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our universe is full of both amazing and
terrifying things you already know about
quazars black holes dark matter and so
on but how about the horrors of space
that you haven't even heard of would you
like to visit the most bizarre worlds in
the universe and it's not me who made
this list but NASA themselves welcome to
the Galaxy of Horrors NASA's awesome
Halloween collection please join me on a
journey to some planets and tell me
which ones you would consider the most
horrible buckle
up our first destination is a gas giant
called TR 2B it's located 750 Lighty
years away from us if we used a regular
spaceship it would take us about 10
million years to get there trass 2B
orbits a yellow dwarf a star similar to
our sun it also weighs about 1.5 times
more than Jupiter so what's so special
about it well if you're Afraid of the
Dark you definitely don't want to visit
this place it's the planet of Eternal
Night the darkest one of all the planets
known to us but it's not that far from
its star so why is that the thing is the
surface of trest 2B reflects light even
worse than coal does because of this it
seems that there's no light at all if
you were flying across the surface of
this planet it would be like walking
with a blindfold on your eyes oh wait
actually there there is some light an
eerie deep red glow surrounds the
surface of the planet this glow is
created by the burning atmosphere which
makes Tres 2B a scorching Planet the air
there is even hotter than lava oh but if
you think that was bad let me show you
the next place of our horror Journey
NASA wasn't beating about the bush while
nicknaming this
one now we're not just talking about one
planet but three at once they're also
located quite far away 2,300 light years
from the sun we would have reached them
by ship in about 35 million years all
the planets are in the constellation
Virgo and each is extremely light much
lighter than the earth these three
exoplanets are called Poltergeist
dragger and phobetor huh cool names huh
it's because each of these planets is
about to become a ghost soon the thing
is they don't revolve around a star but
around a pulsar pulsars are rotating
neutron stars with an extremely powerful
magnetic field in simple words these are
the stars that exploded one day after
the explosion they usually emit such a
powerful pulse that it causes the star
to rotate at an unimaginable speed
several thousand rotations per second at
the same time they constantly emit
electromagnetic pulses that affect
everything around them so you've
probably already guessed what's
happening with our zombie planets
they're slowly gradually being destroyed
under the gigantic influence of
radiation one day they'll disappear
Without a Trace ghostlike planets
orbiting an undead star yeah Zombie
World Is A fitting name it's also not
surprising that scientists nicknamed
this Pulsar Lich despite the Long
official name well at least these guys
stick together on their final
dance this planet has a long name so
bear with me HD
189733b this gas giant is 65 light years
away from us it would have taken around
1 million years to get there on a
spaceship HD um well this planet is
slightly more massive than Jupiter and
orbits its star an orange dwarf all
alone at first glance it may seem
friendly a pleasant blue color and curls
on the surface kind of resembles a
summer sky or foam on sea waves right oh
looks are very deceptive my friend this
planet has a pleasant cobalt blue color
due to the hazy blow torched atmosphere
this atmosphere contains silicates that
condense when heated in other words the
clouds on this planet have rain made of
glass yes it rains hot glass shards here
oh and if that's not enough there's a
raging wind on the surface which is
moving at a speed of 5400 mph just to
compare the fastest wind on Earth had a
speed of 254 mph about 20 times weaker
and because of this hundreds of
thousands of glass shards Rush
horizontally across the planet's surface
at Breakneck speed I really don't envy
anyone who would want to try to land
there by the way this isn't the only
example of strange rains in our universe
for example it rains molten iron on the
planet dimidium or let's take so-called
carbon planets their existence hasn't
yet had been proven but if they do exist
there would be tons of black poisonous
clouds and it would rain pure gasoline
and hot liquid asphalt oh and also
raindrops would explode upon touching
the surface eh nothing special the next
planet though is actually really strange
it didn't just revolve around its star
it lived inside the
star this Cosmic Miracle is called koi
55b or Kepler 70b
this planet is very far away from us
4,000 light years it would take about 70
million years on a spaceship it's twice
as light as Earth and fully rotates
around its star in just a couple of
hours a long time ago it was an ordinary
earthlike Planet about the size of
Jupiter it was peacefully and calmly
orbiting its red dwarf star koi 55 but
everything changed about 700 million
years ago perhaps you've heard that in a
couple billion years our son sun will
begin to expand into a huge star
absorbing everything in its path well
this is the fate of red dwarfs sooner or
later they increase turning into
incredibly hot blue giants the same
thing happened with koi 55 this star
began to increase in size and heat up in
temperature gradually turning into a
blue white giant it was ready to devour
its nearest planets but koi 55b didn't
care about it when the star reached it
this planet just settled inside and
moreover after some time it left its
star simply returning to the new orbit
how was that even possible life inside
its star turned koi 55b into a redh hot
round Stone it's one of the hottest
planets we've discovered so far the
temperature on it reaches 12,000 de F
it's hotter than the sun which is let me
remind you an actual star and for some
reason it's still alive and lives as if
nothing happen happened unfortunately
sooner or later the planet will
disappear anyway it's slowly evaporating
itself due to the incandescent
atmosphere but still it somehow managed
to survive the journey through the star
which isn't typical for regular planets
to put it mildly I envy this
willpower however not all planets are so
lucky some are gradually being destroyed
by their stars and there is even an
entire system among
them this last planet is a sad loner
it's located 870 Lighty years away from
us the journey by ship to it would take
about 25 million years this planet is
about 1.5 times more massive than
Jupiter this is a very sad dark planet a
doomed gas giant which is very similar
to hot Jupiter orbits its star all alone
at the same time it's located so close
to its star that its orbital period
takes just one day of course because of
this proximity
the star gradually absorbs wasp 12b the
scorching heat of the star is slowly
destroying and devouring the planet's
atmosphere the planet has only around 10
million years left but what's more
interesting because of this stretching
wasp 12b acquired the shape of an egg it
doesn't even resemble an actual planet
anymore it's also very hot the surface
temperature of the gas giant reaches
4,000 de F also a spectrog of cosmic
origin or cosos for short found that the
planet exchanges matter with its star
they're located so close that they give
each other part of their chemical
elements this is a common phenomenon in
closely spaced binary star systems but
this is the first time scientists have
seen this in a star planet relationship
what a unique
system to be honest if I was guaranteed
complete Security I'd be excited to
visit at least some of them what about
you please let me know in the the
comments
t2b or not to be is a planet where night
never ends and it's not your regular
night with stars shining in the
beautiful Skies here it's pitch dark and
scorching hot Tes 2B is a gas giant
roughly 1 and 1/2 times more massive
than Jupiter and its surface absorbs
light better than charcoal it might also
have a faint dark red glow because of
its burning air which is as hot as fresh
lava lovely in the star system of 55
canre there are five planets four of
which are gas giants similar to Jupiter
and Saturn but the fifth one or rather
the first because it's closest to the
star is different in a most horrible way
55 canre e is so close to its Sun that
half the planet surface is a literal
ocean of molten lava the other half is
in Eternal Darkness because it never
sees the sun the planet is always always
turn to its star on one side and between
the scorching and the dark there's the
Twilight Zone a thin strip of gloomy
nothingness that's a getaway spot
hd89
377b oh I'm not going to say that again
is the only exoplanet in the orbit of
its star and at first glance it looks
quite pretty blue and white swirls
making up wondrous patterns on the
surface but these Pleasant colors
actually come from hard silicate
particles in the planet's atmosphere
which means it rains glass here but the
worst is that winds reach the speed of
5,400 mph or almost Max 7 well for
comparison the fastest wind speed on
Earth was 254 mph over 20 times less
thus the glass falling from the sky
travels horizontally at Hypersonic
speeds shredding everything in its bath
better duck
the next system whose name I won't even
try to pronounce um this one has three
exoplanets which are all being slowly
destroyed by their own star it happens
because that star is not irregular it's
a pulsar a rapidly spinning core of an
exploded star it creates powerful
electromagnetic pulses in several
directions while rotating at several
thousand times per second as a result
the planets orbiting this deceased star
are slowly being eaten away way and will
eventually disappear entirely Kepler 70
hey I can say that one is a hot blue
dwarf star that exploded into a red
giant some 18 million years ago at the
time it was orbited by at least two
planets the closer of which was a
jupiter-like gas giant its name was
Kepler 70b and it still exists but the
overgrown star consumed it and
transformed it into a blazing hot Rocky
