Astronomers who calculated the average color of all the light emitted by the two hundred thousand galaxies in the observable universe discovered that the cosmos is not the…

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Astronomers who calculated the average color of all the light emitted by the two hundred thousand galaxies in the observable universe discovered that the cosmos is not the majestic sparkling black we see at night, but rather a remarkably boring shade of off-white officially named cosmic latte; realizing that the combined majesty of billions of exploding stars, ancient quasars, and infinite nebulas averages out to the exact same dull beige color as a corporate waiting room is perhaps the most deeply cynical and hilarious joke the universe could ever possibly play on human imagination

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Pluto's heart is a glacier, not just a shape

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Could a false vacuum erase the universe

Jupiter is so massive that it does not actually orbit the sun in a traditional sense, rather, the sun and Jupiter both orbit a shared center of mass located just outside the surface of our star.

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