STRANGE Space Discoveries that Left Astronomers Worried

 

ever wondered what would happen if one day a giant wormhole opens up and thousands of creepy looking alien insects swarm into our galaxy well we don't know if anything like that will ever take place but after everything that happened in 2020 we cannot really strike it off the menu yet if you consider yourself a space cowboy and get high on the high octane nightmare fuel scattered around the universe we have the perfect fix for you today stay tuned to know the craziest scariest and creepiest stuff discovered in space that even left the astronomers jumping out of their seats number 10 ghost hand of god if you thought that witches ghosts and ghouls only haunted people on our planet you'd be caught dead wrong mister in this photo which looks like an interstellar x-ray you can see that there is a glowing green zombie-like hand reaching through the depths of space to grab a bright red cloud of light looking at this picture we can't help but think is this a giant space zombie grabbing some dinner not quite nasa calls this nebula the hand of god it is actually a pulsar wind nebula produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova if you want to trick your annoying younger brother on halloween we recommend scaring him with this picture number nine being ghosted by a star if you think being ghosted by your ex-boyfriend was painful enough think how it feels after being ghosted by an actual star about 75 million miles away in the kinman dwarf galaxy there was a luminous blue variable star that made its presence known with an incredible light signature which was 2.5 billion times stronger than the sun that is until it didn't it was last cited in 2011 but when astronomers went to study it less than a decade later it had simply vanished without a trace normally you'd expect a star like this to go out with a bang and form a very obvious supernova but this one seems to have ghosted us in a way that's left astronomers puzzled number eight a screaming skull in space it's okay you are not the only one to shriek after looking at this horrific skull picture this ghastly face in space appears to be screaming while suffering through a miserable fiery death but no real skulls were harmed in the making of this photo it's actually an x-ray image of a cluster of galaxies known as the perseus cluster taken from the nasa chandra x-ray observatory number seven there are actual space ghosts nope your eyes are not playing a trick on you ghastly figures appear to be fighting to escape from this cloud of interstellar gas and dust called sh2136 the illuminated dark nebula is about 1400 light years away towards a constellation cephas it actually gets its name from the constellation being known as the ghost of cephas and

 stretches about two light years wide number six colossal cosmic crater a black hole sucker punch have you ever thought about getting

 punched in the face by a black hole

 don't fall off your chair if we tell you that black holes are known to occasionally flare up and give off incredible outbursts of energy punching holes in surrounding gas and material creating a crater recently x-rays and radioisotope picked up on the fact that the supermassive black hole at the center of the ophiuchus galaxy cluster threw a huge tantrum at some point in the distant past and created a crater which

 as researcher simona justin tushie puts it quote you could fit 15 milky way galaxies in a row into unquote the sheer size of it led astronomers to initially rule out the possibility of an explosion but when the crater was found to be visible in both x-rays and radio waves they had no other choice but to accept it number 5 zombie pac-man nebula this space pac-man got a fangs upgrade which makes us wonder did the alien playing this simulation game get a cheat code or something an ominous looking nebula called ngc 246 lurks in the constellation cassiopeia about 9 200 light years away from earth it is nicknamed the skull numbula but some astronomers call it the pacman nebula as it appears to be taking a bite out of space to visible light telescopes this star-forming cloud appears to be chomping through the cosmos earning it the nickname but viewed in infrared light by nasa's

 wide-field infrared survey explorer or wise the pac-man takes on a new appearance in place of its typical triangle-shaped mouth you could see a new set of lower sharp looking teeth number 4 speedy star supernova survivor on the subject of stars with strange fates a white dwarf was found to have gone supernova and survived against all odds scientists were dumbfounded as the clues paint an odd picture the star has an unusual composition without the expected hydrogen or helium but packing carbon sodium and aluminum which normally aren't present in white dwarfs it's tiny only about forty percent the mass of the sun and it's absolutely

 vrooming through the galaxy at a blistering nine hundred thousand kilometers per hour speed the only explanation that the scientific team could come up with was that it had somehow gone through a partial supernova and survived that would have burned off the missing elements produced the unexpected ones shrunk its mass and sent the star hurtling off at an incredible speed number three the eye of sauron is reading you this evil eye-shaped nebula formerly named fomalt strikes an eerie resemblance to the fearful eye of sauron from the lord of the rings series in the books tolkien described the eye as being quote rimmed with fire watchful and intent and the black split of its pupil opened up on a pit a window into nothing unquote weirdly there's also a zombie planet which surrounds this nebula which was debunked in 2005 and then re-proved in 2012.

 moreover astronomers have been baffled by the planet's unusual orbit and have wondered why there are so many comets in the vicinity of the star number two black hole turning a star into a planet it's like a star failed the test and got demoted by the principle of the universe the most bizarre thing ever is going to happen to a star in the galaxy gsn 069 in around a trillion years time this star may be transformed into a jupiter-like planet thanks to an endless close encounter with a black hole the strange story was uncovered when astronomers noticed bright x-ray bursts going off every nine hours like clockwork on closer inspection they realized it was a star being flung in a unique spirograph orbit around a black hole the flashes were from material being slurped off the star's surface every time it whizzed past its hungry host the slow but steady feast had already transformed the star from a red giant to a white dwarf over untold millions of years and the scientists predicted that given another trillion it might cool down enough to become a planet assuming the universe even lasts that long number one extended space travel can change your dna astronaut scott kelly who spent a year at the international space station in 2016 returned to find that he was two inches taller than his departing height the new physical differences between kelly and his identical twin brother mike who's also an astronaut were startling

 scientists compared dna of the two and found that besides growing two inches kelly's gut

 bacteria were completely different and his gene expression had changed crazy right scientists concluded that the changes were caused by quote the stresses of space travel which can cause changes in the cell's biological pathways unquote although kelly eventually returned to his original height his other genetic changes are seemingly irreversible meaning kelly and his brother are no longer identical twins now you know that it's possible to get sucker-punched by a black hole and that the eye of sauron actually exists but can you really believe going to space just to get those two extra inches we would in an instant if nasa offered let us know your thoughts in the comments below and give us a thumbs up if you want to get ghosted away in space maybe we can make our next article about that thanks for reading