world right now it's one of the hottest
planets ever ever discovered its
temperature is higher than the surface
of our sun it was lucky to survive
spending time inside the star but it's
evaporating now and will probably be no
more in the near future wasp 12b is one
of the weirdest and saddest planets out
there the enormous gravity of its star
combined with the planets consisting
mostly of gas result in the star slowly
devouring its Protegé uh so pal like uh
what's eating you my mother wasp 12b has
already taken the form of an egg
stretched toward its merciless sun and
it's unable to do anything with its
condition in another 10 million years
the planet will inevitably succumb to
the voracious Stars appetite hey you
asked if you ever wondered what it's
like to walk on ice and hot coals at the
same time gley
436b is a planet that would give you a
vivid example being extremely close
close to its Sun the neptun siiz
exoplanet boasts temperatures hotter
than a blazing oven and yet it's covered
in ice which burns incessant this ice is
much denser due to the enormous gravity
of the planet staying solid even under
extreme conditions and not melting away
no list of frightening worlds could do
without mentioning Venus the Earth's
evil
twin the second planet from the sun has
an atmosphere so thick and full of
clouds that its surface is much hotter
than that of mercury volcanic eruptions
constantly thrash Venus its gravity is
almost 100 times stronger than ours and
those clouds I mentioned are not made of
water but of sulfuric acid which
condenses and rains down on the ground
adding to The Inferno but even if you
were Brave or crazy enough to try to
pass through these clouds you probably
couldn't the winds up there are as
strong as some of the most powerful
hurricanes back back on
Earth here we have a very long name for
a very very cold Planet although the
hostar is not too far away it's a small
and rather cool Red Dwarf whose light
and heat barely even reach the planet
the temperatures out there fall as low
as-
370° which is only marginally warmer
than absolute zero the exoplanet is thus
dark gloomy and covered in Eternal ice
that never thaws I thought I thaw that
thumb worth still if it has a rocky core
it might generate some heat so there's a
chance that deep below the Frozen
surface some unknown alien things might
lurk dimidium located roughly 50 light
years away from our solar system is a
planet hostile to any living thing on
many accounts it's tidy locked to its
sun which means one of its sides is
always facing the star while the other
is always turned away the hot side is
heated to over,
1800° perpetually blown over with winds
reaching 600 mph and that's winter well
actually I don't know that despite
dimidium being a gas giant it has a
large amount of iron in it which melts
and evaporates in the atmosphere
creating clouds and when those cool down
they fall on the surface in the infernal
rain of molten iron that'll test your
metal oxygen is usually viewed as an
element that might bring life to a
planet but this is definitely not the
case for oseris scientists were shocked
to find oxygen on this planet or rather
around it because it's eight times
closer to its star than Mercury is to
the sun this extreme distance makes
oseris a living Melting Pot where
anything that could burn will it's also
responsible for a very short orbit of
the planet around the star a year on
oseris is just 3 and 1/2 days on Earth
to boot the atmosphere of the planet is
constantly blown and melted away by the
heat from its Sun vacation nah let's
keep looking karat EXO 3B is neither as
hot nor as cold as some of the others on
this list but it's terrifying in its own
more Insidious way it's a gas giant
similar in size to Jupiter yet 20 times
denser this makes this exoplanet's
gravity weigh down on everything on its
surface 50 times more than it would on
Earth stepping on it would be your
ultimate Doom because you'd be
immediately crushed by the density of
its
atmosphere karat 7B is another oven-like
world its day-to-day temperature is over
4,000 de combined with the rocky surface
it presents an infernal landscape the
rocks on the ground bubble and boil
evaporating in the atmosphere where they
cool down and eventually fall back on
the surface in a brimstone rain the
saddest thing about karat 7B is that it
might have w once been a gas giant whose
atmosphere melted away from the heat
leaving only the scorched core this
planet yeah the one right here shouldn't
exist but it does a newly discovered
planet rotates around a star that's much
smaller and dimmer than our sun the
planet however is enormous such a tiny
star couldn't create it so it's like
finding an ostrich egg in a chicken
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Coupe a team at Penn State built a
special tool called the habitable Zone
Planet finder it's an instrument that's
supposed to find planets around dim cool
Stars it's connected to a big telescope
in Texas the tool looks at the light
from these Stars which is mostly in the
near infrared beyond what our eyes can
see this gadget can spot changes in a
star speed caused by a planet if a star
movement slightly changes that means
there must be a gravitational pole
nearby years ago this technique helped
find the first known exoplanet around a
star like our sun today we've improved
this method to make more precise
measurements our main goal is to find
earthlike planets they should be Rocky
and located in habitable zones areas
around Stars where liquid water could
exist the Doppler technique isn't that
great at finding earthlike worlds yet
but works well for cool dim stars and
that's how we discovered the impossible
LHS 3154
B planets usually form in discs made of
gas and dust in space picture a flat
spinning cloud of tiny particles these
particles come together and stick to
each other creating a flat rotating disc
over time these tiny bits combine to
form a solid core this is the starting
point for a planet once the core is
there it attracts more dust and even gas
like hydrogen and helium but making a
planet this way isn't easy they need a
lot of stuff mass and materials this
process is called core
accretion stars are a huge help in that
process usually big stars have more
gravity so they can gather more stuff to
form planets but the star we discovered
recently isn't very big it's nine times
smaller than our sun a star that small
shouldn't have a big enough disc to make
a heavy planet to do that its disc
should have been at least 10 times
bigger but this heavy Planet LHS 3154 B
exists
now this mysterious planet is 13 times
heavier than our Earth it's similar in
size to Neptune it's about 50 light
years away from us in the Hercules
constellation which in space terms is
very close the planet is also super
close to its star completing one year in
almost 4 days this discovery is making
scientists rethink their ideas about how
planets and stars come into existence
there are new theories coming around for
example a theory called gravitation
instability it says that instead of the
pieces coming together bit by bit the
material in the disc collapses all at
once directly creating a planet but even
with this Theory it's hard to explain
how such a heavy Planet could form
without a really massive disc it'll take
us some time to figure out the
truth this isn't the first planet that
makes us doubt our theories recently
scientists found another planet called
Hala this planet is orbiting a star
called baked do and just like the
previous one it shouldn't really exist
it's way too close to its star Stars
change a lot during their lives normally
when a star becomes big and prepares to
leave this world it's called the red
giant stage a star like that tends to
destroy or push away any nearby planets
creating a huge mess Hala rotates around
a red giant and it should have been
swallowed or destroyed by the expanding
star a long time ago but it's still
still hanging there even though Baku has
already started burning helium and
shrunk to a smaller size than expected
Hala isn't bothered in the slightest
scientists called Hala The Forbidden
Planet ooh this discovery challenges
what we thought about how planets
survive near aging Stars it raises two
theories one suggests that bakd was once
two stars a white door and a red giant
Hala orbited them both and they merged
before the red giant fully expanded
this allowed holla to survive because
the extra helium from the white dwarf
prevented the red giant from growing too
much the second theory says that Hala
formed from the debris created when the
two stars merged in this scenario Hala
would be a very young Planet orbiting an
elderly star astronomers plan to
continue studying Hala and look for more
planets like
that another odod ball besides me is
called LTT 9779 9B this one scares us
too because it's too shiny the planet
reflects 80% of the light from its star
regular mirrors reflect from 85 to
Almost 100% of Light which means that
this mysterious planet should look like
a rough mirror with aluminum or
silver-like
Reflections this is another
neptune-sized planet it's located 268
light years from us and was discovered
by NASA's T spacecraft it completes a
full rotation around its star in just 19
hours it's so close to its star that
it's scorching hot reaching temperatures
over 3,600 de F normally planets this
close lose their atmosphere and turn
into bare rocks but this one Breaks the
Rules
again now this time we know the secret
of its survival it's because of the
planet's shiny metallic clouds which are
made of glass and titanium salt these
clouds rain titanium onto its hot
surface they also reflect a lot of the
light preventing the planet from getting
too hot and losing its atmosphere it's
like having a mirror Shield this planet
size also surprised scientists it's way
bigger than Earth other planets this
Clos to their stars are either much
bigger gas giants or small rocky planets
this planet is a smaller gas giant and
scientists didn't expect it to exist so
close to its star this is the shiniest
planet ever found even shiny than Venus
