I think we all agree that space is completely crazy place. And exactly as close and understandable to us as distant and unimaginable. You might think that the landscape on a planet with two suns is the same as somewhere outside the Moscow Ring Road, but this merit of science fiction writers. In fact, in space there are things and more weird. Let’s look at them.
Falling stars
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I think everyone knows that stars do not fall – these are just meteors burn out at the entrance to the atmosphere. But what many do not know is of the fact that really shooting stars also exist, and they are called moving. These are big balls of hot gas racing through space at a speed of millions of kilometers per hour.
When the binary system of stars is absorbed by a supermassive black a hole in the center of the galaxy, one of the two partners is swallowed, and the other is discarded at high speed. Imagine how a huge ball of gas, four times the size of our Sun, rushing with great speed.
Infernal planet
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Gliese 581 is simply hellish hell. Seriously. Planet with all its naturally seeks to kill you. But despite this, scientists found that this hell might be the most likely candidate for future colonization. Planet revolves around red a dwarf many times smaller than our Sun, whose luminosity only 1.3% of our luminary. The planet is much closer to our star than we to our own. Because of this, she is in locked tide state: one side of the planet is always facing the star, while the other looks into space. Like our moon.
Tidal blocking has led to interesting features. If you come out on the side of the planet facing the sun, you will surely melt like a snowman. On the other side of the planet, you are definitely freeze instantly. However, in the “twilight zone” between the two extremes can theoretically live.
Life on Gliese 581, if any, has its own difficulties. A star revolves around a red dwarf, which means the presence of red sky above the planet, thanks to the lower frequencies of the visible spectrum. Existing hell. Photosynthetic elements will have to get used to the constant bombardment of infrared radiation that will stain them in deep black. No salad will look appetizing on such a planet.
Castor System
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If one or even two suns is not enough for you, look at the system Castor. Being one of the two brightest points of the Gemini constellation in our night sky, this system is still brighter than its partner. The thing is that the Castor system is not one, not two, but all six stars, orbiting a common center of mass. Three binary star systems rotate one around the other – two hot and bright stars of type A and four red M-type dwarfs. All together, these six stars give out in 52.4 times greater luminosity than our Sun.
Space raspberries and space rum
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Over the past few years, scientists have been studying a dust cloud in the center our Milky Way. If God is somewhere, then he has good imagination: this dust cloud called Sagittarius B2 smells rum, and it tastes like raspberries.
This gas cloud is composed mostly of ethyl formate, which gives raspberries its taste, and rum its distinctive smell. A giant cloud contains billions, billions and again billions of this substance – and it would be wonderful if it weren’t impregnated with particles of propyl cyanide. Creation and distribution of these complex molecules remains a mystery to scientists, therefore the intergalactic restaurant will remain closed for now.
Burning Ice Planet
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Remember Gliese? This “Adish” that we visited earlier? Let’s go back to the same solar system. Like one killer there were few planets. Gliese supports a planet made almost entirely made of ice – with a temperature of 439 degrees Celsius. Gliese436 b is a burning cube of ice. The only reason for by which this ice remains hard – a gigantic amount of water, present on the planet. Gravity pulls it all together towards the core, compressing water molecules so tightly that they don’t may evaporate.
Diamond planet
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This planet will adorn the neck of any girl, and maybe even some Bill Gates. 55 Cancri e – made entirely from crystalline diamond – would cost 26.9 nonillion dollars. Probably, even the Sultan of Brunei dreams of such at night.
The giant diamond planet was once part of a binary star system until her partner began to devour her. However star I couldn’t take my carbon core with me, and carbon just turned into a diamond under the influence of heat and a giant pressure – with a surface temperature of 1648 degrees Celsius The conditions were almost perfect.
One third of the planet’s mass is pure diamond. While the earth is covered water and replete with oxygen, this planet is made of graphite, diamond and several silicates. Huge gem in two times larger than Earth and eight times heavier, which ranks it as “super-earths.”
Himiko Cloud
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If somewhere there is an object that can show us the origins pristine galaxy, then this is it. Himiko Cloud – The Most a massive object from all found in the early Universe, and it dates from just 800 million years after the Big Bang. The Himiko Cloud amazes scientists with its gigantic size, about half the size of the Milky Way.
Himiko refers to the so-called era of reionization, or period 200 million to one billion years after the Big Bang – and this is the first glimpse of the early formation of galaxies that scientists managed to watch. It was previously assumed that the Himiko cloud could be one big galaxy with a mass of about 40 billion from solar, however, according to recent data, in the cloud, Himiko can there are three galaxies at once, and relatively young ones.
The largest water reservoir in the universe
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Twelve billion light-years from us, in the heart of a quasar, is the largest water reservoir in the universe. In him contains about 140 trillion times more water than earth oceans. Water, unfortunately, takes the form of a massive cloud of gas several hundred light-years in diameter. It is located next to a colossal black hole in the heart of a quasar, and the hole, in turn, two hundred billion times larger than our sun and at the same time constantly spews energy equivalent to 1000 trillion suns. Well this is for you to roughly represent the scale local brew.
The strongest electric current in the universe
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Just a couple of years ago, scientists came across an electric current cosmic scales: 10 ^ 18 amperes, or about one trillion lightning bolts. Lightning is believed to be born in a huge black hole in the center of the galaxy, the core of which is supposedly located “powerful space jet.” Apparently, a powerful magnetic field a black hole allows her to fire these lightning through dust and gas at distance of more than 150 thousand light years. And if you think that our galaxy is large – one such lightning is one and a half times its size in size.
Huge group of quasars
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Perhaps the Himiko cloud is large enough – half as much of our galaxy. What about a structure that is so huge that breaks the traditional principles and laws of modern astronomy? This structure – A huge group of quasars (LQG).
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is only a hundred thousand meters across light years. Think about it: if something happens at one end galaxies, it will take a hundred thousand years until the light reaches the opposite end. When we observe an event at the other end galaxies, that means the event happened when human the genus has just begun to take shape. Well now take this distance and multiply it by forty thousand.
A huge group of quasars across is 4 billion light years. A cluster of seventy-four quasars breaks the rules of standard astrophysics, since the maximum size any space structure can be only 1.2 billion light years across.
Scientists have absolutely no idea how this gigantic structure formed, as they previously knew clusters are only one hundred million light-years across. The giant structure doesn’t give a damn about physical laws, who say that when viewed from afar, the universe looks relatively homogeneous.
And in November 2013, an even more severe structure was opened. Universe — The Great Wall of Hercules — The Northern Crown. Her size is more than 10 billion light years.
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