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BIZARRE THINGS YOU CAN ONLY FIND IN OUTER SPACE

Added on: 16th Oct 2015

 

 

DARK MATTER

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

Space 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

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

Rogue planet

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

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

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

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

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

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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