but despite its cool appearance it's
probably not a friendly place for life
because of its extreme temperatures and
strange metallic
rain and our final rule breaker is a
planet called was
1007b scientists discovered it using the
James Webb Space Telescope it's located
around 208 light years from us in the
Virgo constellation it's also fast and
completes an orbit arounded star in just
6 days this is a super Neptune exoplanet
it's similar to Jupiter in some ways
including the same size and scorching
hot temperatures but the main difference
is that it's much lighter weaker and
less dense this is the least dense
Planet we've discovered so far after
researching some more we also found that
it has a tail the helium on the planet
extends beyond the transit erass the
planet is slowly losing its atmosphere
due to extreme ultraviolet radiation
from the Star this creates a comet-like
tail so it looks like a fluffy
Comet but that was just the beginning
the planet's low density or fluffiness
allowed astronomers to study its
atmosphere in detail they found some
surprising things like water vapor and
clouds made of fine silicate particles
which are like really fine grain sand
the planet's hostar doesn't emit a lot
of high energy light but since wasp 107b
is so loose the light can penetrate deep
into its atmosphere this creates sulfur
dioxide that smell when you light a
match in other words it's a fluffy
planet that rains sand and smells like
matches the researchers think the sand
clouds in the atmosphere form in a
similar way to clouds on Earth they just
have droplets of sand instead of water
the sand droplets condense fall turn
into silicate vapor in hot layers within
the planet and then rise again to form
clouds once more and once again this
planet couldn't have formed in its
current spot astronomers say that it
likely move closer to its star from a
birth orbit because it was attracted by
some heavier neighbor it also follows a
retrograde orbit meaning it orbits in
the opposite direction to its Stars
rotation all these discoveries are
changing how we understand planets and
their atmospheres giving us new insights
into the mysteries of our own solar
system
an exoplanet is any Planet inside our
solar system some of them are free
floating those are called rogue planets
they move around the galactic center
others orbit their host star or two for
the first time astronomers discovered
exoplanets in the 1990s since then
scientists have found thousands of them
and now you can sneak a peak too spoiler
alert some exoplanets are pretty bizarre
other resemble our home planet and could
probably support life
the closest to Earth exoplanet is
Proxima centor B it's a mere 4.2 Lighty
years away from Earth recently
astronomers have found out that this
world might resemble Earth even more
than previously thought it's only 177%
more massive than our home planet it
orbits a star that is dimmer and less
massive than the sun Proxima centor B is
in the middle of the star's habitable
zone this means that chances are liquid
water and life might exist on the
planet it looks like the exoplanet is
tidy locked with its parent star this
means one of its sides faces the star at
all times and the other is always in the
darkness scientists haven't figured out
yet whether the planet has an atmosphere
it's traveling too close to its star and
completes one orbit within 11 Earth days
the radiation from the Star might be
pulling the planet's air away if this is
the case Proxima t b isn't likely to
have liquid water on its
surface glyce 832c is 16 light years
away from Earth in the cosmic scheme of
things it's a Stones throw away this
exoplanet is five times as massive as
Earth and travels much closer to its
parent star that's why a year on this
planet lasts a mere 36 days but since
this star is a red dwarf much cooler and
dimmer than the sun Glee 832c gets as
much light and heat as our planet
does at the same time it's still unclear
if Glee 832c is similar to Earth it
probably has a much thicker atmosphere
that creates a runaway greenhouse effect
this phenomenon occurs when a planet
absorbs more heat from its host star
then it can release back into space this
means that Glee 832c is more likely to
resemble scorching hot Venus rather than
relatively cool Earth
another earthlike planet toi700d is 100
light years away from us in the
constellation Dorado it orbits a small
and rather cool dwarf star that is about
40% of the mass and size of the sun its
surface temperature is half as high as
that of our star the outermost Planet
which is the very toi700d is almost the
size of Earth it also sits in the
habitable zone of its parent star no
flares from toi 700 reach the planet
this increases the chances of the
exoplanet being habitable this means it
can potentially develop and maintain
life scientists don't know for sure the
exact conditions on the surface of the
planet but one of the computer
simulations they've created shows a
planet covered with an ocean it has a
very dense atmosphere dominated by
carbon dioxide astronomers think a
similar atmosphere surrounded Mars when
it was a young planet but another 3D
model shows toi700d as an all land
cloudless world that's what our Earth
would probably look like if it wasn't
covered with oceans winds on toi700d
move away from the night side of the
planet and meet in the area that
directly faces the
star there is an exoplanet that stands
Out Among the rest because of its
awesome magenta color you can find this
world in the Virgo constellation the
planet is called Glee
504b the distance between this planet
and its parent star is nine times the
distance between the Sun and Jupiter the
planet formed relatively recently and is
still glowing with heat that's why its
surface looks
pinkish just 20 light years away from
the sun which isn't such a great
distance when we talk about space a
bizarre Rogue planet is roaming our home
Milky Way galaxy but even though this
planet doesn't orbit any Star it still
has an incredibly powerful magnetic
field it's 4 million times stronger than
Earth's magnetic field the exoplanet
also produces amazing auroras when it
was discovered in 2016 astronomers were
almost sure they had detected a brown
dwarf which is an object too large to be
a planet and too small to be a
star but later scientists received proof
that the space object wasn't big enough
to be a brown
dwarf the planet sure is a mammoth among
its peers it's 1.2 times as wide as the
largest planet of the Solar System
Jupiter and more than 12 times as heavy
astronomers think the exceptional strong
magnetic field helps the planet produce
the auroras but the most curious thing
is that they're generated in a different
way than auroras on Earth it might be
because the exoplanet's moon helps the
planet create these light shows
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if you traveled 20,000 Lighty years away
from Earth you'd come close to a red
dwarf in the Sagittarius
constellation such stars are very cool
and small quite far away from this cold
star there's a
planet the distance between this world
and its host star is so great that the
planet receives very little heat it's
one of the coldest planets ever detected
the average surface temperature on the
planet is lower than 360°
F that's why the entire planet is
covered with a thick layer of ice if you
stepped onto its surface you'd see
nothing but glaciers Plains and
mountains of ice and still astronomers
claim life might exist deep beneath the
Frozen surface all because the core of
the planet is likely to generate enough
heat to melt some of its inner ice in
this case there would be an enormous
subsurface ocean maybe even swarming
with bizarre life forms on the
planet one of the oldest exoplanets we
know about is PCR
b1620 26b it's about 12.7 billion years
old it's almost three times as old as
Earth which appeared 4.5 billion years
ago this also means that the Genesis
planet formed only about 1 billion years
after the big bang the planet is so old
that its two parent stars have had had
enough time to evolve into a white dwarf
and a pulsar making almost 100
revolutions per second sunrises on this
planet must look
awesome I bet the next exoplanet isn't
like any other you might have seen
before it's often called super Saturn or
Saturn on
steroids that's because
j1407b has a colossal system of rings
they're 640 times as large as those of
Saturn the bizarre world is 434 light
years away from Earth it's the only
planet we know about that has rings
similar to Saturn's if you moved
j1407b to our solar system and replaced
Saturn with it its rings would look many
times larger than a full
moon astronomers have noticed a gap
halfway through the planet's rings the
chances are high that an exomoon the
size of Mars orbits the planet somewhere
within this Gap if you lived on this
Moon you'd have an awesome view every
time you looked up into the
sky this exoplanet called wasp 12b
munches on the light coming from its
star it's one of the darkest worlds
people know about all because its day
side consumes light rather than reflects
it back into space the planet is giant
twice the size of Jupiter and it traps
more than 94% of the light that reaches
its atmosphere this this is likely to be
the main reason for the insane
temperatures on the surface of the
planet they can rise up to 4,600 De fit
it's almost half as hot as the surface
of the
Sun wasp 12b travels so close to its
host star that it needs just one day to
complete one orbit its night side isn't
as hot as the day side a mirror 2,200 de
F because of this difference in
temperature water vapor and clouds
gather above the surface of the planet
from time to time swirls of material
from the planet's superheated atmosphere
spill onto its
star about 4,000 Lighty years away from
Earth there's an exoplanet that might be
one enormous Diamond it's 5 times the
size of our planet but needs only 2
hours and 10 minutes to orbit its parent
star it's a pulsar rotating at a rate of
10,000 times a minute
the planet is denser than any other
we've discovered so far it consists
