25 Strangest Things Found In Outer Space

Posted by , Updated on March 21, 2024

The universe is a big place that we don’t very much about it. At least relatively speaking. What we do know, however, is that it can get pretty weird. Don’t take our word for it though, here are the 25 strangest things found in outer space.

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25

A Water Reservoir

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-hole-feeding-accreting-esa-nasa.jpg

With 140 trillion times the amount of water held in the Earth’s oceans, this cloud of H2O gas is over 12 billion light years away near a black hole.

24

The Diamond Planet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_and_Super-Earth.jpg

55 Cancri e is an entire planet made out of diamond. Take that Bill Gates.

23

The Planet of Burning Ice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gliese-436-b.jpg

Although it’s 439 degrees celcius on Gliese 436 b, it’s watery surface doesn’t evaporate. Instead, the molecules pull together to form something known as “hot ice”.

22

Sagittarius B2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Center_of_the_Milky_Way_Galaxy_IV_%E2%80%93_Composite.jpg

Consisting of ethyl formate, this is the same gas that gives raspberries their taste and rum its smell. Just in case you were wondering what the center of our galaxy smells like…

21

Castor System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HD_98800.jpg

With six stars orbiting around a central mass, this system is over 54 times as bright as our sun.

20

Gliese 581 c

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4254232730/

Remember the planet of burning ice? Well this one is its neighbor and scientists say that it is the most likely candidate for future colonization. It doesn’t spin so the bright side is super hot and the dark side is freezing cold but in between there is a small strip of temperate territory.

19

Hypervelocity Stars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_concept_of_PSR_B1257%2B12_system.jpg

Yes, there are actually stars pummeling through space at trillions of miles per hour.

18

A Massive Electric Current

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plasma-lamp_2.jpg

Emanating from a nearby black hole, this current is over 1.5 times the size of the Milky Way.

17

Himiko Cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carina_Nebula_in_infrared_light_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope).jpg

Supposedly one of the largest objects in the known universe, it’s over half the size of the Milky Way.

16

Large Quasar Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_rendering_ULAS_J1120%2B0641.jpg

Although Himiki is huge, the LGQ is ever bigger. It’s forty thousand times larger than our galaxy and even breaks some standard laws of physics.

15

Gravitational Lensing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Horseshoe_Einstein_Ring_from_Hubble.JPG

What you are looking at is actually a blue star directly behind a yellow star. Light is just being bent so the blue star gets warped.

14

A Unicorn

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trifid_nebula_close_detail_of_pillars.jpg

Ok, not really, but the Trifid Nebula certainly bares a resemblance.

13

Mickey Mouse

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7189560845/

And that would be the mouse carved into the side of Mercury.

12

A Cold Star

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4498130606/

Although we’re used to stars being blazing hot, scientists recently found a star that is only 89 degrees fahrenheit.

11

A Star 1,500 Times The Size Of The Sun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.svg

If you thought the sun was big, allow us to introduce VY Canis Majoris.

10

New Found Blob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lyman_Alpha_Blob.jpg

At 200 million light years across this blob from the other side of the universe gives the Large Quasar Group a run for its money.

9

Pillars of Creation

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillars_of_Creation.jpeg

It’s basically a huge nursery for stars that’s hundreds of millions of light years across.

8

Magnetars

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:SGR_1806-20_108536main_NeutronStar-Print1.jpg
Spinning out of control these stars could destroy your credit card with their magnetic field from hundreds of millions of miles aways.
7

Neutrinos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FirstNeutrinoEventAnnotated.jpg

If you were to hold up a dime for a second, that would be long enough for about 150 billion tiny, massless neutrinos to go plummeting through it.

6

Dark Matter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:COSMOS_3D_dark_matter_map.jpg

If you piled up all the visible universe it would account for only 5% of the total mass. At least 27% more consists of invisible “dark matter”

5

Dark Energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DMPie_2013.svg

To really make things interesting, the remaining 68% is something known as dark energy, and whatever it is it’s pushing the universe apart at top speed.

4

Planets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg

Although it may sound weird because we live on one, there is currently no theory that can fully explain how a bunch of gas and dust surrounding a star comes together to form a planet, especially a rocky one.

3

Gravity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robot_Arm_Over_Earth_with_Sunburst_-_GPN-2000-001097.jpg

The weakest and most pervasive force in the universe still has scientists guessing as to its origin.

2

Black Hole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BlackHole.jpg

Beyond a black hole’s event horizon, or gravitational border, nothing can escape. Not light, not matter, nothing.

1

White Holes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_quasar_NASA.jpg

Supposedly the opposite of black holes, they only exist in theory. The matter goes in one end and out the other. Some say they could be the key to crazy things like time travel.



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