Quasars Can Shine Like Trillions of Suns

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Blasting out energy equal to trillions of suns, quasars are the most wildly destructive engines in the known universe. Sitting at the furious heart of ancient galaxies, these cosmic blowtorches rip apart space-time and fling matter outward at near light-speed. Standing at the edge of one would instantly dissolve you into pure, screaming energy!

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Every single ounce of gold on Earth was forged billions of years ago in the violent, catastrophic collision of dead neutron stars deep in outer space.

Ceres may hold more freshwater than Earth

When the sun unleashes millions of bomb blasts worth of energy

White dwarfs are the incredibly dense remnants of dead stars

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