mostly of carbon which is so dense that
astronomers think it might be
crystalline if it was true it could mean
that at least some part of the planet is
diamond on wasp 76b it rains iron on the
night side of the planet and the
temperature on the daytime side Rises up
to 4,300 De F that's hot enough to
vaporize most
metals this planet is a bit smaller than
Jupiter and located 640 Lighty years
away from Earth such terrifying weather
conditions in this world are caused by
its unusual orbit the distance between
wasp 76b and its parent star is 10 times
shorter than the distance between
Mercury and the sun that's why the star
and the huge Planet are tidally locked
one side of wasp 76b always faces the
star and the other side is always Pitch
Black
this bright blue exoplanet sits 62 years
away from Earth a bit larger than
Jupiter it looks calm and peaceful its
blue color might remind you of our home
planet but this familiar appearance
conceals the planet's horrifying nature
the beautiful Hue comes from silicate
atoms and particles that make up the
atmosphere but the wind speed on the
planet can reach
5,400 mph that's s times the speed of
sound the temperature there can rise up
to 1, 1600° F but this isn't the worst
in this bizarre world it rains glass
sideways so it's probably not the place
where you'd like to spend your
vacation very recently astronomers have
found three potential superar planets
orbiting a somewhat close orange dwarf
star the term super Earth is used to
describe a planet beyond the solar
system with a mass High higher than that
of Earth but below those of the ice
giants of the solar system Uranus and
Neptune an international team of
researchers led by Dr scha Dalal from
the University of exodor found that the
exoplanets were orbiting Star HD 484 98
which is located around 55 Lighty years
away from Earth the planets travel
around their star in 738 and 151 Earth
days respectively the study describing
these findings appeared in theour minra
on the 24th of June
2024 the coolest thing here is that the
outermost exoplanet candidate orbits in
the habitable zone of its host star and
the conditions there might be
comfortable enough for liquid water to
exist on the surface without boiling or
freezing such habitable regions around
stars are also known as The goldilock
Zone and are believed to be ideal for
potentially supporting life another
reason this discovery is so important is
that the orange host star is like our
sun but since it's an orange dwarf it
produces less radiation than our yellow
dwarf star it's also the closest
planetary system to host a superar in
the habitable zone of a sunlike star
which makes this discovery super
exciting it can help us move forward in
our quest to locate habitable planets
around solar type stars who knows maybe
this planet will be our new home one
day these potential super Earths were
detected thanks to the harps and rocky
planet search program throughout a
decade the team taking part in this
research has collected nearly 10090 High
Precision measurements using special
equipment by analyzing the spectrum of
light coming from a star astronomers can
figure out whether it's moving toward us
this is known as blue shift or away from
us that's what we call Red shift and
still to make sure their findings were
correct the team used lots of different
methods and comparative analysis
everything confirm their conclusions
there indeed are three planetary
candidates with minimum masses ranging
from 5 to 11 times the mass of our home
planet the team also believes that the
proximity of the star together with the
outermost planet's favorable orbit can
make this system a great Target for
future studies hopefully further
research will open doors for our
understanding of planetary systems and
the potential of life outside our solar
system scientists have already
discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets
which are planets outside the Solar
System since the first such world was
confirmed orbiting a sunlike star in
1995 to find those distant planets
astronomers used different equipment
like NASA's Kepler Space Telescope
launched in 2009 its mission was to find
as many earthlike planets dwelling in
the Milky Way galaxy as possible but
it's not the only instrument used for
searching exoplanets anyway now let
let's look at the most exciting and
promising of these
worlds gal
667cc is a mere 22 Lighty years from
Earth but even though it seems close
it's still around 129 trillion miles
away from us the planet itself is around
3.8 times as massive as Earth and
completes one orbit around its host star
within 28 days in other words a year on
that earthlike planet is 13 times
shorter than a year on our planet
luckily the star is a cool Red Dwarf so
the exoplanet most likely lies in its
habitable zone but there's still a
chance that this world might be
regularly baked by the flares coming
from its parent star which is not cool
on many different
levels Kepler 22b is way further away
than the previous World more than 600
light years away from our planet it was
the very first Kepler planet found in
the habitable zone of its star this
world is larger than Earth it's about
2.4 times our planet size sadly we still
don't know whether this planet is Rocky
liquid or gaseous the orbit of Kepler
22b is similar to Earth's it takes the
planet 290 days to orbit its G-Class
star which is kind of like our sun but
this star is smaller and colder than
ours another Kepler Planet this time
it's Kepler
69c it lies a whopping 2,700 light years
away from us this world is also almost
70% larger than Earth researchers know
nothing about its composition but they
found out that the planet needs 240 days
to complete one orbit this makes its
position in its system like that of
Venus in our solar system at the same
time this world might be more habitable
than Venus since its host star is a bit
less luminous 80% of our
sun toi 733b is a recently discovered
World it was found in 2023 it's out
there 245 Lighty years away from Earth
and needs just 4.9 Earth days to
complete an orbit around its star but
the coolest thing about this planet is
that it might have a massive ocean
according to scientists the planet is
likely to be completely covered with
water does that mean there could be life
on the super Earth time will
tell GJ 1214b is located 48 Lighty years
from Earth this planet is a super earth
almost three times bigger in diameter
and eight times heavier than our home it
orbits around its red dwarf star faster
than you can binge watch your favorite
series finishing a complete Loop every
38 hours but it's not just the planet's
size or orbit that's out of this world
is pretty hot out there with M melting
450° F but the coolest thing is that
this planet is practically drowning in
water the sizzling temperatures and
crazy high pressures on jg1 1214b create
some cool materials like hot ice and
super fluid
water super fluidity is something that
happens in liquid helium when it's
almost as cold as it can get on earth
water totally missed the memo about
being super fluid because it needs
ridiculously low temperatures and
off-the-chart pressures to pull off that
trip still there's not much use in super
fluid water even if you try it you'll
just get
dehydrated the super Earth that's
closest to us was discovered in 2016 and
it's called Proxima centuri B it's
located a mere four Lighty years away
from Earth and has a mass remarkably
similar to that of our planet a year on
Proxima centuri B is short it only takes
the planet 11.2 days to complete a
circle around its Central Star
scientists discovered this world after
they noticed that its parent star was
slightly wobbling they hadn't been sure
what exactly had been happening there
until they realized proxim centari B's
gravity probably produced pulls and tugs
that caused these wobbles although the
exoplanet is traveling in the habitable
zone of its star proximus and tari it is
exposed to extreme ultraviolet radiation
all because it lies very close to its
parent star also none of the telescopes
that are currently working and exploring
exoplanets are positioned well enough to
capture the light from the atmosphere of
the super Earth most things there are
still a mystery to us even though we're
talking about a planet that's really
close superar toi
715b orbits a red dwarf the star smaller
and cooler than our sun at the moment
such Stars remain Prime candidates for
finding habitable planets orbiting them
those miniature Rocky worlds have far
closer orbits than those circling around
stars like our sun but since red dwarfs
are small and cool the planets don't
risk anything when crowding closer
they're still safely within a star's
habitable zone experts say that toi
715b might have once had an atmosphere
thicker than that of Neptune and now the
planet could be in a transition state
where it's losing its atmosphere to
confirm this suspicion scientists need
to do more research and they might
finally learn whether this planet is a
watery terrestrial
planet hey I want to show you something
let's take a little trip off of Earth
and park our spacecraft somewhere
near the moon we're now almost 240,000 M
away from our home planet that's almost
100 times the WID of the United States
now we've brought a special set of tools
with us a giant hammer and an enormous
chisel place the Chisel at the Earth's
north pole and strike its head with the
hammer the Earth cracks open like an
eggshell and we see another planet this
is Thea and it's hiding inside our
planet like a yoke and an egg if you
want to find out how it got there you
need to travel back in time 4.5 billion
years this beautiful nebula is what will
eventually become our solar system
colored dust and various space debris
are slowly coming closer toward the
Common Center over time this jigsaw
puzzle of debris becomes denser and
heavier the temperature inside the giant
is rising soon it gets so high that
it'll trigger a nuclear change
reaction One More second and Bam there's
an explosion so powerful that the shock
waves travel far into deep
space when the dust clears a little you
