The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space
Jacopo della Quercia , Mike Cooney October 18, 2011 1,002,923 views
It’s actually really easy to think of space as boring. The planets in our own solar system all seem to be empty rocks or balls of gas, and you find a whole lot of nothing before you get to the next star. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s most creative minds can’t get past populating the place with planets that look a whole lot like Earth (and specifically, parts of California) featuring monsters, rapey aliens or Muppets.
But real space is far, far stranger. You just have to know where to look to find things like …
#6. A Planet Made of Diamond
Science fiction writers have this annoying thing they do where they can only think of like five different types of planets. You know, there’s the ice planets (like Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back) and the forest planets (like in Avatar), desert planets, lava planets, etc.
But scientists have studied almost 700 real planets outside the solar system, and some of them are downright gaudy. Case in point: PSR J1719-1438 b. Planet Fancy isn’t having any of that rocky gassy stuff. Because it’s straight up made of diamond:
Via Inewp.com
It’s a wedding gem worthy of Jesus or the Sultan of Dubai.
How Is This Even Possible?
The universe’s biggest showoff actually used to be a star, and sometimes the debris that’s left over after the star dies starts a second career as a planet. In this case, Blingworld started off life as one of two parts of a binary star. The larger twin made like a bomb and supernova-ed. What was left behind was a pulsating star, or pulsar, and a white dwarf. The dwarf stabilized just far enough away from its former brother to lose matter to the bully but to keep its carbon core.
Via Spaceflightnow.com
What a dick!
Carbon is just a shitload of heat and pressure away from becoming a diamond. On Earth, that happens underground and creates little shiny bits for people to dig up and cram into their jewelry. But in this particular spot in space, the conditions were just right for the entire interior of that former star to harden, crystallize and turn into a planet-sized gem.
Damn it, mankind’s single goal should now be to assemble a mission to tow this bastard back to Earth. There’s one pawn shop owner who’s going to be in for a big fucking surprise.
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“Yeah, that’s cute. Get your telescope and come with me.”
#5. A Gigantic Rain Cloud
Here’s another thing you never see in space movies: water. The Millennium Falcon doesn’t have windshield wipers. The Enterprise’s huge display screen doesn’t get fogged up because they flew through a space cloud. If you saw that in a sci-fi movie (with the pilot all “Damn, I can’t see due to all of this space rain!”), you’d laugh your ass off. “Have these people even been to space?”
But, guess what: Scientists have found a big-ass pool of water just floating out there in the cosmos. This massive reservoir of floating space water vapor is in fact the biggest collection of water in the universe that we know of.
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With the smallest concentration of child urine.
And when we say “big” we’re not talking Pacific Ocean big. We’re talking 100,000 times larger than the sun big. This is a vapor cloud so large it holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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And you know what that means … space sharks.
How Is This Even Possible?
As with everything else on this list, scientists are doing a lot of shrugging and guesstimating at what we’re actually looking at. After all, the water cloud is 10 billion light-years away, so it’s not like the next generation of astronauts are going to be packing their swimming trunks or anything. But they think that what’s going on is that there’s this massive black hole that’s chomping down on everything around it. Instead of spewing out energy like a normal black hole would, the black hole is excreting water vapor. Somehow. They’re still figuring it out.
Basically, picture the big black spot as a gaping mouth and the ring of water around as drool, and you get the idea:
Via Universetoday.com
And all like, “Duuuuhhhh,” because black holes are stupid.
Or, if that image is disturbing, pretend the big black hole in the center is a space water park and the gassy ring around it is the universe’s most kickass lazy river.
OK, so you could totally wind up flying your spaceship through a rain cloud. But it’s not like flying through a thunderstorm. After all, there’s no lightning in space. Right?
#4. Lightning!
Wrong!
Scientists have known for a while that lightning isn’t unique to Earth. They’ve observed lightning on Mars and Saturn. What they didn’t know is that lightning could occur in the middle of goddamn space, with a force equal to a trillion lightning bolts, or to use the proper scientific terms, 50 million fucktons of electricity.
Via Newscientist.com
Yeah, where’s your kite now, Benjamin?
That insane electrical current was discovered near galaxy 3C303. But is this huge electrical current serving as an outlet for God to plug in his blow dryer? No, it’s not doing anything that cool … it’s just firing a massive jet of electrified matter 150,000 light-years into outer space.
OK, so maybe referring to this as a lightning storm was underplaying it a bit. Instead, try imagining a single bolt of lightning 50 percent longer than the entire Milky Way galaxy.
