Hey YouTube, Jim here!
Welcome to Top10Archive!
Do you ever find yourself wondering about this huge rock we’re floating on and the
things surrounding it?
Does the thought of some space object crashing through your roof and living room floor terrorize
you?
Well, it sometimes keeps me up at night thinking
- which is why we’ve compiled this list of the Top 10 Scariest Things Found in Space!
Before we blow your mind, we asteroid you to give the video a like and click the bell
for future notifications.
Ohyea, and be sure to leave your best COMET!
Get it, comet?
10.
Wandering Black Holes Black holes on their own are probably the
scariest thing we heard of as kids.
To start, a black hole is a void that has a gravitational pull so strong that light
can’t even get out.
It is the epitome of space mystery wrapped into a huge vortex of terror.
Add to the fact that astronomers have now found that there is such thing as wandering
black holes.
That’s right, these terrifying vortexes, straight out of interstellar can travel and
suck up anything that gets in their way at a speed of, get this, 5 million kilometers
per hour.
That’s like a space tornado on steroids.
During a collision or merge with a separate galaxy, both of these types of black holes
could move to the outer parts of one galaxy and into another.
Though supermassive black holes (with up to 10 billion times the sun’s mass) are thought
to be in the center of most galaxies, we don’t have one in the Milky Way.
But we also don’t want one, your move, Universe.
9.
An Endless Hot Day This “super earth”, aptly named 55 Cancri-e
and some 40-light-years away from Earth, is twice the size of our planet in radius, but
has one side permanently facing its star.
This means that on this planet you have to travel to the other side to get a good night’s
sleep!
The disturbing part about it is that on the day side, temperatures reach 4400 degrees
Fahrenheit, and though the night side is about half that, it’s still an extremely hot planet
in which there is no atmosphere or wind to regulate temperature.
8.
Skull Fly By For some reason, there are few days on this
Earth that we look to the skies more than on Halloween.
We love it when it all comes together and we get a clear sky, a full moon, and a Halloween
night all in one.
In 2015, we got more than we bargained for.
That exact night an asteroid flew by Earth, which on its own is nothing new as we constantly
see a rain of asteroids that don’t make it near our atmosphere.
However, this asteroid was all but normal.
Its orbit was just outside of our moon but it was the shape that really blew people’s
minds.
Once you take a good look at the surface of this asteroid - that would have made a 6-mile
wide dent in our planet - you see it has a face!
And not just any face, the face of a skull.
A bad omen?
Perhaps.
What’s worse is that it’ll make a return in November, 2018! [looks at camera] Remind
me to stay home that night, will ya?
7.
A Face on Mars It’s said that we look for faces in anything:
on toast, in clouds, this dog’s butt…
But, in 1976, scientists found a face on Mars.
That’s right.
Once you take a look at the rock formation its found on, it’s uncanny!
It seems as if a mask resembling a human face had just been left behind by some ancient
civilization waiting to be found.
Though it may not look like it, the entire face is roughly 1 mile or 1.6 kilometers across!
Similar phenomena are seen on Earth, like the Old Man on the Mountain in New Hampshire,
so scientists believe that this was simply a natural result of erosion, lava and other
natural elements.
Call me an Earthist, but I don’t think faces belong outside our planet..
6.
The Eridanus Supervoid The Eridanus Supervoid, also known as the
Great Void, is an entirely empty space in… well.. space!
The size alone, 500 million light years in diameter, makes it the largest “thing”
to be discovered by NASA.
To put it in perspective, imagine that you’re sitting in an empty room, but there’s no
floor, or walls, or any sort of matter around forever.
There’s no escape.
Is there an opposite of claustrophobic?
Because that’s the exact feeling this type of endlessness induces.
The bizarre truth of the matter is, scientists have no idea how this void even happened.
Some even think it’s a black hole, perhaps even an entanglement with another universe.
This particular case brings a question into light..
What’s more frightening, a vast space of inescapable nothing, or a vast space of unknowns?
5.
Zombie Star Supernova iPTF14hls has a less-than-climactic
name, but its story is absolutely amazing.
When astronomers realized a few years ago that the star had been dying and coming back
to life for months, they decided to look into it further.
Typically when a star dies, explosively, it will keep a nice bright glow that remains
after the burst for around 100 days.
This star, however, kept going for a full 600 days!
That’s not even the craziest part, though, because when they looked into it they realized…
the star had been reported to die in 1954 and had kept dying and reviving ever since!
It’s a Frankenstein star!
Turns out, we don’t know much about the death of stars.
4.
Pumpkin Stars NASA has nicknamed 18 stars the “Extreme
Pumpkin Stars”, whose shape is formed by their extreme spin.
These stars don’t just look crazy, they blast X-rays into space thousands of times
more than our own star, the sun.
Everything in our galaxy is quite mild when you look at it.
Sure the sun is a huge fiery ball of spinning lava, but it’s just a baby compared to what’s
really out there.
Our sun takes nearly one month to rotate in entirety, while these massive stars, some
10 times larger, can spin in just 5 1/2 days!
That, my friends, is a very large, very quick spinning hot ball of gas.
And we’re just fine watching from the comfort of our telescopes, thank you.
3.
A Totally Dark Planet If you slept with a night light and ran to
your parents’ side during a power outage, you’ll definitely find this planet to be
the most daunting, because TrEs-2b is straight out of a Batman movie.
Gotham city?
Try planet of eternal night.
This planet, discovered in 2006, is the darkest to be found orbiting a star.
The reason?
It’s doesn’t reflect light and is actually less reflective than coal.
However, there’s a bright side.
The atmosphere on the planet is so hot that its believed to burn a deep red glow.
Is it worth the lava-hot temperatures?
We’re not so sure.
2.
The Largest Electric Current Have you ever accidentally shocked yourself
with an outlet or gotten a particularly rough shock that shook you to your core?
In a galaxy far, far away, is a supermassive black hole.
And you know that when astronomers say supermassive, they’re not kidding.
In this galaxy, known as 3C303, a supermassive black hole exists that has a magnetic field
with the largest electrical current on record, in the universe!
The electrical current is the equivalent of one trillion lightning bolts on Earth.
Imagine the closest lightning you’ve seen.
It was startling, right?
Well, it doesn’t even pale in comparison to what this electrical current produces.
1.
A Nightmare in Space Who doesn’t love a nice, brightly-colored
planet?
Though its beautiful blue exterior is attractive, you wouldn’t want to get caught on HD 189733
b.
On the outside, it looks similar to Earth, but any space traveler caught on this planet
would have to endure the fatal weather, with winds up to 4,500 MPH!
To put that into perspective, Tropical Cyclone Olivia, known for having the highest recorded
wind speeds, clocked in around 253 MPH.
Doing the math, that’s roughly 1/18th as strong!
Even if we could sit through that, anytime we had to endure a rainstorm we’d be succumbing
to space-torture.
As if this planet were invented by Vlad the Impaler, rain on this planet is essentially
a glass storm, as the silicate particles rain sideways.
Suddenly the Earth doesn’t seem so bad now, huh?