can see that a bright light is still
shining at the very center of the
explosion this newborn star is the sun
it weighs as much as
333,000 Earths if the sun was a bucket
you'd need 1.3 million earth-sized
planets to fill it but we're interested
in that small object over there 93
million mil away from the Sun this pile
of rocks and hot lava is Earth right now
the planet is busy forming its core
while the oceans of lava are gradually
cooling down but some millions of years
later after the sun's birth you notice
another small object Here Comes Thea
this small planet was formed at about
the same time as Earth and right now
it's following a crazy spal trajectory
at enormous speed scientists believe
Theo was like a ball Jupiter and Venus
played around with Venus would pull feya
in One Direction and then Jupiter would
pull it right back but what makes up
99.8% of the mass of the solar system is
the sun it's what makes Thea move into
almost the same orbit as Earth so they
inevitably come closer and closer to
each other until they become next door
neighbors we see that Thea is roughly
the size of Mars as wide as the Atlantic
Ocean from New York to Portugal
at this point the Collision can't be
avoided Thea is traveling towards Earth
at nearly 9,000 mph that's 11 times
faster than the speed of sound if this
smaller Planet would crash into Earth at
a particular angle Earth would most
likely be torn apart as well as the
itself the Collision would cause a huge
blast visible on other planets even on a
bright day nothing would be left but
some burning dust and debris even if
Thea only slightly grazes the Earth
it'll still knock out a sizeable chunk
but the collision with Thea happens at a
perfect 45° angle it strikes the Earth
at tremendous speed the explosion
literally vaporizes huge amounts of rock
and the shock wave sends the remaining
debris into Earth's orbit a huge crater
is formed at the impact site which soon
gets filled in with boiling lava the
remnants of Thea and the ejected
fragments of earth begin to orbit our
planet according to one Theory these
fragments actually form two moons
at first they travel together but one
day they get too close to each other and
Collide forming one large space body the
other Theory claims that all the loose
shards get pulled in by the remnants of
Thea and that sometime after that they
form the moon as we know it today at
this point in the past though it's just
Red Hot Rock and lava the collision at
this angle slightly tilts our planet and
accelerates its rotation it's because of
Thea that we have different seasons and
24 hours in a day now Earth also has
these things called lithospheric plates
these are enormous solid land masses
that make up the crust of our planet
after the collision with Thea they start
to break and crack it causes carbon a
primary component of all known life on
Earth to start moving all over our
planet so Earth gains a kind of U
metabolism after a few hundred million
years the first living creatures start
to appear on our planet over the next
nearly 4 billion years simp single cell
organisms evolve into the kinds of
complex life you see today according to
scientists a collision like we had with
Thea is a very rare event the
probability that somewhere out there
there's a planet like ours that has
survived the same catastrophe is even
rarer still this may be the reason why
we have yet to find other traces of
other civilizations out there in space
meanwhile the remains of Thea are still
here on Earth of course it doesn't look
like an actual entire planet stuck
inside our own most of the fragments
have melted and blended into the Earth's
crust if you take the top layer off our
planet you'll see two huge lava blobs
the size of large continents they're
right below Africa and the Pacific Ocean
presumably these are the remains of Thea
they didn't mix with the Earth's mantle
because of different densities it's like
mixing water and oil in a glass the oil
will always float up over the water and
create an even layer on top of it but if
you you raise these lava patches up to
the surface they'd be a 100 times higher
than Mount Everest other remains of Thea
might be on the moon the Apollo space
missions brought back many soil samples
for analysis which led scientists to
conclude that the Moon is very similar
to the Earth in structure someday in the
future people could drill deep down and
take samples of the moon's crust then
they'd analyze the blobs from Earth and
if their structure matched it would be
undeniable proof that Thea did hit Earth
4.5 billion years ago and gave us the
moon but for the time being Thea remains
an unsolved mystery scientists are still
not sure that the planet actually
existed the whole idea does perfectly
fit the model of the moon's creation but
it's also possible that this incredible
Collision may have never happened now
let's travel 41 light years away from
Earth to the Planet 55 kry e it's about
twice the size of Earth and eight times
heavier let's take out our giant hammer
again and use it to hit the Chisel the
planet cracks and you see it's a giant
Diamond the temperature on this planet
is tens of times higher than on earth
and its soil is rich in carbon the heat
puts a lot of pressure on this carbon
and the structure changes first it turns
into graphite but then add just a bit
more pressure and the graphite turns to
Diamond on Earth diamonds form at depths
60 M below sea level where the pressure
is 50,000 times greater than that on the
surface and the temperature there
averages over 1,000° which is as hot as
fire diamonds are often ejected closer
to the surface in volcanic eruptions but
still people mostly have to dig mines
1,500 ft deep to find these beautiful
gems currently the golden jubilee
diamond is the biggest cut and faceted
diamond on Earth it weighs as much as a
chocolate bar and is a size of a hamster
its price is about $12
million now imagine a diamond the size
of an entire
planet now let's fly back to our solar
system our destination now is Jupiter's
moon Europa it's as wide as the distance
between Seattle and Houston and its mass
is less than 1% of the mass of Earth its
surface is enclosed in an icy crust
that's about 19 Mi thick Europa is
completely covered in water it's
freezing here three times colder than
that of the North Pole in Earth the
water turns to ice almost instantly but
the ocean beneath the surface is still
liquid Europa has a gravitational
relationship with Jupiter just like the
moon with the Earth this creates tidal
forces that heat europa's core which
then melts the ice around it the result
is a huge ocean two or three times
larger than that of Earth's oceans
combined scientists believe that water
is one of the essential ingredients for
life this means that life May exist on
Europa there could be thermal Springs
just like at the bottom of our oceans
though the water there is probably much
warmer and even though the pressure and
temperature in such places are likely to
be extreme simple bacteria could live
there Europa is almost the same age as
Earth so there has been enough time for
living organisms to appear and evolve
who knows maybe some Advanced
civilization is already blooming under
this crust of ice they might be building
big cities and dreaming of conquering
space but for now all we can do is
speculate and maybe someday send the
probe to Europa to find out if life is
possible
there dark mysterious cold space comets
asteroids planets stars and something
that that's lurking over there far
beyond Pluto Yep this could be the ninth
planet of our solar system the one
people have been wondering about for
centuries IRAs which stands for the
infrared astronomical satellite
collected interesting data back in 1983
it could be proof that planet 9 is
hiding there no one knows if it really
exists but this discovery helped to
build a model to understand this
potential Planet
better and in 2016 scientists found out
that some small space objects in the
Kyper belt we're orbiting a bit oddly
the Kyper belt is the outer area of our
solar system it's a ring in the shape of
a donut filled with leftovers from the
times when our solar system was forming
you can find this dut Beyond Neptune the
objects in that region of space have
weird orbits almost as if a big body
with strong gravity is pushing them away
knock knock Planet 9 again the theory
says it might be 5 to 10 times the mass
of our own planet and up to 20 times
further away than Neptune the
astronomical unit equals the distance
between our planet and the Sun Pluto is
approximately 40 astronomical units from
the Sun but Planet 9 if it exists is 400
to 800 astronomical units away it would
take 10,000 to 20,000 Earth years for
this mysterious planet to make a single
circle around the Sun this makes it
harder for us to catch the space body
there's a theory Planet 9 may have form
between the or orbits of Jupiter and
Neptune similar to the rest of the gas
giants in our solar system the
gravitational force of one of the two
huge planets probably kicked it out of
its orbit oh no then Planet 9 could get
ejected further away from the eight
planets we know about it ended up as
some sort of icy waste quite small at
the beginning but as time went by Planet
9 has cleared its orbit of Frozen pieces
of rock and dust and finally formed into
a real planet another theory says that
this could be a planet another star lost
on its way while it was passing near our
solar system in any case Planet 9
probably doesn't reflect that much
sunlight since it's so far away and
astronomers aren't sure where exactly
they should look for it space is dark
mysterious endless obviously but if we
do find Planet 9 it will be the first
solid proof there are more planets in
our solar system than we thought moving
on to an interesting exoplanet located
only 90 light away from us an exoplanet
is generally a planet located outside
our solar system this one has an
atmosphere with water clouds one year
there lasts 24 Earth days and the planet
travels around a red dwarf star which is
way dimmer and smaller than our side
that's why even though the planet is 8
