#astronomy fails

[antoniobiscots]

I thought the sun was a red main sequence star... I remember in my childhood that I was scared the sun was gonna turn into a red supergiant and then supernova (at the time i also acknowledged this was irrational)

But you mean to tell me that I mandela-effected wrong?

Everyone else thinks its a yellow star???

AND WHEN DID IT BECOME CLASSIFIED AS A DWARF? WHITE DWARF?? HELLO??

[marsmarvel02]

In my astronomy class, we did a project on the planets of the solar system. One part of the project was coming up with a hypothetical alien that would live on your group's planet.

Each group member would make their own design (with the features that would help your alien survive on your planet's environment being labeled), the group would vote on which design was the best, and then that design would get added to the group's final presentation.

And OH MY GOD did this turn out hilariously.

For reference, this was my alien design (the blocked-out part is where I wrote my name).

I think I did pretty well, even though I'm not sure why I chose to surround the thing with microscopic rock fragments instead of just putting it in a crevice, and that missing close-parenthesis will forever haunt me.

And this was my partner's alien design.

NOTHING WAS LABELED, he clearly watched too many sci-fi flicks, and my dad thinks it looks like He-Man with a praying mantis head, a pharaoh headdress, and a mankini.

How did the other groups fare, you might ask?

Venus: Two different, but nearly identical, alien angels. (The one on the left won the vote.)

Mars: Two boring aliens

AND

The Snurtle (which won, as it deserves)

Jupiter: The Space Bee

And this thing.

This isn't even an alien, it's a pterosaur.

Also, the Jupiter group didn't put either of their aliens in the final presentation. READ THE DIRECTIONS, PEOPLE

Saturn: Was hilarious, because only one student did a drawing, they didn't label it, it didn't get put in the presentation, and it looked like this

Why is it standing on a solid surface? Saturn is a gas giant!

Uranus: Only one sketch, but at least it looks good this time

This one WAS in the final presentation, but the presentation also had a slide with "Voyager 2" as the title and nothing else written on it.

Neptune:

And there's also this, which won:

Nice atmospheric drawing, but YOU DIDN'T LABEL ANYTHING

And finally "Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects"

This one won.

This one my dad called "a bird with squiggles". (Yes, I know you can't read the text, they uploaded the image like this.)