Add a skull and the silhouette of a graveyard and you have yourself an ’80s metal album cover.
How Is This Even Possible?
Like most cool things in space, this electrical current is caused by a black hole, the prima donna of the universe. Astronomers speculate that a giant black hole in the center of 3C303 has an unusually strong magnetic field, which in turn generates a ridiculous amount of electricity.
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Which in turn makes a wicked T-shirt design.
In fact, it’s the biggest burst of electrical current ever detected in the universe. Maybe that’s how we were able to pick it up from two billion freaking light-years away.
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Our space is cool but you dont have to use curse words in your articles ,do you? It doesn’t make the info any better. Maybe next time you can leave off the foul language…it makes you seem a little ignorant…sorry.
Let’s not forget that earth is in ‘space’ .
Haha. Space-whales! So this is where Futurama got this multi dimensional idea from.
who is to decide what proper etiquette words is allowed? maybe I can write the naughty words in another language you dont understand, is that okay sir?
I agree with oladyinashu. The foul language is an earmark of someone lacking in imagination, intelligence and moral character.
Who knows the giant water cloud could be another galaxy or non-sun solar system. It could be inhabited by water dwelling non-sentient and sentient life forms.
Hey anonymous on Thursday at 3:38, why are you so angry or is it you were just dropped on your head when young?
“I agree with oladyinashu. The foul language is an earmark of someone lacking in imagination, intelligence and moral character.”
Go read ur bible some more, it says thou shalst not judge somewhere in there.
For those of us who are adults , I find your posting rather informative and intertaining . For those that are so offended go back and watch “Sponge Bob ” . I find that when individuals , who have to criticize and judge everything or any one they encounter , or either narrow or closed minded . Instead of judging the author on the articles merits , they must attack the author . Exposing that they have little understanding of the subject matter or have little knowledge to contribute to the subjet . As a Christian , to my fellow Christians : Let those without …………………… You fill in the blank!
I have found a diamond meteorite, about the size of a golf ball. To think, I could be holding a piece of a sun.
Fascinating story but what are the first three mind-blowing things discovered in space you do not list them what are the three to one mind-blowing things I like to know.
We live in an Electric Universe !
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This is very important, I just want all people on earth to understand that If you know “Good and Evil” you need to be baptized in water. If you don’t baptized in water, when we change and get a glorified body you can’t change. The water seperate us from the devil and his angels, they can’t baptized in water because they are spirit. When we change they can’t change because they have not baptized water like us. If you don’t baptized in water you and devil and his angels will be the same. They can’t change either God don’t want them to follow us to the New Jerusalem. Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything in the Bible especially the book of Revelation. God want to hide a lots of the writing in the Bible from “HaSatan” which is the devil. The preaching and Teaching at Seventh Day Advent Church is write on right track, its the best church so for to become a member. But I can’t force people or tell them what to do, I can only tell the truth. The devil can duplicate a lots of the things God does in the spirit but he can’t baptized in water. Thats why God send Jesus on earth to come and help us. God is very sad to leave lots of people behind and lets them go to hell. God has send me as a woman, because women likes to explain things in details more than men. The spirit I have is too strong for my mind, but God is helping me. Trust me God opened my ears and I heard the devil weeping, if the devil himself is weeping then you know things are going to get very very terrible soon. God is hiding his face from us because of the devil. When we go to the New Jerusalem we shall see God and Jesus and all the beautiful angels of God.
When Jesus told the guy next to his right hand on the cross, tonight you shall be with me in paradise, Jesus was still alive. Right after the Temple in Jerusalem was distroy the same day Jesus was crusified. If you don’t baptized in water, you can’t go to the New Jerusalem, trust me. All the people who have died and did not baptized in water they have loss. When Jesus return, everything will be like automatic God will be controlling our body. We won’t have authority over our body. Your body will feel like you’re on a roller costa ride, you can’t help your self only God can help you.
I’m just guessing, maybe God don’t want the spirit of HaSatan to hide inside somebody and follow us to the New Jerusalem. I may be wrong about this statement because God is in charge of the prophesies. Maybe thats why you need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, if the Spirit of God does not dwell inside you, you can’t change and get a glorified body. Only 1/3 of the rightious souls who were alive on July 1st 2009 were able to go through the Judgement and go to the New Jerusalem. 2/3 of the people who were alive on July 1st 2009 did not have the spirit of God dwelling inside them. God left them behind, but its a lots of people who were left behind so God is sad, but he does not want the devil and his angel to follow us either. We can’t afford to have another fight in heaven again like they had before God created Adam and Eve. God said Adam and Eve are not going to the New Jerusalem. God can ignore us and throw all of us in hell but he’s a person like us. He has feeling and conscience like us. He does not want to go to and New Jerusalem and enjoy himself with only a few people. That’s why he want to give people this great opportunity to repent and be save.