times closer to its star than we are to
our sun the temperature there is similar
to that on our planet this exoplanet has
a size similar to Neptune it's also less
dense which means it's most mostly made
of gas unlike Earth which is made of
rock the average temperatures there is
140° which makes it one of the coolest
small exoplanets we've ever discovered
and the cooler the exoplanet is the
bigger the chance we'll find clouds in
its atmosphere researchers have
discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets
but all of them have been found within
the Milky Way at least until now for the
first time astronomers may have spotted
a planet outside our galaxy they called
it M51
uls1 the planet is located in the
whirlpool Galaxy a distant spiral galaxy
28 million light years away from us
there was once a huge but pretty young
star that got stuck in a gravitational
dance with something that could be a
dense neutron star the collapsed core of
a giant star or a black hole the star's
dance partner had incredibly strong
gravity it was feeding on the star
greedily ripping away its plasma then
something un usual happen an unknown
maybe even Saturn sized object passed by
and block this confrontation from our
solar system now no one can see what is
going on but this could potentially be
the farthest planet we've ever
discovered there's a newly discovered
planet outside our solar system as large
as Jupiter it orbits two stars and as we
can observe it from our planet it
crosses in front of them both the full
circle around these two stars which
means one year takes approximately 200
Earth days on the day of the discovery
of the previous Planet scientists also
found it had an unusual companion it's
an extra hot Jupiter with an ultratight
orbit around its star the year there
lasts only 1.9 Earth days this planet
has a weirdly shaped orbit also it
travels in the opposite direction from
the rotation of its star if you could
travel 57 light years away from our
planet you'd see something pink lurking
in the dark Darkness as you get closer
it becomes bigger and more fascinating
yep it's a magenta colored Planet a few
billion miles away from its Sun this guy
is one of the youngest planets
scientists have discovered it's only 100
to 200 million years old it's made of
pink gas similar to our Jupiter so if
you could fly closer to its surface this
gas would envelop you like a thick fog
you're coming closer and going deeper
and the gas is becoming darker getting a
reddish shade
and look at the planet's core it's super
hot because of its high temperature of
460° F this planet is like an oven the
heat is the reason the planet glows so
brightly you'll also notice the sky is
hazy pink with clouds made of droplets
of Frozen water similar to ours there is
another exoplanet half as massive as
Earth which is one of the smallest
planets we've ever found outside our
solar system it has a diameter of 5,600
Mi for comparon Earth's diameter is
7,900 Mi the planet in question is
mostly made of iron similar to Mercury
Mercury has a massive iron core and a
very thin crust which makes it an
oddball in our solar system at its early
stages it collided with some space body
at least once that Collision pulled its
outer layers away which is why only the
firm iron core remained maybe this
exoplanet participated in a huge space
crash too that's what probably took away
the planet's mantle and left mostly its
iron core or maybe this is just a
remnant of a gaseous planet that used to
be the size of Neptune the atmosphere of
the planet could be blown away by let's
say a huge amount of radiation coming
from the Star this planet is only 31
Lighty years away from us and the day
there is less than 8 Earth hours long
the planet is only a little bit bigger
than Mars people aren't likely to ever
settle in that place because of its
extreme temperatures that go up to 2
2,700 de F there might even be molten
lava on the side of the planet that
faces its star such temperatures are
high enough to evaporate any atmosphere
so this planet might have had one in the
past generally gas giants like Jupiter
can't support life because they have
extreme weather conditions temperature
and pressure and there are no building
blocks that might create life but
smaller terrestrial planets such as I
don't know Earth have more key
ingredients like oxygen and liquid water
plus they have more temperate weather
and other conditions and still not all
of such planets support life of course
it's not easy to find a planet with
similar conditions as the ones we have
on Earth or at least the conditions that
would allow life to develop there but
meet Kepler 22b one of our most
promising findings it's 600 light years
away from us twice bigger than our
planet and with temperatures of about
72° F this is a so-called super Earth
it's a c category of planets unlike any
we have in the solar system they're more
massive than Earth but still lighter
than ice giants such as Uranus or
Neptune super Earths can consist of rock
gas or a mixture of these two Kepler 22b
is within the habitable zone of its
parent star Which is less bright than
our side the planet probably has a rocky
core it may have an ocean but it doesn't
host any life at least we don't know
about it yet
you take a giant straw and begin to
inflate Saturn it's getting bigger and
bigger and bigger that's enough now
let's add some giant rings that's it
this is super Saturn also called Saturn
on steroids it's a real object that
scientists discovered in 2012 a planet
named
j1407b and astronomers are still not
sure what it really is it could be a gas
giant like Jupiter or Saturn in our
solar system then there would be no
solid surface there and if you wanted to
set foot on that planet you just fall
through it all the way to the core but
it could also be a brown dwarf that's
something between a large planet and a
full-fledged star such objects have to
be heavy enough to start thermonuclear
reactions like those going on inside
stars but the power of these reactions
is too weak for brown dwarfs to glow and
emit heat to imagine the size and weight
of
j1407b let's look at our Earth if you
put our planet on a scale it'll show six
in another 210 tons our planet is also
about 7,900 M
across now that's Jupiter the largest
planet in our solar system its diameter
is 11 times as great as that of Earth
it's also 318 times heavier if Jupiter
were a bucket you could put
1,321 Earths in it in this is the hero
of the day super Saturn it's almost 20
times as large as Jupiter to balance the
scales you need to put
6,360 Earths on the other side the
planet's rings are so wide that if they
were in the solar system they would take
up more than half the space between the
Sun and Earth and if super Saturn
switched places with the original Saturn
you'd see those rings with the uned eye
they would be larger than a full moon
presumably these Rings appeared in the
same way as the ones around our Saturn
one Theory says they're the remains of a
moon that was once there its orbit was
unstable and over time the moon got torn
apart by the tidal forces of the huge
Planet it orbited small pieces of the
former Moon took their places in the
giant orbit they collided with one
another like in a blender after some
time everything that was left was
basically particles of dust and Ice
moving around the Colossal Planet
another theory suggests that the ring
appeared after the moon collided with an
asteroid or another Moon then the
gravitational blender did its job and
turn the moon's debris into the Rings
some scientists think the Rings formed
at around the same time as the planet
itself so they're just the remains of
the planetary nebula which is a cloud of
gas space debris and dust later it
probably shrunk and solidified to form a
planet we can only guess where super
Saturn got its rings from but scientists
say their mass is 80% of that of Earth
it may mean that the moon that used to
orbit
j1407b was about the same size as our
planet there's a little Gap in the
middle of these Rings scientists think
Super Saturn's moon might be there if
this is the case it should be about the
size of Mars if scientists are right in
super Saturn is actually a brown dwarf
then this is an incredible Discovery
scientists will be able to watch it age
supposedly Brown dwarfs lose their
energy in shrink fading in the process
and when a brown dwarf exhausts all its
energy it turns into a black dwarf it's
easy to confuse it with a black hole
people haven't discovered black dwarfs
anywhere in the universe yet because
they take trillions and quadrillions of
years to form our universe is too young
in none of the Stars even those that
appeared when the universe was born have
had time to become black dwarfs one of
the oldest objects in the universe is
the white dwarf with a pretty long name
WD 0346 plus 246 it's about 11 to 12
billion years old and half as cold as
our sun and it's still cooling it would
need around 10 plus another 15 zeros
years to turn into a black dwarf for
comparison the universe is 1.4 in 10 Z
years old scientists believe that a
black dwarf will exist for about 10 plus
25 Z years feeding on Dark Matter after
that its protons the smallest particles
of matter will begin to Decay and then
the black dwarf will simply evaporate
that will take another 10 + 49 Z years
but if the protons remain intact a much
more interesting scenario will await the
black dwarf in another 10 and 1500 zeros
years the black dwarf will become an
iron star it's essentially just a
cannonball in Space the iron sphere will
exist billions of times longer than our
entire universe has existed until it
suddenly turns into a black hole so the
process of the formation of a black
dwarf is extremely long it take a
regular star an insane amount of time to
age that much but super Saturn if it is
a brown dwarf may be much closer to this
state Saturn on steroids is not the only
strange planet in our universe this is
blee
436b it's been detected using the
transit method a Transit happens when a
planet moves between its po star and an
observer it looks similar to a lunar
