Something Strange is Surrounding Our Solar System.. | 10 INSANE Space Discoveries

 

  the workings of  space for the uninformed observer are a  complete  mystery to the naked eye it seems like  an endless sea of emptiness littered  with stars  however our modern civilization has been  able to make incredible discoveries  about how space works  and some of the things you may find in  it  welcome to fact nominal and today we're  dishing out the details in  10 incredible scientific discoveries  beyond our own celestial neighborhood  in something strange is surrounding our  solar system  number 10 quasars  like most things in the universe quasars  are not completely understood by  scientists yet  but they are estimated to be the  brightest objects in the universe  quasars existed in areas where there is  a supermassive black hole  which helps power them up by  accelerating particles to the speed of  light  the term quasar originated as a  contraction of quasi-stellar radio  source  because quasars were first identified  during the 1950s  as sources of radio wave emission of  unknown physical origin  the energy emitted by these bright  massive balls of light  is greater than the energy of all stars  combined  if we could somehow harness this energy  it could open up many possibilities in  terms of  alternative energy number nine  wormholes while they only exist in  theory  wormholes are just about the most  fascinating theoretical object in our  universe  the subject of sci-fi lore and fantasy  fiction  wormholes are just as the name suggests  a worm-like tunnel with two ends at  separate points  in space-time these holes are consistent  with the general theory of relativity by  einstein but  whether they actually exist remains to  be  seen now it's theorized that a wormhole  could potentially connect  extremely long distances making an  instantaneous bridge between a  destination  billions of light-years away but it's  also thought that these same wormholes  could connect to different universes or  even different points in time this last  possibility has opened up discussion on  whether or not wormholes could be used  for time travel  another theory suggests that wormholes  could exist on the opposite side of a  black hole's event horizon which brings  up  even more questions where  does it lead number eight  life on venus the possibility of life on  venus has been studied for many years  but theories decreased significantly  since the 1960s  but a new theory has since surfaced  research published in september 2020  indicated the detection  of phosphine in venus's atmosphere by  the alma telescope  that was not linked to any abiotic  method of  production this means that it was most  likely generated by  life on the planet venus this theory has  sparked much discussion  in the scientific community and some  controversy  despite this nasa is in the beginning  stages of sending a future mission to  venus  this mission would carry radar to view  through the clouds  and get new images of its surface the  mission would not be set up for future  human habitation of venus  due to the surface temperature of the  planet being a toasty  460 degrees  however it's still important in  advancing the study of life  on other planets seven dark  energy and dark matter  the concepts of dark matter and dark  energy are still not completely  understood by the scientific community  and a large amount of information is  still unavailable due to technical  limitations  it's really hard to study something you  can't measure observe  or quantify however it is known that  dark matter is involved in the  acceleration of the expansion of our  universe  without this unseen matter galaxies  would fly apart  or would not have formed in the first  place it is also known that dark matter  comprises 95 percent of the  stuff in our universe making only five  percent of the universe perceivable now  if this is accurate it means  we know less than five percent about the  universe we live in  six explanations for vacuum in space  space is almost a perfect vacuum full of  cosmic voids  but why in short gravity is to blame  but to really understand the vacuum of  our universe we have to take a moment to  understand what a vacuum really is  and what it isn't first of all forget a  vacuum cleaner as an analogy for space  a vacuum cleaner fills itself with dirt  and dust with suction  while vacuum is the opposite the vacuum  of space  is devoid of matter not because of  suction but because it's  nearly empty so how does  gravity factor into this as  gravitational hot spots like planets and  stars pull in nearby matter  the space between them is evacuated  creating what's known  as a cosmic void after the big bang the  matter in the universe was dispersed  more uniformly like a fog  but after billions of years the matter  got closer and closer together  making gravitational hot spots and  turning space  into a vacuum so there you have it an  explanation  for why space is a vacuum number five  exoplanets  exoplanets are planets in the universe  that orbit stars other than the sun  of our own solar system this space  discovery seems basic but it's fairly  recent since  for many millennia people believed that  the earth was the only planet  when the heliocentric model of the earth  was accepted it was still unknown that  other planets existed outside the solar  system  but the discovery of exoplanets opened  up the avenue for further explanation of  space  and triggered people's interest in going  beyond our solar system  specifically it has given birth to a  discussion about whether or not there  are inhabitable planets beyond our solar  system  sure there are planets like mars that  humans could live on with  enough effort but many planets have been  found albeit light years away  that could easily sustain human life  containing the elements we need to  survive  thus exoplanets are an ever-changing and  exciting  frontier for scientific discovery 4.  baby photos of a solar system scientists  at the university of arizona have  discovered what might be the closest  thing to  baby photos of our solar system  the young star called hd hd-95086  is found to have two dust belts close in  makeup to the asteroid and kuiper belts  in the solar system surrounded by a  large dust halo  that only young planetary systems have  similar dust structures  also are found around another slightly  older star called hr8799  the age of these systems spans about 10  to 90 million years  which is an interesting period for a  planetary system  during this time period terrestrial  planets form and  giant planets settle down to their final  configuration  thus the hd 95086 and hr8799 systems  are snapshots of what our solar systems  might have looked like around this age  scientists are now trying to discover  all the planets in the hd-95086 system  seeing it as a prime candidate for  imaging campaigns  knowing where additional planets could  be and how massive they are in hd-95086  is of great advantage for scientists who  are looking for the dim  signatures of planets near a bright star  number three asteroids and comets  asteroids and comets are small bodies  found in the universe  while they may appear to be the same  there is a significant difference  between the two  while asteroids are comprised of rock  and metal comets mostly consist of ice  but why are they important to study  one theory suggests that life on earth  originated when some forms of life were  introduced onto the planet by an  asteroid  this makes studying asteroids and comets  important to understanding how life  formed and died on this planet asteroids  specifically  are important due to their  representation of the bits and pieces  left over  from the process that formed the inner  planets including earth  asteroids that have hit the earth have  been subject to important chemical and  physical analyses  all this combined make comets and  asteroids some of the most important  discoveries in the study of space  to the light year chances are  you have heard that distances in space  are measured in light years  one light year is the distance a beam of  light travels in a year  and this is equal to about 9.5  trillion kilometers since distances in  space are too large to be measured using  conventional measurements  the discovery of the light year as unit  of measurement has made this task more  manageable  it is greatly simplified space research  since large distances can now be  expressed as much smaller numbers  number one big bang echo  in 2001 scientists began trying to map  the echo  left behind from the big bang they  achieved this  by mapping the cosmic background  radiation radiation is left over from  the big bang and  hangs in the air like static in the  forms of microwaves  by mapping the changes in this radiation  scientists were able to determine the  exact  age of our universe and determined that  96  of it is made up of mass not visible to  the human eye  this has led to the discovery of dark  matter  and the subsequent discussion that has  come from it the universe was determined  to be about  13.73 billion  years old using this method of mapping  cosmic background radiation