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6 most strange phenomena in the universe
The universe constantly surprises us, it always decomposes what we think we know about every aspect of the never ending abyss that surrounds us.
Carl Sagan said it best, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Whenever we look for evidence of a particular concept or idea, something completely irrelevant that we think we have understood is turned upside down.
This is the joy and magic of space and it has been confusing and curious since I was a child.
Of course, the universe will host some of the strangest and most bizarre comrades you'll ever see, from Mercury's unicorn-shaped galaxies and Mickey Mouse craters to nebulae and meteors.
In the following, we will take a look at 6 of the strangest phenomena in the universe!
The 186-year-old tornado on Jupiter.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a high-pressure storm on the giant planet Jupiter, believed to be as bad as the worst storms on Earth.
It's so big that you can fit three of our Earths inside it.
In 1979, the Voyager 1 ship took great pictures of this phenomenon.
For these and other photographs of Jupiter, they allow scientists to see the different colors in the clouds around the Great Red Spot showing the clouds around this point counterclockwise.
The Great Red Spot has been observed from Earth for about 400 years because it is large enough to be observable by telescopes on earth.
In 1665, Giovanni Domenico Cassini is said to be the first to officially observe this wonder.
Obviously this is difficult to confirm, but one thing is for sure, this declining power is dying, getting smaller and smaller over time.
However, it remains one of the strangest glasses of the universe.
The largest water tank in the universe.
The largest and farthest water reservoir in the universe ever found was found in 2011. This water is equivalent to 140 trillion times all water in Earth's oceans.
The water surrounding a quasar contains a giant black hole called APM 08279 + 5255 - 20 billion times larger than the sun and more than 12 billion light years away from us.
The quasars are powered by giant black holes slowly devouring a disk filled with surrounding gas or dust, creating an enormous amount of energy.
The energy output of this quasar is equivalent to one trillion suns.
All of the water vapor in the Milky Way is 4,000 times less than in this quasar.
The water vapor that surrounds the black hole in a gas enclosure reaches hundreds of light years wide, a light year it is about six trillion miles.
Although the gas is at -63 ° F (-53 ° C) and 300 trillion times less dense than Earth's atmosphere, it is 5 times hotter and 10 to 100 times denser than typical.
Measurements of vapor and other molecules, such as carbon monoxide, indicate there is enough gas to feed the black hole until it is about six times larger but who knows what will happen to it at that time.
A supermassive black hole defies science.
The largest black hole in the universe was discovered in 2015, J0100 + 2802 inside the largest quasar, with the highest luminosity of any known quasar.
J0100 + 2802 is confusing astronomers when it has masses of 12 billion suns and with luminosity of 420 trillion suns, 7 times brighter than the brightest quasar before.
It only formed 900 million years after the Big Bang and should not be anywhere close to its age.
This black hole is located 12.8 billion years away from Earth.
Xiaohui Fan, an author of the study that discovered this phenomenon, summed up its impressions perfectly;
The importance of this finding cannot be underestimated as it has prompted astronomers to re-evaluate their understanding of quasars and their formation.
The Milky Way has a black hole with a mass 4 million times the mass of the Sun at its center, and the black hole that powers this new quasar is 3,000 times heavier.
Diamond Planet.
55 Cancri e, discovered in 2004, is a planet in the Milky Way with at least a third of diamonds.
55 Cancri e is known as a super Earth, with a radius twice as wide as Earth and eight times greater in mass.
It orbits its host star, 55 Cancri which is found about 40 light years from Earth in the constellation Cancer, in just 18 hours, remember that it takes Earth 365 days to orbit our Sun.
Very close to its host star, about 25 times closer to Mercury than the Sun, the surface temperature reaches 9200 ° F (5,100 ° C), making it uninhabitable.
The theoretical value of the planet is about 26.9 billion dollars.
One zero is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (30 zeros).
To put this in perspective, if the earth is covered in a nonillion $ 1 bill, the bill would create a layer thick of 12 million miles.
A big cloud of raspberry flavored rum!
Sagittarius B2, a giant cloud of gas and dust molecules found about 390 light years from the center of the Milky Way, contains large amounts of ethyl formate.
Ethyl formate, a chemical compound, is responsible for the odor of raspberries and rum.
Centauri B2 is equivalent to 3 million solar masses and stretches over an area of about 150 light-years.
The temperature in the cloud ranges from 80 ° F (27 ° C) to -451.8 ° F (-233.2 ° C).
However, don't get too excited because there are many other chemical compounds including propyl cyanide.
This alcoholic wonder contains billions of liters of alcohol.
The composition of Sagittarius B2 was studied by astronomers in Spain using the IRAM radio telescope.
The cloud actually contains enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion, trillion pints of beer.
To consume that much, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints a day for a billion years.
A planet of ice on fire.
Gliese 436 b is a planet about the size of Neptune and was first discovered in 2004, about 30 million light years from Earth and about 20 times larger.
It orbits only 4.3 million miles from its star and takes 2 days and 15.5 hours while Earth orbits the Sun about 93 million miles.
Gliese 436 b has a minimum surface temperature of 475 ° F (245 ° C).
The water that exists on the planet, known as X-ice, is held together by enormous gravity despite the abnormal temperature.
This substance is of course no ordinary stone, its compressed water is similar to the way diamonds are formed from carbon.
These forces prevent water molecules from evaporating and escaping from the planet, instead becoming tight inside.
This list so far is not long enough to cover all the strange scenes in the universe.
There are planets entirely made up of ice, supernovae to the left and in the middle, and even giant gaps in the inexplicable universe, such as Bootes Void.
Whether you are a lover of space and science or just love the weird and wonderful things, you definitely need to read about the field.
Every time I personally read something new about space, I just want to learn more, you can understand why astronomers spend so much time working or how some people can.
Regardless of whether you believe in an omnipotent creator or the random outburst power of the big bang at the start of this beautiful vast universe, you have to agree that it's really impressive and the creator needs to be.
