Bizarre New Planets have Scientists SHOCKED

 

deep space the final frontier humanity's desire to find more earth-like planets which could be teeming with life has led us to discover many exoplanets and we are continuously improving and evolving our means to find more outer planets in the galaxy out there although we haven't found any exoplanets with life yet we have found some strange ones that defy our knowledge of space and galaxy entirely welcome to fact nominal let's look at five of the most bizarre exoplanets that should not exist but do the whiplash planet located around 103 light years from our solar system in the virgo constellation hr518 is the biggest wild card exoplanet that we have discovered classified as a super jupiter for

 having a mass of about three jupiters

 hr5183b has a highly eccentric orbit while most planets trace out a circular orbit more or less maintaining the same distance from the host star throughout the orbit this gas giant traces out an egg-shaped orbit around its parent star hr51a3 this unusual and wonky orbit has given hr5183b its trademark name the whiplash planet astronomers discovered this exoplanet by the tiny wobble its gravity causes upon its parent star which in turn causes a dip in brightness the process took an astounding 20 years of observations with three telescopes including hawaii's wm keck observatory all thanks to its uncanny orbit and even after such a long study we still do not have enough data to calculate the full orbit of hr5183b scientists have predicted that the planet's orbit could be between 45 to 100 earth years long and the general consensus agrees upon an average of 74 earth years for a relatable comparison if hr5183b was a part of our solar system the closest end of its orbit in relation to the sun would be somewhere before jupiter and then on the other end it would fling past neptune to the utmost outer edges of our planetary system though we certainly have found cosmic bodies with highly eccentric orbits hr5183b stands out for having such a long orbit and not being as close to its host stars as the other objects found with an eccentric orbit the runaway planet when we think of a planet we usually think of a rocky terrestrial body an ice giant or a gas giant revolving around a host's star however not every planet is lucky to have a parent star some unfortunate ones are supposed to go rogue when they lose their parents against the d d trope of rogues

 being an orphan is indeed true

 astronomers believe that our galaxy could be packed with orphan exoplanets exoplanets that must have broken free from their parent stars to wander the milky way alone these planets begin as an obedient ward to their host stars but because of some anomaly must have been flung away out of their planetary system has exoplanets are usually spotted through the gravitational waves or shadow cast by them on their host stars

 it is nearly impossible for us to locate a rogue planet rocky rogue planets with the size of earth are considered extra hard to be spotted because of being very small in size and having no method of casting light or a perceptible shadow one might say it's almost impossible to find them that is why ogle 2016 blg 1928 can be considered a rogue planet that beat the impossible it is the smallest rogue planet to be discovered as of yet and was spotted in late 2020 using a technique called gravitational micro lensing gravitational microlensing helps to find a cosmic entity by deflection and focusing of light from a distant star as an object passes in front of it the duration of the change in the light profile of these distant sources increases

 with the mass of the intervening object

 ogle 2016 blg 1928 caused a disturbance in the light profile that only lasted about 41 minutes this made ogle 2016 blg 1928 the smallest rogue ever spotted by astronomers using gravitational micro lensing needless to say we are cheering for this little dude venturing the galaxy on its own organized chaos technically this entry on the list of impossible planets isn't exactly a planet but a whole planetary system should it still be counted well we'll leave that up to you at first glance toi 178 may appear like your regular planetary system with everything in order however a closer and prolonged study of the planetary system reveals a shocking secret at least five of this system's six worlds are locked in a rhythmic dance with each other about 205 light years away from earth toi 178 is a planetary system in the constellation sculptor the planetary system was confirmed by data provided by five different planet search projects tess provided early clues about this interesting stellar system and with additional observations were provided by cheops espresso ngts and speculoos scientists were able to refine measurements and confirm that what we were seeing wasn't unreal the five outer planets exist in an interesting ratio of resonance the first exoplanet in the chain that is the second closest to the star completes 18 orbits at the same time as the second in the chain and overall the third closest to the star completes nine the third completes six orbits in the same amount of time and the fourth completes four and the fifth which would be the sixth planet overall will complete three orbits this means that the planets align at regular intervals as they orbit their orange dwarf host star sanchez preserved and complex chain of residents is evident that this planetary system has somehow survived this long without any disturbance from gravitational interactions or collisions with other systems since it's highly odd formation such a well-preserved and untouched system could be crucial in the study of how planetary systems form and evolve but oddly enough the orderly state of how this planetary system functions is not mirrored in the formation of its planets these planets have sizes ranging from about one to three times the size of earth while their masses are 1.5 to 30 times the mass of earth there is a planet as dense as the earth right next to a very fluffy planet with half the density of neptune this is way too chaotic than any other planetary system we have discovered and observed until now shine bright leica 55 cancery is an inhospitable smoking hot planet that is so close to its star that it takes less than 18 earth hours to complete one revolution of its orbit the temperature on this planet that is twice as big and about eight and a half times heavier than the earth is as high as 4172 degrees fahrenheit or 2300 degrees celsius the scorching planet orbits a sun-like star 55 can serie a and was recently discovered back in 2004. formerly known as jansen this exoplanet is perhaps made of the most conventionally valuable object in the universe the large disparity between its size and mass has had astronomers believe that this super earth could be composed of high pressurized carbon in the form of graphite and diamond mixed with some iron and other elements if we talk in fiscal terms the estimated value of this diamond planet is estimated to be more than 360 quadrillion times the entire earth's gross domestic product or gdp of 85 trillion dollars astrophysicist suggests that such diamond worlds could form fairly regularly when

 protoplanetary dust clouds that contained high ratios of carbon collapse to form planets however don't pack your bags just yet to go mine this planet scientists have been challenging the idea of 55 cancer e being a diamond planet and both sides have produced some strong arguments this has led to the diamond planet

 theory moving in and out of favor

 maybe james bond wasn't right about diamonds being forever planets are the new trendy planets a few years ago a phenomenal movie called interstellar gave us some amazing visuals and a very thrilling space sequence set in the foreground of a black hole the science fiction movie tackled a lot of burning questions about earth's environment how black holes work and what the future of humanity would be in the universe but it also featured one odd concept that people weren't normally aware of till then planets revolving around a black hole a planet with a black hole as its parent or in short a planets is the most extreme exoplanet that one can imagine planets are formed from the gravitational collapse of over-dense protoplanetary clouds of gas or dust black holes with their immensely powerful gravitational pull usually have such resources and materials swirling around them although sadly we haven't found any such planets or black hole hosted exoplanet and therefore cannot confirm that they actually exist the math doesn't disagree with their possibility recent research modeling the dynamics of disks of gas and dust in active galactic nuclei does suggest that under certain conditions planet formation should occur in such regions around black holes if the math is indeed possible we would find planets forming much further out from supermassive black holes concerning how far planets form from their hosts stars the distance between a planet and its host black star would be so massive that the planet could take about a million years to complete one orbit it is also theorized that the formation of a planet due to the gravitational pull of a black hole would impact the planet's properties this means black hole hosted planets would be capable of reaching sizes of titanic proportions these exoplanets will need a class of their own as they won't fit anywhere between gas giants ice giants and terrestrial worlds like earth however the discovery of a planet would have to wait as the nearest active galactic nuclei is still beyond the limits of how far we can look for exoplanets but if we found one what do you think it would look like tell us in the comments if you would like us to explore more impossible planets in the galaxy and as always thanks for reading fact nominal