eclipse this planet is four times the
size of Earth and 22 times as heavy
that's almost like Neptune it's an
exotic Water World the water there is
solid but it's not ice it has a
temperature of about 520° F the water in
your pot turns into steam at 212° fight
but on Glee 436b the liquid remains
solid because of the extreme pressure on
the pl Planet scientists have also
discovered that the planet's atmosphere
is evaporating into outer space that's
why there's a giant circular Cloud
around it it's constantly moving in its
orbit giving the planet a long tail that
looks like that of a comet canre e holds
incredible riches worth more than all
the money on Earth there are diamonds
scattered all over the planet canre e is
about twice as wide and eight times as
heavy as Earth this planet doesn't
rotate only one of its sides always
faces its host star the surface
temperature there is almost twice as
high as the temperature of a burning
fire and since the host star is rich in
carbon the planet contains plenty of
this element too the intense pressure
and temperatures help turn carbon into
graphite and diamonds unfortunately this
planet is 40 light years away from our
home so it take about 730,000 years to
get there on a regular rocket another
planet rich in gems is hat p7 B it's
about 1,000 light years away from Earth
it's 60% as large and nearly twice as
heavy as Jupiter the planet is so close
to its host star that it makes one
revolution around it in just two Earth
days because of such close proximity to
the star hat p7b is almost as hot as a
white
dwarf if you look at the night side of
this planet you'll see unusual clouds
scientists believe that these clouds may
be rich in corundum material this this
is the very substance that forms rubies
and sapphires so it's likely to rain
very expensive and beautiful gems there
wasp 12b is one of the darkest planets
ever discovered only one of its sides
faces its host star the planet surface
is so dark that it eats up about 94% of
all visible light so it looks a lot like
a black hole the host star heats up the
planet so much that the material there
continuously evaporates then the Stars
strong gravity pulls This Cloud toward
itself forming a disc but T s2b is the
champion it's the darkest planet known
to people it absorbs 99% of the light
coming from its star which means it
consumes more light than a piece of coal
1% of the remaining light looks red as
it gets reflected by this gas giant from
afar this planet looks very evil one of
the oldest planets in the universe is
PSR b1620 26b it's about 12.7 billion
years old this means that it Formed
about 1 billion years after the big bang
the planet is so old that it's two host
stars have had time to evolve one is a
white dwarf the other is a pulsar that
makes almost 100 revolutions per second
sunrises on this planet must be stunning
right now this star system is moving
toward a dense cluster of stars this is
likely to lead to a stellar Collision so
the fate of this planet is unknown
438b is one of the most earthlike
planets it's only 12% larger and is in
the habitable zone of its host star not
too close and not too far away it's a
sweet spot where water doesn't evaporate
because of the Heat and doesn't turn
into ice because of the cold this planet
might host life on its surface in the
future it may also become a new home for
Humanity but it would take people about
470 years to get to this planet even if
we traveled at the speed of of Light
which is impossible due to the law of
physics our solar system might have some
more planets up its sleeve we know about
eight official planets but they're not
the only ones that survived the chaotic
formation of our solar system 4.5
billion years ago astronomers say there
are three categories of planets in our
solar system we are in the first one the
four rocky inner planets Mercury Venus
Earth and Mars that peacefully orbit the
sun they're located within the main
asteroid belt that separates Mars from
Jupiter which is in category number two
that one's a group of planets in the
outer solar system the gas giants
Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune these
planets have huge amounts of ice and gas
around what scientists believe to be
their Rocky cores the third group lies
beyond the area where our local planets
are somewhere further than Neptune it's
the realm where you'll find dwarf
planets such as as Pluto ays and sedna
and many smaller space bodies like
comets but new findings say there could
be something else lurking in the dark
besides dwarf planets and Tiny space
bodies maybe even a new
planet models scientists made say that
our solar system used to have one or
more rocky planets the size of mars or
Earth over time these Rocky Wanderers
interacted with the wide gravity fields
of our gas giants this kicked them into
a far far out orbit away from the
neighborhood the question is if one of
those mars-sized planets survived and
could really be somewhere out there
scientists have made simulations to see
what potentially happened these showed
that in half of such cases where planets
interact with the gravity of gas giants
they get ejected into Interstellar space
in the remaining half there's this one
Rogue Planet left in an orbit similar to
the ones the Kyper belt objects are
following there's only one left to do
now find it astronomers found the
loneliest planet in the universe they
were trying to find distant brown dwarf
stars or failed Stars ones that never
become massive enough to start shining
stars are born with big masses which
means they also have strong self-gravity
the star squeezes in on itself that
causes high internal temperatures and
enables the star to shine but instead
they found a Lonely Wanderer cfbd sir
2149 the planet is between 50 and 120
million years old and has a surface
temperature of 750° f compared to Stars
that's cold at first scientists thought
it could be a brown dwarf star but in
that case it would be way older this
starless planet floats around through
space passing only 130 Lighty years away
from our planet our galaxy The Milky Way
is 100,000 Lighty years wide so that's
relatively close the lonely traveler is
actually a gas giant four to seven times
bigger than Jupiter maybe it was kicked
out from its own solar system because of
gravitational forces or getting into
another planet's orbit or it was formed
away from its parent Star Far Beyond
Pluto on the edge of our solar system
there's a space body about as big as
Pluto but a little bit colder and way
denser it's probably a big Rocky body
covered in a thin icy mantle it's the
dwarf planet
ays both Pluto and ays occupy the Kyper
belt which is the distant ring of frigid
space bodies that lies Beyond Neptune a
day there lasts 25.9 hours pretty
similar to Earth but ays circles our sun
in the distance three times farther than
Pluto which means its year is pretty
long 557 Earth years ays has a bright
icy surface it's one of the most
reflective bodies in our solar system it
bounces back more than 95% of the light
that strikes it somewhere out there even
farther there's a super Saturn
j1407b much larger than Jupiter or
Saturn it's an exoplanet which means a
planet that orbits a star other than our
sun super Saturn is 434 light years away
from Earth in the constellation of
Centaurus it's the only exoplanet we
know about with rings similar to Saturn
it actually has a huge ring system 200
times bigger than Saturn's rings there
are more than 30 Rings each of them tens
of millions of miles in diameter there
are gaps in the Rings which means there
could be some interesting satellites
exomoons around if this super Saturn
could swap places with our regular
Saturn its rings would absolutely
dominate our Sky you could look up and
easily see them the view would be
amazing because they would appear much
bigger than a full moon
scientists have found thousands of
planets outside of our solar system some
are dense as iron While others are airy
and light and then there's the Water
World gj1214b a steamy world bigger than
Earth and smaller than Uranus 40 light
years away from us in the constellation
of ofius it's a watery Planet surrounded
by a thick atmosphere 2.7 times Earth's
diameter and almost seven times heavier
than our home planet it was most likely
formed somewhere farther from its star
where there was plenty of water ice but
later migrated to where it is today its
surface temperature is 440° f which is
too hot to host life like on Earth it
also has much less Rock and much more
water than our planet imagine a planet
with no land but only endless oceans
covering all of its surface High
pressures and temperatures would form
things like super fluid water or hot ice
some pretty exotic materials that we
can't see on our planet gisa
436b it's a neptun sized exoplanet 30
light years away from our planet in the
constellation of Leo it makes one full
orbit around its star in a little more
than 2 days this planet defies the laws
of physics it orbits its star gisa 436
which is smaller cooler and less
luminous than our sun at a distance 15
times closer than Mercury is to the Sun
when we typically think of ice we
picture a frozen Cube but this planet
has an icy surface even though the
temperature there is 980 de F this
temperature is way above the melting
point but the ice remains solid and
burning hot this happens because of very
strong gravity it compresses the water
vapor in the atmosphere into solid ice
the pressure here doesn't allow the ice
to melt no matter how hot the surface is
now imagine being on a mysterious planet
and it suddenly starts raining Sapphires
and rubies one distant exoplanet Pat p7b
a gas giant 1,000 Lighty years away from
Earth in the constellation of sness and
16 times bigger has specific weather and
pretty violent storms rubies and
sapphires are scattered across the
planet when it's raining on the planet's
night side there's a high amount of
corundum in the atmosphere and corundum
is what mineral gems such such as
Sapphires and rubies are made of clouds
of corundum give such an amazing view
