Very Interesting Facts About the Universe (25 pics)

Some interesting stuff here

That electric lamp in picture 9 is a poor representation, otherwise, some interesting info.

Where's Sheldon when you need him? :07:

Here comes the nerdiness:

So many errors in this list, and reposting it all over the internet won't make them any less erroneous. Examples:

1a. It may be the most massive object in the universe, but how can it be one of the largest if it's only half the size of the Milky Way, a rather middling sized galaxy?
1b. That's not even a picture of the Himiko Cloud. It's the Carina Nebula.

2. At most, 55 Cancri e is only 1/3 diamond, and that is mostly speculation.

4. Gravity compresses the water into hot ice. "Molecules pulling together" is just silly.

8. Hypervelocity stars moving at just 1 trillion miles per hour would be moving faster than the speed of light. The fastest observed stars move at less than 10 million miles per hour, or 1/100th of a trillion miles per hour.

10a. Why compare Himiki, "supposedly one of the largest objects in the known universe," with something that is 80,000 times larger? Did the author not remember what they wrote just 9 items earlier?
10b. "Breaks some standard laws of physics" is probably the silliest statement in the list. It is a logical impossibility. The only thing that can be broken is the author's understanding of what the laws of physics even are (hint: traffic laws tell drivers how to behave, but how objects behave tells us what the physical laws are.)

Not many people believe this, and that is also a 'Theory', 'Thumbsuck' and an 'assumption.'

Nice 'pics' though.

"Back To The Future" :61:
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Even if Maxid has pointed out some stuff, there is even more.

#17 The Pillars of Creation: It cannot be a 'nursery for stars hundreds of millions light years across' when the longest pillar is only four light years in length.

#8 Hypervelocity stars cannot travel faster than the speed of light. The fastest observed (of what I could find) is traveling about 1.9 million miles per hour. That's a mere 0.28% of the speed of light.