Space is full of marvels and everywhere astronomers look
they find the fascinating odd and simply strange welcome the Factnomenal in today's
video we have compiled 13 of the strangest space phenomena ever witnessed by astronomers
we are likely about to find out maybe in less than three months
in the center of a galaxy 1.2 billion light years away this grand event is unfolding right before us
binary black holes are believed to be circling each other in a cosmic countdown that is getting
shorter by the day the discovery team believes the pair are in the last stage of orbital evolution
the end of an interstellar dance and are about to produce the loudest siren to be detected
astronomers say the chances of seeing such an event from earth are about 1 in 10,000 years
but here we are and a mind-blowing blast across the entire electromagnetic spectrum is expected
Hubble very recently discovered this disastrous triple merger of galaxies that are drawing
nearer and nearer to each other while their gravities rip them apart nasa says the cluster
ic2431 is in the constellation about 680 million light years from earth our milky way is no
stranger to this violence and is thought to have consumed over a dozen galaxies in its lifetime
on June 29th 2019 astronomer Hugh Osborne found an extremely strange celestial object a star so
odd it's being called the Random Transitor instead of the normal long set of numbers in a period of
87 days this star was transited up to 28 times meaning 28 objects passing in front of the star
through our field of view just like planets will so far so good but no pattern has been found
no periodic and predictable orbiting planets are making these transits the discoverers say
the transit times which are being studied with the Kepler space telescope are so erratic they could
have been produced by a random number generator in fact Kepler has observed 500 000 stars and see
nothing like the Random Transitor theories include the presence of 27 planets roughly the same size
and one unknown object but even then they must have orbits astronomers have never witnessed
a cosmic cloud of booze literally space alcohol was discovered in 1995 near the constellation
Aquila how much every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints a day for a billion years
before the interstellar tap runs dry this strange phenomena has been observed as new stars form
ethyl alcohol attaches to gas and dust clouds before heating separating and morphing into an
alcoholic gas and it turns out there is more booze in at least two other milky way locations so it's
highly doubtful we will ever run out unless of course Homer Simpson is on the job right dope
there are insane weather systems on exoplanets that astronomers are finding more and more of
one of these nightmare scenarios was witnessed in 2013 on wasp 76b which is happily floating
around the constellation pisces and this crazy planet actually rains molten iron the world is
tidally locked to its star much in the way the moon is to earth meaning one side is in perpetual
daylight and it's close the day's side reaches 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit 2,371 degrees celsius
so hot that it vaporizes metals that astronomers have detected in its upper atmosphere
powerful winds move these across the daylight threshold to its night side where it falls as
molten iron it's a bizarre space phenomenon but not much of a travel destination
a team at NASA's Goddard space flight center discovered a group of galaxy
clusters moving at breakneck speed towards no one knows the discoverer Sasha Kashlinsky
dubbed the attractor between the Centaurus and vela constellations dark flow and indications
are that this invisible cosmic magnet is far larger than anything in our known universe
astronomers were befuddled by dg sat-1 a galaxy discovered in 2016 nearly as large as our milky
way but so diffuse that it's nearly invisible called an ultra diffuse galaxy udg it is almost
odd in that udgs like it are normally found in clusters this oddball sits by itself and is almost
invisible researchers believe that it formed very shortly after the big bang a sort of ghost galaxy
maybe it's just us here at fact nominal but the idea of waking up one morning
and finding our planet has broken free of the sun and is now a cosmic wanderer creeps us out
astronomers recently found a group of at least 70 of these free-floating rogue planets just
wandering the cosmos relatively nearby before you think to track down one on the next starship
just remember it's virtually always dark and insanely cold on these strange planets
on the bright side stargazing must be spectacular
two of our next door neighbors relatively speaking may have diamond rainfall Uranus
and Neptune are believed to have temperatures from 3,000 to 12 thousand degrees Fahrenheit
and pressures from two hundred thousand to six million times those on earth scientists tested
the theory that these conditions would produce diamonds and guess what they produce diamonds
and no it is not science fiction in 2017 hubble spotted this monster which is normally
nestled in the center of a galaxy but has been dislodged by the extremely violent merging of
two supermassive black holes much like concentric circles when a rock is thrown in a pond
these waves sent the black hole hurtling through space at 5 million miles per hour
this is one entity you surely wouldn't want to cross paths with on the cosmic highway of space
first discovered by tabitha boyajian of louisiana state university this odd object confused
astronomers for many years why it would dim then brighten then dim and then brighten at very
irregular lengths of time was it an intentional signal many were perplexed but the prevailing
explanation now is that it is surrounded by an unusual dust ring that causes the fluctuations
so is a diamond planet invincible not likely considering what we list at number
13 but it would be a highly tempting destination for a mining expedition
the world known as 55 cancery e is double earth size with nine times its mass a mere 40 light
years away and evidence suggesting a world with a carbon to oxygen ratio greater than one
and while this conclusion has recently been debated there is a strong likelihood that
its high pressure has produced a hard diamond interior a diamond planet beats diamond showers
yes black holes get a lot of ink and yes they are rather common knowledge but only recently
have astronomers taken the first ever picture of these hungry beasts and its event horizon
lurking at the center of the m87 galaxy Stephen Hawking famously described the effects a black
hole would have on a hapless human caught in its grasp as spaghettification who would experience
thankfully only once and quite briefly the sensation of having their bones
flesh and even the tiniest molecules stretched like so much pasta
so what do you think about these utterly strange phenomena astronomers have spotted in our amazing
universe is there something even more bizarre just waiting to be found perhaps with the James
Webb space telescope tell us in the comments and as always thank you for watching Factnomenal