Readers' Choice: The Weirdest Thing in Space Is ...

[On the Road]

You can't vote any more (it's old), but I like it as a summary of space news from the last few years:

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Readers' Choice: The Weirdest Thing in Space Is ...

Space is full of strange and often poorly understood things, from all-consuming black holes to exploding stars, from objects so dense a teaspoonful weighs a billion tons to empty "space" that may not be empty after all:

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01. Nothing                          25.4%
02. The Accelerating Universe        12.8%
03. Our Milky Way's Black Hole        6.4%
04. Hypernovae                        4.9%
05. Asteroid Companions               4.4%
06. The Sun's Hot Atmosphere          3.4%
07. Electrostatic Levitation          3.3%
08. High-Energy Cosmic Rays           3.3%
09. Neutron Stars                     2.6% 
10. Brown Dwarfs                     33.4%

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_weird.html

Note: Each of the 10 responses links to a story.

[trotsky]

1. Why didn't dark matter make this list?

:shrug:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Or dark energy, for that matter?

Or those scary rings around Uranus?!?!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Maybe you have scary rings around Ur anus

but just speak for yerself, huh?

[On the Road]

3. Good Question --

I didn't see a list of possible answers -- I assume there must have been more than ten possible answers to come up with the top ten.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. 11. Reagan's brain