25 Most BIZARRE Stars In The Universe

the universe is estimated to have about 100 billion galaxies and 100 million stars are in each galaxy with so many stars in the universe there are bound to be a few oddballs many of the brilliant burning balls of gas are fairly similar to each other in their behavior but some stand apart as bizarre for their size weight and behavior using advanced telescopes scientists continue to study these stars to better understand them and the universe but mysteries still remain curious to hear about the weirdest stars well I'm Michael that's 25 and here are the 25 most bizarre stars in the universe 25 uy scuti considered a hyper giant star uy scuti is so big it could swallow up our star half our neighboring planets and practically our entire solar system its radius is about 1,700 times larger than the radius of the Sun 24 the Methuselah star the Methuselah star also named HD 1 for 0 to 8 3 really lives up to its name some have dated it 16 billion years old which is a problem because the Big Bang started only 13.8 billion years ago astronomers have tried to use more advanced aging techniques to better date the star but still came to 14 billion years old 23 Thorne's ight kow object first proposed as a theory by Kip Thorne and anisette kow the thorn site Kel object is two stars a neutron star and a red supergiant star that combined together into one star they discovered a potential candidate for this kind of star called HV 2 1 1 222 r136a1 while UI scooty is the largest star known to man r136a1 is definitely one of the heaviest in the universe it's mass is 265 times more than our Sun what makes it so bizarre is we don't know exactly formed the leading theory is that it formed through the merging of multiple stars 21 PSR b12 57 plus 1/2 most of the exoplanets in the solar system of PSR be one two five seven plus one two are dead and bathed in deadly radiation from their old star the bizarre thing about their star is it's a zombie star or pulsar that died but the core still remains the radiation emitting from it makes the solar system of virtual no-man's land 20 Sao two zero six four six two with a set of two spiraling arms spanning 14 million miles across sio2 zero six four six two is a bizarre and unique star in the universe indeed while some galaxies are known to have arms stars usually don't scientists believe this stars in the process of making planets 19 to mass J is 0 5 - 3 - 1 403 - mass j 0 5 - 3 - 1 403 is quite possibly the smallest known star in the universe and it's only 40 light-years away because it has such a small size and mass scientists believe it could live for 12 trillion years 18 heavy metal subbed wharfs recently astronomers discovered a couple of stars with a high amount of lead in their atmospheres creating thick and heavy clouds surrounding the stars they are H E 2 3 5 9 - 2 8 4 4 and H E 1 2 5 6 - 2 7 3 8 both 800 and 1,000 light years away respectively but you can just call them heavy metal subbed wharfs scientists are still not sure how they form 17 RX j 1 8 5 6 point 5 - 3 7 5 4 from the moment of their birth neutron stars lose energy and cool down without stopping so it's unusual that a 100 thousand year old neutron star like our ex j18 56.5 - three thousand five four could be so hot and not show any signs of activity scientists posit that interstellar material could be caught in its heavy gravitational field creating enough energy to heat up the star 16k I see eight four six two eight five to the stellar system k IC 8 four six two eight five two has come under intense observation and interest by SETI and astronomers for its unusual behavior recently occasionally it dims by twenty percent which might mean something is orbiting it of course some have jumped to the conclusion it's aliens but another explanation is debris from a comment that is come into orbit with the star fifteen Vega Vega is the fifth brightest star in the night sky but that's not what makes it bizarre rotating at 600,000 miles per hour the intense speed blends it into an egg shape rather than spherical like our Sun it also has temperature variations cooling at its equator 14sg are zero four one eight plus five seven to nine a magnetar 6,500 light-years away from Earth SGR zero four one eight plus five seven to nine has the strongest magnetic field in the universe what's peculiar is that it doesn't fit the pattern of normal magnet ours with a surface magnetic field similar to regular neutron stars thirteen kepler 47 in the constellation cygnus forty-nine hundred light-years away from Earth astronomers for the first time have discovered a pair of planets orbiting two stars known as the Kepler 47 system the orbiting stars eclipse each other every 7 and 1/2 days one star is about equal to our Sun in size but is only 84% is bright the discovery proves more than one planet can exist in the stressful orbit of a binary star system well that's cool and all but we already knew that with Tatooine 12 la super ba la super ba is another massive star 800 light years away it's about 3 times the mass of our Sun and for astronomical units in size it's so bright it can be seen by the naked eye on eleven my camelopardalis my camelopardalis was thought to be a bright single star but later was discovered to be two stars so close to each other they're practically touching the two stars are slowly melding together to create one star no one knows when they'll fully merge ten PSR j17 1 9 - 1 438 be technically PSR j17 1 9 - 14 38 B isn't a star but it was once when it was a star its outer layers were sucked away by another star transforming it into a small planet what's even more crazy about this former star is it's now basically a giant diamond planet 5 times larger than Earth [Music] 9og letr 1 - 2 B usually the average size of star makes most planets look like pebbles but in OG letr 1 - 2 b's case it's about the same size as jupiter that's right it's the smallest star in the universe scientists believe it began as a stellar runt a few billion years ago it's the first time they found a star in size comparable to a planet 8l 1 4 4 8 IR s 3 B astronomers discovered l1 for for a IR s 3 B triple star system right when it started to form using the Alma telescope in Chile they watched as two young stars revolved around a much older star they believe these two young stars were created from a nuclear reaction from the rotating gas around a star 7 Mira Mira also known as Omicron Ceti is 420 light-years away and is rather bizarre for its constantly fluctuating brightness scientists believe it's a dying star at the end of its life even more amazing is the fact that it's traveling through space at 80 miles per second and has a tail a few light years long 6 FOMA hot see if you thought a double star system is cool then you might want to sit down for foam aha see it's a triple star system only 25 light-years from Earth while triple star systems aren't exactly unique this one is because the stars are far apart rather than close together and abnormality formal halt C is particularly far away from a and B 5 Swift J 1 6 4 4 plus 57 blackhole appetites don't discriminate in the case of Swift J 1 6 4 4 plus 57 a dormant black hole awoke and devoured a star scientists made the discovery in 2011 using x-ray and radio wavelengths it took the light of the event 3.9 billion light years to reach Earth for PSR j18 for 1 - 0 5 0 0 known for their regular and continuous pulsing beams of light pulsars are fast spinning stars which rarely turn off but PSR j18 for 1 - 0 5 0 0 surprised scientists when it did just that for 580 days scientists believed studying it will help them understand how pulsars work 3 PS rj 1 7 4 8 - 2 4 4 6 the weirdest thing about PS rj 1 7 4 8 - 2 4 4 6 is that it's the universe's fastest spinning object it has a density 50 trillion times greater than lead to top it off its magnetic field is a trillion times more intense than our Sun in short it's one insanely overactive star - sdss j0 nine zero seven four five point zero plus zero two four five zero seven ses sj0 nine zero seven four five point zero plus zero two four five zero seven is a ridiculously long name for a star that got away with the help of a supermassive black hole the star flung out of its orbit and is moving fast enough to escape the Milky Way let's just hope one of these getaway star's doesn't come barreling towards us one magnetar sgr 1806-20 magnetar sgr 1806-20 is a terrifying force existing in our universe located 50 thousand light-years away astronomers detected a bright flash so powerful it bounced off the moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere for 10 seconds the solar flare raised questions among scientists if another one like it led to an extinction event on earth enjoying our lists be sure to click that subscribe button in the top right corner and the notification bell so you don't miss out on new ones every Monday through Friday share them with friends and help us consistently conciliate curiosity and if you want even more lists check out these videos here or just head to our website at least 25 calm [Music]

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Published: Fri Feb 02 2018