God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are all sad they are leaving lots of people behind. The devil has been attacking me for many years trying to kill and distroy me. God has a lots of Doves circling around my head in the spirit. I think is angels of God or the Holy Spirit else I would have been dead by now. God is helping me 24/7 God want me to do the best I can to save as many people as we can before we leave the rest behind. If you don’t take advantage of my message you’ll miss the beautiful city. God wish lots of people will come there but he can’t force them.
God said when the Sun, Moon, Earth is lined up, its called total Landscaping not Total eclipse or what ever they call it. On June 14/15 when we had the eclipse, I saw the shadow of the New Jerusalem in the middle. God is trying to hide it from HaSatan, that’s why he show it to me very quick so the devil wont see it. God said the New Jerusalem is closer to earth now than before. Trust me God is so nice and he love all the people on Earth but the devil is making him angry. Did you all see how the devil entered the Romans and all the bad people to distroy Jesus. If we build the temple in Jerusalem God will not dwell there. God has already said in the Bible he does not dwell in temple made with human hands. So when the Jews build the temple in Jerusalem the devil will act like God and dwell there. God will not dwell in a temple made with human hands.
If you hear this message Just lift up your hands and thank God you’re still alive. Those who have died shall not hear this message and repent and receive Jesus and get baptized in water. God will surely send all those who have died and did not go to the New Jerusalem on July 1 2009 to the middle of the Sun which is hell. God want to save lots of people but always remember Salvation is a choice.
I pray that anybody who will read this shall repent and get save.
God Richly Bless you, keep you, and have his face shine on you Amen!!
Your god is rather impotent in your eyes and belief apparently; your god is unable to forgive on his own, so has to send someone else to pardon our sin? He is incapable of compassion on his own? How is this a god of love and infinite power? Apparently in your mind and religious belief you wholeheartedly preach the infinite ineptitude of your god, (..who over and over in your ranting religion..) can’t create a perfect being, and he can’t control the processes in our minds to stay pure and to foster only love within our hearts?!?!
In your belief: Your god created faulty humans; then blamed us for our corruption because your god was inept at his ability to create a good and noble creature, thus sentencing us to eternal damnation, because he couldn’t get creation right, even after several attempts.?.?
How is this a god of infinite love? Of infinite passion? Of infinite power?
You believe your god is insignificant, and ignorant as well. Apparently you do.!.! You preach that he is bordering on evil as well; you say your god created beings of light and love and beauty and called them angels. Your god created powerful beings who turned to evil as a CHOICE… One of which became the ultimate evil in the universe?!?!
Your religion says “we are born in sin.” so your religion sends infants who die; to hell for eternity?!?! Your religion is twisted and full of lies. You can’t say the bible if the ultimate word of god and then go and change the meaning of passages to suit your “politically correct” belief that he couldn’t possibly have meant that… He asked for a blood sacrifice of a child, of Issacs son.!.! And Issac didn’t even think twice about obeying an order to kill a child.!.! It doesn’t matter the outcome, your god demanded a child sacrifice, now that is evil incarnate.
I believe you have been deceived by Satan, and it is satan whom you have been worshiping for 20 centuries. No rightfully loving god of creation could be so cruel, ignorant, devious, and deceitful and still be thought of as a being of pure good and love.!.! Open your eyes, it is you who have been deceived, it is you who have demeaned the power of GOD, it is you who believes your god is incompetent, and impotent, it is preached to the masses daily.!.!
You honestly believe your god in his infinite power and love, couldn’t have created a human being without a sin nature? He created faulty beings, human so evil towards other humans like Hitler, Mao, Mayan death cults, the list could go on for a long long time.?.? This is your god? This is evil! There is nothing good or loving in anything your god does.
