Random Thursday

Time to learn more fun facts about space from Shane Carley in True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t!

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Some scientists believe in the multiverse. The idea that there are more universes out there has gotten popular over the years.

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When two galaxies collide they form a single, larger galaxy over the course of millions of years.

Whoa. Who would've thought it took that long.

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Some people believe that Russians created the first artificial wormhole in the 1990s, but that's false. Scientists aren't sure whether wormholes can actually exist and they remain just a theory as of now.

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We are still experiencing the gravitational pull from other stars that have since gone supernova. Just about everything in the observable universe interacts with us in a gravitational way and many of those stars have long since burned out.

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Planet Gliese 436 b is a planet that burns really hot. Though there is ice on its surface there is so much pressure under it that it does not evaporate.

Whoa.