the planet is plagued by severe winds
that often turn into powerful storms
that push huge masses of those clouds
across the planet although the planet is
uninhabitable it would certainly be cool
to come there and pick up some gems
still the weather is pretty wild plus
the temperatures are over 4600 de fah by
comparison Venus is the hottest planet
in our solar system and its temperature
is only 900° F looking over the
expansive space you can see a beautiful
little blue dot in the endless Darkness
it's an exoplanet HD
189733b that lies 63 light years from us
in the constellation of
vpaula but it's way hotter and larger
than our planet around the size of
Jupiter and it completes its orbit
around its host star in only 2.2 Earth
days that orbit is so close that the
planet is most likely tidily locked that
means it's always showing only one face
to its star like our moon always shows
one side to Earth the weather here is
crazy the winds blow at up to 5400 mph
which is 7 times the speed of sound the
fastest wind on Earth only hit the mark
of 230 mph and it gets better the rain
here is not made of water but of molten
glass clouds are made of silicate atoms
and particles they are the key elements
that gives the planet its cobalt blue
color not the reflection of oceans which
is the case with Earth Earth used to be
purple today even when you look at our
planet from space you see a lot of green
the green we see in nature is there
because of photosynthesis the process
where plants transform energy coming
from the Sun into energy they need to
live and to produce oxygen for us the
main part of the process that gives
plants the green color is the
chlorophyll pigment a long time ago
instead of chlorophyll there was a
molecule called retinol its pigments
absorb yellow and green light and turn
it into red and blue so the Earth was
more purple and then there's a pink
planet gj504b far away from us in the
Virgo constellation four times more
massive than Jupiter it's a newly formed
exoplanet around 160 million years old
by comparison the Earth is 4.5 billion
years old if we could go there we would
see an incredible world world that glows
from the heat of its formation
everything around you would be colored
magenta ah Earth home the third Blue
Rock From the Sun the only known planet
where life can Thrive we have around 78%
nitrogen 21% oxygen and 1% argon water
vapor and carbon dioxide give or take
the perfect balance to support our
respiration the troposphere is the
lowest and densest part of Earth's
atmosphere 5 to 9 Mi thick it's the part
of the atmosphere that keeps changing
our weather for any life to exist we
would need this atmosphere and the same
combination of gases to breathe if all
the planets in our solar system were
combined to become a mega Earth then
humans wouldn't have evolved the way we
are today and we'd have a very different
planet if we take the landscape of Mars
we'll only have solid land without large
bodies of water Earth is the only planet
in our solar system with bodies of water
one of the first wonders to see will be
Olympus Mons the largest volcano in the
solar system it Towers Mount Everest by
a long shot at 78,000 ft above the
ground vus Marinis is a group of canyons
that make the Grand Canyon in the US
feel like a average one this Wonder
stretches for almost 2500 miles and goes
more than 4 M deep on top of these epic
terrains there's plenty of other Grand
scale ations on Mars that are way bigger
than the ones on Earth the planet might
be as large as Jupiter if the Earth were
the size of a grape then Jupiter would
be the size of a
basketball we'd have the size of Jupiter
and the rings of Saturn floating around
us the Rings may seem like some large
chunks of rock in the air but they're
actually ice particles and chunks of
iced rocks they range from the size of
Pebbles to car sized ones Saturn's rings
are supported by the unique gravity in
the region with a lot of these ice rocks
floating in the sky there won't be much
sunlight entering the planet which means
the planet will always be colder than
usual not to mention the many moons it
has our Mega Planet could also have many
moons circling above us contributing to
the tidal
waves Jupiter is known for the red spot
a place twice the size of Earth that has
hurricane-like storms that have been
going on for hundreds of years the
people of Mega Earth will settle far
away from it
Mercury is a planet but looks like the
moon due to all the craters lying around
that's because of many asteroids and
comets striking it over billions of
years but the landscape here mainly
consists of mountains Highlands Cliffs
and valleys the caloris Basin is almost
1,000 Mi wide they believe it was formed
by a comet the deserts on Earth are
mainly hot and consist of Dunes of sand
but they also have flat Plains and small
hills the largest desert in the world is
the whole Antarctic continent mercury
has no atmosphere to trap any heat so it
gets really hot when the sun is facing
it and freezing cold when the planet
turns away from it on this combined Mega
Earth the desert will most likely have a
similar landscape to that of
mercury the animals living here will
probably be something like giant
scorpions and desert snakes that soak in
some sun during the day and go out
hunting at night but the soaring day
temperatures would melt anyone walking
and even though Mercury is the closest
planet to the sun it's not the
hottest Venus has temperatures of nearly
900° F scientists believe that the lands
here are flat because of the extreme
temperatures but it's not all flat with
some volcanoes and Highland
areas we can probably find this Terrain
in climate near the equator since it's
always hot there humans can't live there
unless they build Special domes to
sustain life but since the planet is not
now huge not all its territory needs to
be populated some areas will have the
proper atmosphere for breathing but some
places might not have such
luxuries over at the poles the climate
will most likely mimic Pluto even though
it's not technically a planet anymore in
2006 they officially declared it a dwarf
planet and it's even smaller than the
moon there's not much known about this
little mini floating Rock except that
it's composed of around 70% Rock and 30%
ice scientists believe that a part of
its surface is covered in Frozen
nitrogen solid methane and carbon
dioxide since the mega planet is huge
gravity might be quite strong here
Jupiter's gravity is enough to double
your weight humans will most likely be
really tall and mega sized to match the
Big Planet even the oceans will be huge
our oceans will look like little Lakes
compared to what Mega Earth has in store
for us
humans need something close to 24 hours
in a single day our bodies adjusted to
it quite well but it wouldn't affect us
too much if the day had a few extra
hours or a few hours less we can't live
on any other planet without wearing the
proper gear we wouldn't last more than a
few seconds in places like Jupiter
Neptune and Saturn it's possible to last
as long as you can hold your breath on
Mars the atmosphere is thin and the
gravity is similar to ours but you might
freeze even though it's a red planet
it's actually very cold and has ice caps
in the poles covered with carbon
dioxide the same's true for mercury you
can only last there as long as you can
hold your breath and be in The Sweet
Spot between the sunrise and the
sunset ancient civilizations wouldn't
have been as diverse as they were on
Earth since the extreme terrains and
conditions wouldn't have allowed for
Discovery and training but eventually as
humans develop special Technologies for
certain areas different cultures would
emerge many animals would also evolve in
specific and unique ways but because of
the planet's enormous size isolation and
being on top of the food chain would let
certain animals be around since the
beginning of the planet without evolving
so it's possible that this Mega Earth
might have ancient dinosaurs roaming
around and they'd be even bigger than
the ones on
Earth and even though there's a high
chance that some humans might be
physically different than than each
other there might even be more than one
species of humans living on opposite
ends of the planet because of the
isolation they evolved in their own ways
according to their surroundings over the
centuries technological advancements
would spread different cultures around
and we'd be more open to each other
neanderthals and Homo sapiens once live
side by side and were considered as the
two species of humans the Andals were
intelligent and used tools for hunting
and drawing Homo sapiens were survivors
and wandered around to discover new land
there could be two dominant human
species and other minor ones that live
in certain areas on Mega Earth they'd be
bigger tougher and faster than us the
ones who live by the trees would have
elongated limbs to stretch out and swing
from tree to tree the ones that live in
savanas will probably run really fast
and have long legs for
that countries and cities will be bigger
than what we have on regular Earth a
country can be as big as Earth itself
the human population can reach tens of
billions special transportation
technology might be invented for people
to travel from one continent to another
covering those distances can take months
or even years if using regular aircraft
high-speed trains that travel so fast
over land and Rocket likee planes going
through the sky traveling through oceans
will require extremely sturdy ships
traveling through the Atlantic Ocean is
already PR scary for many so imagine
going on a voyage across a body of water
that's potentially 8 times the size of
Earth we're going to need a bigger boat
there'll be areas to avoid like the red
spot with its Perpetual storms raging on
but the tourist industry might have some
room for anyone who wants to see it
living on such a huge planet is unlikely
going to become a reality for most of us
anytime soon but scientists are already
discussing moving to other planets to
find a new home for humans
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