He hasn’t the power, compassion or conviction to accept that what he created was his fault, not ours, we are not more powerful than god, how could we alter gods handiwork.?.? Our nature is as it is by design, it says so in the bible, and if we were created by a loving compassionate god, why are we as we are?!?! This is where you throw out the “it is because he gave is free will to choose right from wrong.” if it so we have free will, why is there eternal damnation if we choose the other path? Doesn’t sound so free to me. Sounds very coercive and deceptive, as well and duplicitous, telling us one thing and then punishing us with eternal torture knowing that god gave us that choice. So a loving god set before us a path leading to eternal torture.?.? How is that not pure evil? Acording to the bible (..the ineffable word of god..) nothing can be created other than by god. So cannibalism, murder, cancer, mental disorders, torture, war… are all created by your god… it is written in “gods own handwriting.”
My GOD is the creator of all. He set the universe within a framework of laws, He created lesser beings to tend to the smaller projects, who created yet smaller beings, who created yet smaller beings. Yet all these beings have one thing in common, they are all creators working within the framework set by GOD. We and They can not work outside this framework of creation. The CREATOR set laws or birth and growth, deterioration and death. Within the framework of that, there are infinite possibilities to accomplish that (..good or neutral or evil..) but it all follows the framework and law of GOD.
We are created in GODs image… Does GOD have a nose? A pancreas? Excrament? Nope, so what image are we created in?!?!?! We are created in the image of a creator; a sentient creative intelligence. GOD prefers creation of beneficial results, but the framework must also have destructive results, otherwise there is stagnation and overcrowding, things must be destroyed, they have a lifespan as well and all of creation how that lifespan plays out is up to us as co-creators of this world and universe.
Well spoken, Master A.
It appears to me that you use logic and critical thinking, as the Creator intended.
Seems to me wars can be started over ones beliefs… So we need to be as our governments are all over the earth? Isn’t that what we are trying to graduate to… Peace.
Wow, makes ya feel quite small and insignificant after looking at all those cool space images from parts beyond our own imaginations…Thus, let it be noted: that we as a new species have only uncovered a tiny fraction of what’s really out there..
There’s many mysteries closely associated with this marvelous galaxy that we find ourselves part of today…
Only a fool would say that we are still all alone when the evidence of this most intelligent design, is right in front of us all…
“Master Ascension” is sadly confused and ignorant
of the most basic Christian tenets.
Where’s your kite now, Benjamin? Hahaha
Oh contrare Snowball. I am fully versed in the tenets of Christianity. I am a religious historian and an ordained minister. I’ve read the histories, and I’ve read the bible texts, all of them, I’ve read the rabbinical texts and histories… The “church” has lied to the Christians. The truth is out there, but as Jesus said “Truth is before you, but you need the eyes to see it.” Jesus is a divinely sent messenger of that I have no doubt, but there were others sent to other cultures as well.
Jesus is not god. Period.
GOD is distinct, eternal. creative.
Jesus is not distinct as far as messengers of god go… He is not eternal, he had a beginning, had an end, and had re-beginning, ect. He did not create, unless he did beget children with Mary Magdaline.
The Christian religion is just that. You worship Christ. You do not worship the GOD of creation. You worship a door to salvation of a soul you think is sinful. The “church” has twisted the message so dynamically; that rarely is there a glimpse of the truth still to be found within the bible of our purpose and power set by GODS Own Creative Hand.
Here is a question:
If Jesus is the “Son of God” then shouldn’t his own writings be included in the Bible? There is an Epistle of Jesus, what is written in it that is so controversial to the “Church Establishment” that it is locked away never to be read by the followers?!?! It is no longer an accepted canonical writing, because it “Would confuse the congregations.” Yes it would, because it states plainly that he was just a man sent as a messenger, and not the Messiah.
The signs of the messiah are clearly laid out in the bible… Jesus fills none of the messianic signs. Jesus’s own words are “I have not been sent to bring peace, but to bring the sword.” the True Messiah spoken of throughout the entire Bible states clearly that he will be a messenger of peace in all things.
I believe you follow the tenets of Christianity to a fault. That is where the trouble lies. GOD the Creator said “TEST ME.” I did, and found Him to be magnificent, boundless, and not beholden to anything, not even the mind of man who twists His story to suit those in power … The Church!!!
Please understand you are not worshiping the Creator when you go to church and praise a man named Jesus for whom all blessings flow… Uh not! It is from GOD the Creator from whom all blessings flow, but that is not in the songs is it? GOD the Creator alone and in full magnificence is in none of the songs sung on Sunday.
Please test what I have said. TEST GOD. with no middle man, ( the church, a pastor, a councilor, or Jesus) just worship the Creator of all things. Live a good and creative life and you will fine infinite blessing from GOD, both on this wonderful world HE CREATED, and beyond.