ever wondered what would happen if one day a giant wormhole opens up and thousands of creepy looking
alien insects swarm into our galaxy well we don't know if anything like that will ever take place
but after everything that happened in 2020 we cannot really strike it off the menu yet
if you consider yourself a space cowboy and get high on the high octane nightmare fuel scattered
around the universe we have the perfect fix for you today stay tuned to know the craziest scariest
and creepiest stuff discovered in space that even left the astronomers jumping out of their seats
number 10 ghost hand of god if you thought that witches ghosts and ghouls only haunted people
on our planet you'd be caught dead wrong mister in this photo which looks like an
interstellar x-ray you can see that there is a glowing green zombie-like hand reaching through
the depths of space to grab a bright red cloud of light looking at this picture we can't help
but think is this a giant space zombie grabbing some dinner not quite nasa calls this nebula the
hand of god it is actually a pulsar wind nebula produced by the dense remnant of a star that
exploded in a supernova if you want to trick your annoying younger brother on halloween we recommend
scaring him with this picture number nine being ghosted by a star if you think being ghosted by
your ex-boyfriend was painful enough think how it feels after being ghosted by an actual star
about 75 million miles away in the kinman dwarf galaxy there was a luminous blue variable star
that made its presence known with an incredible light signature which was 2.5 billion times
stronger than the sun that is until it didn't it was last cited in 2011 but when astronomers went
to study it less than a decade later it had simply vanished without a trace normally you'd expect a
star like this to go out with a bang and form a very obvious supernova but this one seems to
have ghosted us in a way that's left astronomers puzzled number eight a screaming skull in space
it's okay you are not the only one to shriek after looking at this horrific skull picture
this ghastly face in space appears to be screaming while suffering through a miserable fiery death
but no real skulls were harmed in the making of this photo it's actually an x-ray image of a
cluster of galaxies known as the perseus cluster taken from the nasa chandra x-ray observatory
number seven there are actual space ghosts nope your eyes are not playing a trick on you ghastly
figures appear to be fighting to escape from this cloud of interstellar gas and dust called sh2136
the illuminated dark nebula is about 1400 light years away towards a constellation cephas it
actually gets its name from the constellation being known as the ghost of cephas and
stretches about two light years wide number six colossal cosmic crater a black hole sucker punch
have you ever thought about getting punched in the face by a black hole
don't fall off your chair if we tell you that black holes are known to occasionally flare up
and give off incredible outbursts of energy punching holes in surrounding gas and material
creating a crater recently x-rays and radioisotope
picked up on the fact that the supermassive black hole at the center of the ophiuchus galaxy cluster
threw a huge tantrum at some point in the distant past and created a crater which
as researcher simona justin tushie puts it quote you could fit 15 milky way galaxies in a row into
unquote the sheer size of it led astronomers to initially rule out the possibility of an explosion
but when the crater was found to be visible in both x-rays and radio waves they had no other
choice but to accept it number 5 zombie pac-man nebula this space pac-man got a fangs upgrade
which makes us wonder did the alien playing this simulation game get a cheat code or something
an ominous looking nebula called ngc 246 lurks in the constellation cassiopeia about 9 200
light years away from earth it is nicknamed the skull numbula but some astronomers call
it the pacman nebula as it appears to be taking a bite out of space to visible light telescopes
this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos earning it the nickname
but viewed in infrared light by nasa's wide-field infrared survey explorer or wise
the pac-man takes on a new appearance in place of its typical triangle-shaped mouth
you could see a new set of lower sharp looking teeth number 4 speedy star supernova survivor
on the subject of stars with strange fates a white dwarf was found to have gone supernova
and survived against all odds scientists were dumbfounded as the clues paint an odd picture
the star has an unusual composition without the expected hydrogen or helium but packing carbon
sodium and aluminum which normally aren't present in white dwarfs it's tiny only about forty percent
the mass of the sun and it's absolutely vrooming through the galaxy at a blistering
nine hundred thousand kilometers per hour speed the only explanation that the scientific team
could come up with was that it had somehow gone through a partial supernova and survived
that would have burned off the missing elements produced the unexpected ones shrunk its mass and
sent the star hurtling off at an incredible speed number three the eye of sauron is watching you
this evil eye-shaped nebula formerly named fomalt strikes an eerie resemblance to the fearful eye
of sauron from the lord of the rings series in the books tolkien described the eye as being
quote rimmed with fire watchful and intent and the black split of its pupil opened up on a pit
a window into nothing unquote weirdly there's also a zombie planet which surrounds this nebula which
was debunked in 2005 and then re-proved in 2012. moreover astronomers have been baffled by the
planet's unusual orbit and have wondered why there are so many comets in the vicinity of the star
number two black hole turning a star into a planet it's like a star failed the test and got demoted
by the principle of the universe the most bizarre thing ever is going to happen to a star in the
galaxy gsn 069 in around a trillion years time this star may be transformed into a jupiter-like
planet thanks to an endless close encounter with a black hole the strange story was uncovered when
astronomers noticed bright x-ray bursts going off every nine hours like clockwork on closer
inspection they realized it was a star being flung in a unique spirograph orbit around a black hole
the flashes were from material being slurped off the star's surface every time it whizzed
past its hungry host the slow but steady feast had already transformed the star from a red giant to a
white dwarf over untold millions of years and the scientists predicted that given another trillion
it might cool down enough to become a planet assuming the universe even lasts that long
number one extended space travel can change your dna astronaut scott kelly who spent a year at the
international space station in 2016 returned to find that he was two inches taller than
his departing height the new physical differences between kelly and his identical twin brother mike
who's also an astronaut were startling scientists compared dna of the two and found that
besides growing two inches kelly's gut bacteria were completely different and his
gene expression had changed crazy right scientists concluded that the changes were caused by quote
the stresses of space travel which can cause changes in the cell's biological pathways unquote
although kelly eventually returned to his original height his other genetic changes are seemingly
irreversible meaning kelly and his brother are no longer identical twins now you know that
it's possible to get sucker-punched by a black hole and that the eye of sauron actually exists
but can you really believe going to space just to get those two extra inches we would in an instant
if nasa offered let us know your thoughts in the comments below and give us a thumbs up if you want
to get ghosted away in space maybe we can make our next video about that thanks for watching