10 Strangest Planets In Space You've Never Seen

it's easy to get lost in the everyday mundanity of life most people are concerned with problems at work or trivial issues at home for perspective it can be helpful to consider the conditions in other countries or even the environment on other planets today we're looking far outside of our solar system to consider the most beautiful planets in the universe 55 ken cree is also known as the diamond planet it's easy to understand why when you consider this amazing planet which has about eight times earth's mass it earned this moniker because scientists suggested that it was composed of diamonds and graphite while the theory is not as popular today the planet still remains an interesting object of study due to its high density and its very close proximity to its parent star interestingly one side of 55 cancri e is always facing its star meaning that it has a permanent dayside and night sight many scientists believe that this dayside is covered in molten lava the lava on the day side would reflect radiation from the star contributing to the overall observed temperature of the planet now a deeper analysis finds this planet likely has an atmosphere whose ingredients could be similar to those of earth's atmosphere but thicker lava lakes directly exposed to space without an atmosphere would create local hot spots of high temperature according to scientists in 2012 scientists discovered a new type of alien planet a steamy water world that is larger than earth but smaller than uranus the standard bearer for this new class of exoplanet is called gj1214b which astronomers first discovered in december 2009. new observations by nassar's hubble space telescope suggest that gj1214b is a watery world enshrouded by a thick steamy atmosphere gj121 is like no planet we know of study lead author zachary berta of the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics in cambridge massachusetts said in a statement a huge fraction of its mass is made up of water the exoplanet orbiting a small star only 40 light years away from us thus opens dramatic new perspectives in the quest for habitable worlds the planet gj1214b has a mass about six times that of earth and its interior is likely mostly made of water ice it appears to be rather hot and surrounded by a thick atmosphere which makes it inhospitable for life as we know it on earth [Music] j1407b is the infamous gas giant with a gargantuan ring system located 420 light years away from earth the planet possesses one of the largest known ring systems in the galaxy this earned the planet the nickname super saturn or saturn on steroids the rings consist of dust particles that come from the initial halo around the parent star which was captured by the planet's gravity before it could occrate into proper planets in fact the accretion process continues within the ring system from the initial establishment of human presence 7600 years ago several newly formed moons have been noted with frequent impacts between these bodies this has made j1407b an extremely interesting subject of study amongst astronomers according to the lead researcher the star is much too far away to observe the rings directly but we could make a detailed model based on the rapid brightness variations in the starlight passing through the ring system if we could replace saturn's rings with the rings around j1407b they would be easily visible at night and be many times larger than the full moon [Music] glease 436b is a neptune neptune-sized planet that orbits a red dwarf known as gliese 436 a star that is cooler smaller and less luminous than the sun because of this close proximity the planet's temperatures exceed 526 degrees celsius which is hot enough to ward off water in liquid form yet current models indicate that a planet like this which is composed mostly of hydrogen gas and has such high surface temperatures should have significant quantities of methane in its atmosphere it has been concluded by scientists and astronomers that there is a certain form of ice existing on gliese 436b that is kept solid due to the immense gravitational force originating from the planet's core which intensifies with increases in depth thereby preventing the water from evaporating as it does on earth but making matters weirder is the fact that the planet's methane is likely combusting meaning that in this world there are raging bonfires in the sky and ice on the ground earning the planet the nickname the planet of burning ice 51 pegasi b was the first extrasolar planet confirmed to orbit a sun-like star the planet orbits the 5th magnitude star 51 pegasi located 48 light years away from earth in the constellation pegasus 51 pegasi has physical properties like luminosity and temperature very similar to those of the sun the extrasolar planet is not visible from earth but its presence was deduced in 1995 from the wobble that its gravity induces in the parent star's motion in a four-day cycle it's also known that this planet is tidally locked to its star much as our moon is tidally locked to earth always presenting the same face to it it's what's known today as a hot jupiter consider that before 51 pegasi b the search for exoplanets worlds beyond our own solar system was exceedingly difficult once astronomers began in earnest to search for them they searched for decades before finding any in nearly all cases exoplanets cannot be seen in the light of their parent stars and astronomers had to develop clever technologies in order to discover them as with many extrasolar planets 51 pcb was found using the radial velocity method [Music] on december 12 2016 astronomers at the university of warwick in coventry england announced they had detected evidence of powerful changing winds sweeping across exoplanet hat p7b a world 40 percent larger than jupiter orbiting a star 50 percent more massive than our sun some light years away they say this is the first ever weather report on a gas giant outside our solar system they report the planet's clouds could be made of vaporized corundum the mineral that forms rubies and sapphires the planet is probably uninhabitable due to its likely violent weather systems and unaccommodating temperatures one side of the planet always faces the star because it's tidily locked and that side remains much hotter than the other with the dayside average temperature on hat p7 being 2860 kelvin or about 4688 fahrenheit [Music] psr j1719-1438 is probably one of the most fantastical cosmic objects that you'll ever encounter first 1438 is a neutron star a neutron star is a stellar object that is amazingly massive and amazingly small although neutron stars are at least 1.4 times the mass of our sun they are generally only about 20 kilometers across essentially they are stars that are the size of small cities with an incredibly high mass since neutron stars are so dense on earth one teaspoon of this stellar material would weigh about a billion tons the planet's parent star is a special kind of flashing star known as a millisecond pulsar a rapidly rotating neutron star formed from a supernova the entire system which is only the second of its kind ever discovered is located about 4 000 light years from earth in the constellation of serpents and to make things even crazier the super high pressure of the planet has likely caused the carbon within it to crystallize into an actual diamond a new study suggests [Music] nasa's hubble space telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our milky way galaxy at an estimated age of 13 billion years the planet is more than twice as old as earth's four and a half billion years it's about as old as a planet can be it formed around a young sun-like star barely one billion years after our universe's birth in the big bang the ancient planet has had a remarkable history because it resides in an unlikely rough neighborhood it orbits a peculiar pair of burned out stars in the crowded core of a cluster of more than 100 000 stars the new hubble findings close a decade of speculation and debate about the identity of this ancient world in 2014 scientists discovered the godzilla of earth's a new type of huge and rocky alien world about 560 light years from earth dubbed a mega earth the exoplanet kepler 10c weighs 17 times as much as earth and it circles a sun-like star in the constellation draco the mega earth is rocky and also bigger than super earths which are a class of planets that are slightly bigger than earth kepler 10c is a gas giant but it's extremely atypical despite their great size gas giants are actually not very dense because they're made up of vast atmospheres of hydrogen and helium around a small rocky core the planet saturn for example is so light that it would float in water if you could find a large enough bathtub kepler 10c on the other hand is solid which is unheard of for a planet that size using infrared data from the subaru telescope in hawaii an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star gj504 several times the mass of jupiter and similar in size the new world dubbed gj504b is the lowest mass planet ever detected around a star like the sun using direct imaging techniques the alien planet gj504b is a colder and bluer world than astronomers had anticipated and it likely has a dark magenta hue infrared data from the subaru telescope in hawaii revealed if we could travel to this giant planet we would see a world still glowing from the heat of its formation with a color reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom a dull magenta study researcher michael mccall wayne of nasa's goddard space flight center in greenbelt maryland said in a statement from the space agency [Music]

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Published: Fri Jun 05 2020