Space is a strange place if you can imagine it it's likely out there somewhere but the strangest
things are what we actually find scattered through the cosmos from our lemon-shaped moon to
getting a new north star to our milky way hurtling towards a collision with another galaxy
there's never a shortage of real oddities in space to blow your mind welcome to Factnomenal in
today's video we dig into 10 of the most unusual mysterious and even fanciful facts that will all
make you say whoa number one how about a volcano wider than England Olympus Mons is enormous and
it's on mars which is about half the size of earth fancy climbing this volcanic mountain good luck
unless you think Mount Everest is a nice warm-up because this monster is 72 feet tall two and a
half times the size of earth's highest peak for perspective the insanely catastrophic eruption of
Krakatoa in august of 1883 was one of the most deadly volcanic eruptions of modern history it
killed 34,000 and sent tsunami waves 260 feet high in all directions and lava flowed out for 25 miles
a comparable eruption of Olympus Mons would cover the entire area between Los Angeles and Denver
number two a planetary storm larger than earth the weather channel would have a field day with
Jupiter's great red spot this monstrosity is not only larger than our earth but it's a fierce storm
that has billowed for centuries wind speeds of up to 425 miles per hour mean this counterclockwise
rotating hurricane isn't going to get a close-up visit any time soon NASA's Juno spacecraft comes
within 2,100 miles of Jupiter's murky surface which is plenty close enough and at 2,400
degrees Fahrenheit it's enough to melt some iron number three neutron stars will make you dizzy
these hyperactive oddities are the remnants of large stars that go supernova and then
collapse into incredibly dense and little objects about 10 to 15 miles across they're so dense if
you took every one of the 7.9 billion people on the planet and gave them the same density
we'd all fit into one sugar cube and they spin when newborn neutron stars rotate at
60 times per second and when part of a binary system the speed gets up to
600 rotations a second and then there's the opposite number four birthdays on Venus are weird
that's right boys and girls good luck figuring out when your pool party is this year see when you
live on Venus each full day takes 243 earth days complicating this is that an actual solar day the
time it takes for the sun to rise set and get back to the same place in the sky is almost 117 days
because our so-called sister planet rotates so slowly and in the opposite direction of its
orbit yep the sun rises in the west add to that that a year lasts only 225 days so feel free to
message us here at fact nominal when you figure out exactly how birthdays are celebrated on Venus
number five Uranus and Neptune may have diamond showers these two marvels are believed to have
temperatures within their extremely dense atmospheres that go from three thousand to twelve
thousand degrees Fahrenheit and pressures from two hundred thousand to six million times those on
earth but here's the kicker these conditions are ideal to produce diamonds scientists even tested
this idea and were able to form these so raining from the skies of Uranus and Neptune may be shiny
little engagement rings and enough bling to make everyone on earth rich number six space is silent
no need to pack those noise-canceling headphones when headed out into the cosmos because
there's no sound zero sound is basically vibrating air and if there's one thing in short supply in
interstellar space it's air astronomers use some weird gadgets to convert some of what's out there
into audio we can hear but it's not sound a star goes supernova next to you and what do you hear
nothing like the iconic tagline and Ridley Scott's Alien "In space no one can hear you
scream" number seven the moon is shaped like a lemon okay before you run outside tonight to
prove this wrong hear us out if you hold a lemon a certain way it looks round right well our moon was
formed at nearly the same time as earth and it was formed hot it was also closer to earth then
which created its odd shape that can easily be seen from space the molten moon's crust bulge
due to earth's gravity and its two side bulges resemble a lemon or some say it's an egg whichever
number eight we're on a collision course with another galaxy nasa's Hubble space telescope
has confirmed that galactic armageddon is on the way and will be a major cosmic event our milky way
and its neighboring andromeda galaxy are headed for a cataclysmic collision which will result in
a major makeover that includes our son very likely being thrown into a different orbit farther away
from the new galactic center astronomers once thought the encounter might be a glancing blow
but Hubble has confirmed that it will be head-on thank you Hubble but it's not time to run for
the hills yet the collision is still four billion years down the road number nine solar eclipses are
a major coincidence everyone has seen beautiful images of full solar eclipses with the moon
slowly blocking out the sun did you ever wonder why they appear to be the exact same size when
of course they're not just ask your math teacher remember that guy the sun's diameter is about 400
times bigger than the moons but it's also about 4,000 times farther away from earth those two
features cancel out the differences so they appear the same size from here and thus solar eclipses
and number 10 we may never reach the nearest star besides the sun okay so not exactly a fact or
even a popular opinion but consider this the parker space probe the fastest object built by
humans hit 430,000 miles per hour or a whopping 0.06 of the speed of light at this speed we'd
reach Proxima Centauri the nearest star in a mere 6,300 years that's over 250 generations
and yes never is a strong word but without wormholes or folding space or some other
science fiction becoming science fact we'll be nesting on good old earth for quite a while
so what do you think about our compilation of the odd and thought-provoking did some of them
make you go whoa tell us in the comments and as always thank you for watching Factnomenal