BIZARRE THINGS YOU CAN ONLY FIND IN OUTER SPACE
Added on: 16th Oct 2015
DARK MATTER
One of the greatest mysteries in modern astrophysics, the dark
matter is a hypothetical kind of matter that cannot be seen with
telescopes but is thought to account for most (about 85 percent)
of the matter in the universe.
GIANT WATER RESERVOIR
Located some 10 billion light years away, the enormous water vapour
cloud is estimated to hold up to 140 trillion times the mass of water
found in all Earth´s oceans.
RED DWARF
Relatively small and cold, red dwarfs are the most common stars in the
Milky Way, accounting for up to three quarters of the stars in the galaxy.
The nearest to the Sun (just about 4.3 light years) and probably the most
famous red dwarf is Proxima Centauri.
ROGUE PLANETS
Also known as interstellar planets, nomad planets or orphan planets,
rogue planets are planetary-mass objects that have broken from their
orbits and travel aimlessly through space. The closest rogue planet to Earth
yet discovered is around 7 light years away.
CORONAL CLOUD
Usually made up of protons, radioactive material, and intensely fast
winds, the coronal cloud is a cloud of hot plasma gas surrounding a
coronal mass ejection. After the ejection, the cloud can reach Earth
and cause damage to electrical equipment and space satellites.
HOT ICE PLANET
Officially known as Gliese 436 b, the hot ice planet is a Neptune-sized
exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 436. Although the temperature
of the planet reaches 439 C (712 K), its watery surface doesn’t evaporate.
Instead, the molecules form a kind of hot, high-pressured ice.
PULSAR
A pulsar is a dense highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits
a beam of electromagnetic radiation. In the past, astronomers thought
the radiation, which can be observed when it is pointing toward
Earth, was an alien form of communication.
SUPERGIANT
Almost everything in space is unimaginably big and the supergiant,
as the name suggests, is no exception. Supergiants are among the
most massive and most luminous stars, about ten times more
massive and up to a million times more luminous than the Sun.
MAGNETAR
A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic
field. Hundreds of millions of times stronger than any man-made magnet,
the magnetar´s magnetic field could strip information from the magnetic
stripes of all credit cards on Earth from as far as halfway to the Moon.
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