we've discovered a lot about space as a
species over relatively short existence
in this universe we visited the moon and
we now have data and information on an
ever expanding multitude of planets that
are in and around our solar system some
things astound and amaze us and some
things we find are just downright
strange this list is for those things
here are the 10 strangest things found
in space number 10 the taste of
raspberries and ROM
yes we're starting as we mean to go on
with this list
scientists have sifted through reams and
reams of signals sent back to us from
near the center of our galaxy the
location they're most focused on is
known as Sagittarius b2 a large dust
cloud that exists at the epicenter of
the Milky Way there they found a large
quantity of a material called ethyl
formate you may not have heard of this
material but it turns out this is the
chemical that gives raspberries their
taste and also rum its smell the
scientists were actually desperate to
find amino acids as it would help them
in their search for exactly how life is
created but they were certainly not
disappointed with their find dr. bilac
of Cornell University said that out of
50 molecules discovered in the survey
two of them had not been seen before
just more proof that scientists are
making groundbreaking discoveries every
single day so be careful if you find
yourself out near Sagittarius b2 you
might become very drunk
number nine hypervelocity stars
everyone's heard of shooting stars if
you're lucky you may have even seen one
they streaked across the sky on a clear
night and are incredibly breathtaking
well I have some bad news for you and
then I have some worse news the bad news
is those weren't actually shooting stars
you saw what you saw was an asteroid
hitting the atmosphere of our planet and
combusting though they're called
shooting stars they're not technically a
star that's being catapulted through
space and
worse news is there is such a thing as a
shooting star but it's pretty terrifying
scientists know that there are a lot of
stars that travel in binary pairs
meaning that they spend their existence
together however if these stars are
situated around a black hole which stars
usually are a pretty ridiculous thing
can happen if one star is sucked into
the black hole this can cause the other
one to shoot off into space due to the
loss of gravity
these stars can reach speeds of up to
ten thousand kilometers or six thousand
miles per second and travels so fast
that they become completely unable to
slow down that's nearly four times the
speed of a pistol bullet let that sink
in for a second shooting stars don't
sound so magical now do they number
eight art the Voyager spacecraft was
launched in the 1970s and it continues
its journey through space it has sent
back pictures of Jupiter Saturn and an
image where you can see us from six
billion kilometres away a tiny little
blue dot in a vast amount of nothingness
what's even more interesting about
Voyager is what was put onto it a Golden
Record was placed on the spacecraft with
information about earth contained on it
this record includes photos of earth and
people recorded greeting from the
President of the United States
coordinates to where exactly the earth
is located in the solar system and
drawings of a man and a woman the disc
also included a lot of music including
Mozart Chuck Berry and Blind Willie
Johnson the Blind Willie Johnson's song
is a particularly interesting choice as
it's a very solemn and sad song and
Willie Johnson lived an incredibly hard
and impoverished life but now his sad
modes can be heard throughout the
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zero 403 we often think of planets as
acting like the ones we know well in our
solar system as a controlled mass that
is happily floating around the Sun it's
nearest to with maybe a little moon
floating around it as well we think of
planets as part of a larger structure
like a solar system or a galaxy however
this is not always the case as the next
strange thing in this lid
will prove the not very cash Lee named
cfb TSI r2 149 zero four zero three is a
free-floating planetary-mass located
near the constellation of Dorado the
team that discovered it initially
believed it to be a part of the a beader
oddest moving group but this was then
proved to be false which means that this
mass is not able to be classified as a
planet I can't help but feel bad for it
to be honest
floating around space not quite a planet
not quite a rock doomed to a life of
absolute solitude number six
UFOs yes I had to put some in this list
there are some sightings of UFOs in
outer space that are too engaging to
just be passed off as space debris one
of which comes to us from Russia and was
filmed by Musa mantorov in 1991 at the
MIR Space Station Musa looks to be
outside conducting some renovation or
construction on the outside of the space
station when a cylindrical shape which
can only be a few hundred feet away from
him seems to hover near the space
station both Musa and a cameraman from
the partner space station instantly
spotted the thing as the Sun shined off
of it causing it to flash Musa actually
went public with this sighting
disregarding any notion of it being a
piece of space debris and confirmed that
it was indeed a UFO another interesting
sighting of a UFO from space has been
popularly referred to as the Black
Knight satellite theory the photo
showing what looks to be some sort of
spacecraft was taken in 1998 during the
sts-88 mission but conspiracy theorists
claim to have dated its existence back
to 1899 when Nikolai Tesla conducted a
series of radio experiments that picked
up strange signals a multitude of
different instances are connected with
