Friday 7 August 2015

Weirdest Stars in the Universe!


 Stars!


1) There exists a star about 50 light years away from Earth called BPM 37093 . This star is mainly made up of Carbon and Oxygen like all other White dwarf's, but what is unique about the star is that about 32-82% of the core has crystalized making the star a giant DIAMOND of 10 billion trillion trillion carats! The star was named Lucy after the song by the Beatles, "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds".




2) The fifth brightest star in the sky called as Vega is actually Egg shaped! Due to its hight rotation speeds of 263.2 km/s (163.54 miles/s) Vega actually bulges out at the center much like the Earth does! And thats not it, Its poles are significantly more brighter than the equator of the star!







3) Well this one should be called Star-ception!
   
HV 2112 is actually a pretty canabalistic star! Inside of the core of this red giant is a neutron star!
This star actually confirms the existence of  Thorne-Zytkow objects, which basically means a Neutron star inside a Red Giant. Well this is pretty huge. Just putting a Red Giant in the center of the solar system would make is surface extened out to the orbit of Mars. Neutron stars on the otherhand are unfathomably heavy. Just a hundredth of a teaspoon would weigh 40 Million Tons! Due to is weird makeup this star will also produce more heavier elements like Lead and even Transuranic ones too.





4) MY Camelopardalis is a binary star system. This star is actually not one but two stars just kilometers apart! The estimated orbital velocities of this binary system is 1,000,000 km/h (620,000 miles/h). Scientists predict that when these two stars collide they either may cause a SUPER-SUPER massive supernova or they may combine to form another giant star!


Well Thats it for this time! Hope you guys enjoyed reading this and tell me if you like this new format! Want to suggest a topic? Leave it in the comments below!














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