These Stunning Phenomena In Space Have Baffled Scientists

 

Space is full of marvels and

 everywhere astronomers look

 they find the fascinating odd and simply strange welcome the Science Reads in today's article we have compiled 13 of the strangest space phenomena ever witnessed by astronomers we are likely about to find out

 maybe in less than three months

 in the center of a galaxy 1.2 billion light years away this grand event is unfolding right before us binary black holes are believed to be circling each other in a cosmic countdown that is getting shorter by the day the discovery team believes the pair are in the last stage of orbital evolution the end of an interstellar dance and are about to produce the loudest siren to be detected astronomers say the chances of seeing such an event from earth are about 1 in 10,000 years but here we are and a mind-blowing blast across the entire electromagnetic spectrum is expected Hubble very recently discovered this disastrous triple merger of galaxies that are drawing nearer and nearer to each other while their gravities rip them apart nasa says the cluster ic2431 is in the constellation about 680 million light years from earth our milky way is no stranger to this violence and is thought to have consumed over a dozen galaxies in its lifetime on June 29th 2019 astronomer Hugh Osborne found an extremely strange celestial object a star so odd it's being called the Random Transitor instead of the normal long set of numbers in a period of 87 days this star was transited up to 28 times meaning 28 objects passing in front of the star through our field of view just like planets will so far so good but no pattern has been found no periodic and predictable orbiting planets are making these transits the discoverers say the transit times which are being studied with the Kepler space telescope are so erratic they could have been produced by a random number generator in fact Kepler has observed 500 000 stars and see nothing like the Random Transitor theories include the presence of 27 planets roughly the same size and one unknown object but even then they must have orbits astronomers have never witnessed a cosmic cloud of booze literally space alcohol was discovered in 1995 near the constellation Aquila how much every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints a day for a billion years before the interstellar tap runs dry this strange phenomena has been observed as new stars form ethyl alcohol attaches to gas and dust clouds before heating separating and morphing into an alcoholic gas and it turns out there is more booze in at least two other milky way locations so it's highly doubtful we will ever run out unless of course Homer Simpson is on the job right dope there are insane weather systems on exoplanets that astronomers are finding more and more of one of these nightmare scenarios was witnessed in 2013 on wasp 76b which is happily floating around the constellation pisces and this crazy planet actually rains molten iron the world is tidally locked to its star much in the way the moon is to earth meaning one side is in perpetual daylight and it's close the day's side reaches 4,300 degrees Fahrenheit 2,371 degrees celsius so hot that it vaporizes metals that astronomers have detected in its upper atmosphere powerful winds move these across the daylight threshold to its night side where it falls as molten iron it's a bizarre space phenomenon but not much of a travel destination

 a team at NASA's Goddard space flight center discovered a group of galaxy

 clusters moving at breakneck speed towards no one knows the discoverer Sasha Kashlinsky dubbed the attractor between the Centaurus and vela constellations dark flow and indications are that this invisible cosmic magnet is far larger than anything in our known universe astronomers were befuddled by dg sat-1 a galaxy discovered in 2016 nearly as large as our milky way but so diffuse that it's nearly invisible called an ultra diffuse galaxy udg it is almost odd in that udgs like it are normally found in clusters this oddball sits by itself and is almost invisible researchers believe that it formed very shortly after the big bang a sort of ghost galaxy maybe it's just us here at fact nominal but the idea of waking up one morning and finding our planet has broken free of the sun and is now a cosmic wanderer creeps us out astronomers recently found a group of at least 70 of these free-floating rogue planets just wandering the cosmos relatively nearby before you think to track down one on the next starship just remember it's virtually always dark and insanely cold on these strange planets on the bright side stargazing must be spectacular two of our next door neighbors relatively speaking may have diamond rainfall Uranus and Neptune are believed to have temperatures from 3,000 to 12 thousand degrees Fahrenheit and pressures from two hundred thousand to six million times those on earth scientists tested the theory that these conditions would produce diamonds and guess what they produce diamonds and no it is not science fiction in 2017 hubble spotted this monster which is normally nestled in the center of a galaxy but has been dislodged by the extremely violent merging of two supermassive black holes much like concentric circles when a rock is thrown in a pond these waves sent the black hole hurtling through space at 5 million miles per hour this is one entity you surely wouldn't want to cross paths with on the cosmic highway of space first discovered by tabitha boyajian of louisiana state university this odd object confused astronomers for many years why it would dim then brighten then dim and then brighten at very irregular lengths of time was it an intentional signal many were perplexed but the prevailing explanation now is that it is surrounded by an unusual dust ring that causes the fluctuations so is a diamond planet invincible not likely considering what we list at number 13 but it would be a highly tempting

 destination for a mining expedition

 the world known as 55 cancery e is double earth size with nine times its mass a mere 40 light years away and evidence suggesting a world with a carbon to oxygen ratio greater than one and while this conclusion has recently been debated there is a strong likelihood that its high pressure has produced a hard diamond interior a diamond planet beats diamond showers yes black holes get a lot of ink and yes they are rather common knowledge but only recently have astronomers taken the first ever picture of these hungry beasts and its event horizon lurking at the center of the m87 galaxy Stephen Hawking famously described the effects a black hole would have on a hapless human caught in its grasp as spaghettification who would experience thankfully only once and quite briefly the sensation of having their bones

 flesh and even the tiniest molecules

 stretched like so much pasta

 so what do you think about these utterly strange phenomena astronomers have spotted in our amazing universe is there something even more bizarre just waiting to be found perhaps with the James Webb space telescope tell us in the comments