![]() The brilliantly preserved front half of a 110-million-year-old armored dinosaur-bony plates, scales, and all-surprised and delighted scientists after it was accidentally unearthed in 2011 by a heavy equipment operator working in an Alberta oil sands mine. Stunning details of an armored dinosaur’s last meal “It’s extremely puzzling,” Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator of the InSight mission, told National Geographic in February. Perhaps the geology underneath the lander amplifies one particular tone, or the lander itself might even be generating the noise. But the music of Mars reverberates at a higher pitch than most natural hums on Earth. Earth has many such background vibrations, from the roar of winds to the crashing of waves against the shore. Among these curiosities is a Martian hum- a quiet, constant drone that seems to pulse to the beat of “marsquakes” that rattle the planet. Known as the InSight lander, the robotic geologist recently beamed some of its early findings back to Earth, exciting and perplexing scientists around the world. In November 2018, a spacecraft arrived on Mars’s frigid, dusty surface to take the planet’s pulse. Mars is humming, and scientists aren’t sure why ![]() You could fit five billion suns inside this monster star, and still have room for more left over! UY Scuti is the large red star in the center.Please be respectful of copyright. This star is the largest star in our galaxy. What primordial black hole might look like. These strange objects were formed not when a star collapses, but just from different distributions of matter during the big bang. These monstrous black holes formed when the universe was just tenths of a second old. Scientists think that this could be neutron stars, but we have no solid evidence. These high energy signals are the equivalent to our thump in the night: we have no clue what made them, we just know that they are there. In fact, this gap is so large, you can see another galaxy behind it! We have no clue how this galaxy has evolved. This strange galaxy has almost all of its blue stars in a ring, while the older, redder stars lie in the center. Volcanic eruptions constantly destroy the crust, while sulfur plumes turn the entire surface yellow! The warped surface of Io. Although it is our moon’s twin in size, it could not be more different. This moon is so close to Jupiter that it is constantly crushed and reformed by Jupiter’s enormous gravity. Number six is a little closer to home, the jupiterian moon Io. These antenna galaxies show exactly what will happen when our galaxies will collide. In five billion years, the andromeda galaxy will collide with our own galaxy. These galaxies are a living preview of our destruction. It used to be thought that it was the most massive star in the universe, but we now know that it is a pair of orbiting stars, both almost a hundred times as big as the sun! Apparently, this did not even form a regular shape, but instead a nebula that looks like a peanut. In fact, it became so bright that it was also emitting as much light as a supernova! But instead of burning out, it kept on going. This star has been dimming for decades, but then suddenly became bright again. ![]() Some things look weird, other things have not so visually obvious strange traits, others just have bad behavior. Number four is Eta Carinae and the Homunculus Nebula. From the planet, looking at the star, the star would be no bigger than a speck of dust, but would be 10 times brighter than our sun! What the pulsar might look like from the planet. We really have no clue how that planet got there. Why is that so cool? When a pulsar forms, it explodes so powerfully that anything around it is turned to dust and blasted into deep space. This planet, PSR B1257+12, is the only known planet to be orbiting a pulsar. The Fermi Bubble above and below the galaxy. These bubbles are enormous, taking up half the sky, and are almost 7 million degrees Fahrenheit! Scientists have reached a common expression on what has caused this: “We have no idea”. If they were centered in the galaxy, then we could explain them, but these bubbles are tangent to the galaxy in an hourglass shape. As you can see from the picture below, these bubbles emanate above and below the galaxy. In November 2010, the Fermi Gamma-ray telescope discovered these strange bubbles. The only one that we know of in the entire universe is called HV 2112. Although these objects would appear to be almost normal, they would house all sorts of strange elements that would never appear in a regular star. These objects form when a pulsar worms its way into the body of a different star. ![]() Thorne-Zytkow objectįirst is a Thorne-Zytkow object. This is a list of what I consider to be the top ten coolest things in space! 1. ![]()
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