APM 08279 5255 Quasar Contains 100 Trillion Times More Water Than All of Earth's Oceans Combined

Quasar Quest | Beyond Astrophysics on Instagram: "It was past midnight in Pripyat. The reactor had already exploded. Yet people gathered on a bridge. Families. Teenagers. Children. They watched the glow in the sky like it was a festival. What they didn’t know was that the colors weren’t fire. They were ionized air a sign of intense radiation tearing through the atmosphere. Radioactive particles were already falling like ash. Invisible. Odorless. Silent. There were no alarms. No evacuation orders