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55 Cancri e, a super-Earth eight times heavier than Earth, orbits its star in just 17 hours. With temperatures soaring to 2,400°C, its interior may consist largely of diamond, thanks to its carbon-rich composition and extreme pressures.
Vega, one of the brightest stars, spins so rapidly that it’s egg-shaped rather than spherical. It completes a rotation in just 12.5 hours, unlike the Sun’s slower rotation, making it a standout object in the night sky.
NGC 6791, a star cluster 13,300 light-years away, challenges astronomers by containing both old and metal-rich stars. Its unique properties blur the lines between globular and open clusters, creating a new class of star clusters.
Void regions in space, like the Eridanus supervoid, contain far less matter than the universe’s average. These massive empty spaces span millions of light-years and could be responsible for the cold spots seen in cosmic microwave background radiation.
Fermi Bubbles are massive gamma-ray structures extending 25,000 light-years above and below the Milky Way’s center. Their origin remains a mystery, but they may have been created by energy released from the galaxy’s supermassive black hole.
Blood Falls in Antarctica gets its crimson hue from iron-rich brine that seeps from the Taylor Glacier. The brine oxidizes as it contacts air, creating a rusty, blood-like appearance. Beneath the glacier, 17 species of microbes thrive in these extreme conditions.
The black hole merger detected as GW150914 produced gravitational waves stretching space-time. In the final milliseconds before the collision, the black holes radiated more energy than all the stars in the observable universe combined.
On exoplanet HD 189733b, temperatures reach 1,000°C, causing silicate particles to condense and form glass. Fierce winds exceeding 7,000 km/h send glass particles hurtling horizontally, making this planet a deadly place with horizontal glass rain.
A new study suggests Earth’s early years may have hosted temporary polar moons. These “circumbinary particles” were stable due to the Moon’s close proximity after the Theia impact, adding complexity to Earth-Moon system formation.