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11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks - Crazy as a Bag of Hammers - Humour, Jokes and fun stuff. The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space. #3.

The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space

A Cold Star Here's the very first lesson you learned about the cosmos: The sun is hot. Even before you knew what the sun was, or what a star was made of, you knew that. When you get into the science of it, you realize that you were even more right than you thought: The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and several thousand times hotter than that at the core. So, yeah, the one thing we know about stars is that you don't ever want to try to land on one, unless you want to instantly burst into flame.

Random cool & funny pictures. JPG Dump. The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS) After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain.

The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)

As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong. In fact, we'll bet you even heard some or all of these brain myths in school at some point ...