it - including a number of detections of
crafts in outer space though most people
believe these to be a load of unrelated
stories tied together by conspiracy
theorists the picture taken in 1998 is
definitely pretty haunting number five
galactic cannibalism
now cannibalism is a concept that is
strange enough one is based on earth it
refers to a species eating and consuming
one of its own kind
what's just about the only thing that
can top cannibalism on the weird scale
that would be galactic cannibalism this
occurs when two galaxies get too close
together one of the two galaxies will
suck the other one in using its
gravitational force and distort the
original galaxy this results in one
galaxy usually the bigger one in essence
eating the other one want to know
something even scarier
scientists believe that our very own
galaxy called the Milky Way was formed
when we collided with another more
ancient star system this is because
there are two distinct groups of stars
in our galaxy ones that are young and
part of a disc shape and once that are
much older that form part of a halo
shape even stranger astronomers estimate
that our galaxy will collide with
another in the future given another 4.5
billion years and we think that the
Andromeda galaxy will eventually merge
with our own to create an elliptical
galaxy perhaps in the shape of a large
disk what's amazing about galactic
cannibalism as well is that it can birth
new stars because when galactic clouds
form together they can create new stars
so it's not all absolutely terrifying
number four large quasar group a quasar
group is a collection of astronomical
structures formed around supermassive
black holes they're thought to be the
largest objects in our known universe
the first ever quasar discovered was
found back in 1982 but many have been
found since then including one
hilariously known as the huge large
quasar group this particular one was
found by Roger close and his colleagues
at the University of Lancashire in 2013
another prominent quasar is the
supermassive J zero one hundred plus two
802
scientists believe that this hyper
luminous quasar group was formed only a
billion years after the Big Bang which
startled them considering how close that
is to the very beginning of our universe
another large entity that has been
troubling scientists has come to be
known as the Iranian is super void why
such a scary name well because from what
those that study it can gather it's an
entity that spans around 1.8 billion
light-years and is filled with
absolutely not
this was theorized after studying the
Cosmic Microwave Background the
radiation left after the Big Bang and
finding a massive gap around three
billion light years away from our Milky
Way some believe it to be a black hole
and if this is true then I'm pretty
scared of it number three the Eye of
Sauron it turns out that the Dark Lord's
symbol isn't much of a fantasy there's a
start in the constellation of Pisgah
sauce turnus that looks just like it our
eyes epicenter is known as FOMO halt
which we know to be the 18th brightest
star in the night sky it is supposedly
twice the size of our Sun which explains
why we can see it so clearly but the
real magic happens when FOMO halt is
observed under infrared light we begin
to see a huge ring of debris surrounding
it which could possibly be new planets
that are forming with the stars their
center all in all is a pretty scary
image and guess what the universe has
given us a hand to go with this I
elephant trunks of interstellar gas and
dust near the Eagle Nebula were pictured
by the Hubble telescope in 1995 the
photo which was named the number one
space photograph taken by Hubble shows
us what looks like a huge hand reaching
up into the cosmos it's actually
composed of 32 different images which
gives you an idea of the pillar size
it's absolutely breathtaking that such
beauty can exist at such gargantuan size
number two the face on Mars this
incredibly famous picture was taken in
1976 by the Viking 1 spacecraft as it
was picturing what was known as the
cydonia and Mesa on Mars it captured a
picture of what looked to be a humanoid
face this caused a lot of people to
think that we had finally found life on
Mars but it was dismissed by scientists
as a trick of the light and shadow
Viking actually went back and
photographed the same area and lo and
behold the face was no longer there
but this isn't to say strange things
don't happen on the Red Planet
over the course of a few weeks the Mars
rover captured something interesting in
the first picture we just see a pretty
normal picture of Mars terrain but in
the second there's something new in the
frame many people have argued about what
it might be the simplest explanation
being a rock that the rover kicked up
but it's still strange
and here's another strange formation
found in space this image of a crater
formation on Mercury which looks a bit
too much like Mickey Mouse doesn't it
disney is definitely hiding something
number one 55 Cancri 55 Cancri is a Sun
that is located 41 light years away from
our solar system in the constellation of
cancer it has what was thought to have
four other exoplanets orbiting it later
found out to be five all sounds pretty
normal right well the one planet we need
to focus on is 55 Cancri E it's about 2
times the size of our earth and
scientists have said that at least a
third of the planet's mass is made up of
pure diamond this is the first glimpse
of a planet that has a completely
different makeup to earth and it's
pretty impressive though such worlds
have been theorized before 55 Cancri E
is the first ever diamond planet to be
located which oddity from space did you
think was the most interesting let me
know in the comments down below thanks
