Five mysterious space discoveries – from creepy radio signals to ‘nuclear pasta’ 10billion times stronger than steel
It’s safe to assume that there are a ton of amazing and strange secrets in the universe.
It might be a genuine cosmic question mark or terrifying planets.
Mysterious radio signals
Since 2007, scientists have been receiving ultrabright, ultrastrong radio waves that last only a few milliseconds.
The enigmatic messages have been dubbed FRBs, or fast radio bursts.
They seem to have come from a source billions of light-years away.
After eight billion years of travel through space, a tremendous burst of radio waves reached Earth in September, according to astronomers.
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One of the most intense and far-reaching radio signals ever detected is FRB 20220610A.
Cosmic question mark
A strange cosmic phenomenon that resembles a question mark is hidden 1,470 light years away in the Herbig-Haro 46/47 galaxy.
Scientists are naturally perplexed by this shape, which was found by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.
This object’s identify is yet unknown.
Scientists only know that it is extremely far from Earth due of its reddish hue.
When an object moves away from us, light is shifted into the red end of the spectrum.
Nuclear pasta
Steel is ten billion times weaker than nuclear spaghetti, the universe’s strongest known material.
It is formed from a dead star’s remnants.
According to simulations, a star’s dying protons and neutrons may experience tremendous gravitational pressure.
A single teaspoon of the star’s mass would be more massive than Mount Everest because to how densely packed it is when it contracts.
As a result, they are compressed into tangled masses of material that would eventually break if ten billion times the force required to break steel were applied.
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The term “nuclear pasta” comes from the fact that it may be compressed into a variety of spaghetti forms.
Gnocchi are ‘nuclear pasta’ that appear as bubbles close to the neutron star’s surface.
It is crushed into flat lasagna sheets as it descends.
Colliding galaxies
The William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), one of the planet’s most sophisticated telescopes, photographed six galaxies merging last week in previously unheard-of clarity.
One rogue galaxy, NGC 7318b, sped past Stephan’s Quintet, a well-known collection of five interacting galaxies, causing the unusual occurrence.
It struck with a startling velocity of 2 million miles per hour (3.2 million kilometers per hour), producing a strong shockwave that has been compared to a jet fighter’s sonic boom.
A huge field of debris from earlier galactic collisions was expelled by the impact.
Nightmare planet
An exoplanet located around 64.5 light-years away, notorious for its harsh weather, has also gained notoriety for its odor.
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According to data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope and analyzed by Johns Hopkins University researchers in July, its atmosphere has a rotten egg odor.
Traces of hydrogen sulfide are present in the atmosphere of the gas giant, known as HD 189733 b, which causes the entire planet to smell like rotten eggs or sulfur.
Life on HD 189733 b
It would be impossible for people to live on HD 189733 b, but let’s pretend for a moment:
One of the “most terrifying and mind-blowing destinations” in our galaxy, according to NASA, is HD 189733.
From a distance, its marbled blue atmosphere can seem similar to Earth, yet it is quite different.
Along with the stench of rotten eggs, you would have to contend with gusts of up to 5,400 mph and the smell of sulfur in every breath you took.
About seven times the speed of sound, that is.
“And getting caught in the rain on this planet is more than an inconvenience,” said Nasa. “It s death by a thousand cuts.”
It is believed that the Tempest-dwarfing winds of this extraterrestrial world rain glass sideways.
Furthermore, even on its dark side, the planet’s surface can attain temperatures of 650 C (1,200 F).
These unforgiving circumstances make the planet an extremely poor place to find extraterrestrial life.
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