If you look up into a cloudless night, you'll see the sky full of galaxies, stars, moons, and ploonets. "Ploonets"? Exactly! These are brand-new space objects that scientists have been hunting with fervor recently. Intriguing name aside, these objects are, in fact, runaway moons, with an equally intriguing nature! The problem is that these space bodies are like unicorns: everyone talks about them, but nobody’s ever seen one. And that's why astronomers from Earth are hunting ploonets, trying to prove they exist! It started in 2018, when scientists discovered something that didn't fit into the previously accepted theory… TIMESTAMPS:
Where the name "ploonets" came from 0:35
Scientists find "Neptmoon" 2:11
How ploonets are born 4:14
Why they are doomed 5:56
And here's the saddest news 6:37
The unsolved mystery of the Tabby's Star 7:25
Another puzzling space phenomenon 8:30 #planets #space #brightside SUMMARY:
– For the past couple of decades, earthlings have located more than 4,000 exoplanets, which are any planets hanging around somewhere in space outside our Solar System.
– Imagine a moon circling a monstrous gas exoplanet that, in turn, circles the star.
– The closer the exoplanet gets to the star, the stronger the gravitational pull of the star is. And suddenly, this pull may become so strong that it’ll literally push the moon away from its host planet and out of its orbit! – Inevitably, during this process, the exomoon loses some of its mass, but what remains, starts to circle the star itself. Welcome, dear new ploonet. – Scientists are sure that as soon as a ploonet begins to orbit the host star, you won't be able to distinguish it from a real planet. – If ploonets really exist, it can explain why it's so hard to locate exomoons. They just get ejected from their orbits and travel on their own as a new type of celestial body.
– Computer simulators showed that 6% of ploonets get munched by their stars. Like a celestial snack food. – Нou've probably heard that our planet's own Moon is slowly but steadily moving away from Earth with every passing year. It makes scientists believe that in some 5 billion years, our moon may also end up as a ploonet!
– Approximately 50% larger than our Sun, and way hotter, this star is located around 1,000 light-years away from the Solar System. – But what’s been baffling astronomers for years, is the star's eerie ability to dim for several days or even weeks at a time.
– Researchers agree that it looks as if something's blocking the Tabby's Star, and if this something is a mass of planets, there must be more than 50 of them! Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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