in diameter.
This structure, my friends, is the Large Quasar Group. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is only one hundred thousand light-years across. Think about that for a moment; if something happens on the far side of the galaxy, it would take a hundred thousand years for the light to reach the opposite end. That means that when we watch an event take place at the other end of our galaxy, it actually occurred when the human species was just beginning to form. Now, take that length of time, and multiply it by forty thousand. The Large Quasar Group is four billion light-years across. The cluster of seventy-four quasars actually breaks the rules of standard astrophysics, since the maximum size of any cosmic structure should be only 1.2 billion light-years across. Scientists have absolutely no idea how this huge structure formed since they had previously only been aware of other clusters of perhaps several hundred million light-years across.
Do you remember Gliese? That hell-hole of a star that we talked about earlier? We’re heading back to the same solar system for this one. As if one murderous planet wasn't enough, Gliese supports a planet made almost entirely out of ice, that's at 439 degrees Celsius. Gliese 436 b is, quite simply, a burning ice cube. Imagine Hoth from Star Wars, except that it’s on fire. The only reason this ice stays solid is because of the huge amount of water present on the planet; the gravity pulls it all in towards the core, keeping the water molecules so densely packed that they cannot evaporate.
Gliese 581 c wants to kill you. This planet orbits a red dwarf star, many times smaller than our Sun, with a luminosity of only 1.3% of our sun. This means that the planet is far closer to its star than we are to ours. Because of this, it is stuck in a state of tidal locking, meaning that one side of the planet is always facing the star, and one side is always facing away, just like our moon’s relationship with Earth. The tidal locking of the planet alone results in some pretty odd features. Stepping out onto the star-side of the planet would immediately melt your face off, whereas standing on the opposite side of the planet, where there is no sun, would freeze you instantly. However, in between these two extremes is a small belt where life could theoretically exist.
Everyone knows that shooting stars are just meteors entering the atmosphere, right? If you didn’t, congratulations you just failed the fourth grade. What some people don’t know, however, is that real shooting stars exist as well; they’re called hypervelocity stars. These are big, fiery balls of gas rocketing through space at millions of miles per hour. When a binary star system is gobbled down by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, one of the two partners is consumed, while the other is ejected at high speed. Just try to imagine a huge ball of gas, four times the size of our sun, hurtling out from our galaxy at millions of miles per hour.
As if one or two giant, fiery balls of gas weren't enough, here we have the Castor System. As one of the two bright stars from the Gemini constellation in our night sky, it has some serious luminosity. This is because the Castor System isn't one, or two, but six stars, all orbiting around a common central mass. Three binary star systems orbit each other here, with two hot and bright A-type stars being stuck in the system, as well as four M-type red dwarves. Altogether, though, these six stars put out roughly 52.4 times more luminosity than that of our sun.
These are 26 newly discovered sarcophagi of high officials and priests from the 26th dynasty, some 2,500 years old.
Holographic floor projection
They use the same pink dye that is attached to stolen banknotes. This makes the ivory unsellable. The animals are not harmed and it is saving their lives.
The Old Man of the Lake is a 30-foot (9 m) tall tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896.
This GIF just won the Nobel Prize
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If you’re wondering how punctuation can be used to create suspense,
REALLY?
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They are not hackers - they are "undocumented admins."
THE THINGS SOME PEOPLE DO
The Poem: CLICK HERE
Eddie Van Halen RiP (and David Lee Roth in 1978)
Has away with words
DELETES
Part of a return address
IRS
Bit of swearing in church
IDO
Good looking guy
MARKSMAN
5 comments:
B12 is spelled correctly. Synonym. Wrong word, not wrong spelling.
Puzzle Time Answer - Eraser
I lost my virginity to Hopalong Cassidy.
Love those crossword answers to those xword clues. NYT is regularly clever like that.
I lost my virginity WITH Hopalong Cassidy.
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