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VAMPIRE STARS!
Yes, you read that right! Vampires and zombies do exist in the real Universe, atleast in the form of some weird Stars!
The stuff I'm going to show you is as mind boggling as Black holes! So bring on some snacks & pull up a seat,
LET'S DO THIS!
Yes, you read that right! Vampires and zombies do exist in the real Universe, atleast in the form of some weird Stars!
The stuff I'm going to show you is as mind boggling as Black holes! So bring on some snacks & pull up a seat,
LET'S DO THIS!
Astrophysicists are always looking for weird stuff in the Universe, but sometimes their discoveries are especially strange & maybe a little spooky! This is just what happened with vampire stars!!!!
When we look up at the night sky we look at the stars & think that they're all alone in the dark infinite void of empty space, but that's not exactly true! Most of the stars you see are always with a partner! With a companion to hang out with!
Lemme give you an example, you know the brightest star in the night sky is 'Sirius' it looks like a single pin point star, but it's actually 2 stars dancing with each other in orbit described by the known laws of Gravity!
You wanna see something amazing?
You wanna see something amazing?
This is an ACTUAL FREAKING IMAGE OF 2 BABY STARS BEING BORN, IN STUNNING DETAIL!
Astronomers at @almaobs captured this imagine
Astronomers at @almaobs captured this imagine
Now, in my recent threads on Black holes & the end of the universe I mentioned that Stars actually D!E, I mean I still get freaked out when they go boom in an instant!! Stars are like giant burning balls of Gas, nuclear fusion is their energy source which keeps them lit up!
Stars fuse lighter elements into heavier elements. Our own sun with not enough mass, fuses hydrogen into helium, 5 billion years from now when it's fuel runs out, when all the hydrogen is fused, it will expand, shedding it's outer layers, engulfing the entire orbits of mercury,
Venus and possibly earth itself!!! What's left behind is a sun's incredibly dense core, A WHITE DWARF STAR! a teeny tiny star about the size of earth but so dense that an ice cream scoop of it's material can outweigh 60 Cars combined!!! Yes, this is the corpse of our dead sun!
But hey, our sun is just a mediocre star, there are stars faaaaaaar bigger than our sun! what happens when they end their life? when a super massive star ends it's life, it goes out with a BANG! It fuses it's core till iron and then GOES BANG! IT EXPLODES!
What's left behind is a neutron star or a black hole, check my pinned tweet for the latter one. For now, let's come to Neutron stars!! You know, these are the most weirdest thing in the universe, they spin like 700 times per SECOND! They are vv smol, about the size of a city
Yet a single teaspoon of their material can outweigh mount Everest, They are just ridiculously dense, they can rip apart our solar system in a few minutes, they are super magnetic too & they can tear your body apart into particles!
Don't mess up with these stars, ever.
Don't mess up with these stars, ever.
NOW WATCH THE DRAMA UNFOLDING IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES:
Imagine 2 stars dancing with each other in a gravitational tug, one is heavier than the other, the heavier one will age & evolve more quickly, as that happens it will swell up just like our Sun! Shedding it's outer layers +
Imagine 2 stars dancing with each other in a gravitational tug, one is heavier than the other, the heavier one will age & evolve more quickly, as that happens it will swell up just like our Sun! Shedding it's outer layers +
As it gets bloated and puffed up, it comes in the influence of that smaller star! THE SMALLER STAR BECOMES A VAMPIRE! IT LITERALLY SUCKS ALL THE BLOATED MATERIAL OUT OF IT'S BIGGER PARTNER UNTIL THE SMALLER ONE GETS VERY BIG! HOLY SHIT!!! Now watch:
The smaller one gets big & a blue coloured youthful star! The big one becomes a tiny lifeless white dwarf, but as we talked about white dwarfs they're very dense & u don't wanna mess w them! NOW LIKE ANY GOOD HORROR MOVIE, THIS STORY HAS A TWIST:
There's all sorts of stories about zombies, what If the dead could actually come back & take the revenge on the people who killed them! Something does happen really in this case, as the young blue youthful star ages, it swells up now! And that lifeless White dwarf......
NOW STARTS TO FEED ON THAT BLUE BIG STAR, IT STARS TO TAKE UP ALL IT'S GAS BACK TO ITSELF! As that material piles up, it gets hotter & hotter, you're literally creating a huge unstable bomb, it becomes ridiculously unstable that the ENITRE SYSTEM OF ZOMBIES EXPLODES!!
This is basically how it looks in this animation I saw on @SPACEdotcom's website:
You know what? Our galaxy is filled with vampires and exploding zombies, they steal material from their companion and Friends to stay young. You & I can be result of these vampires sucking each other for millions of years! When they explode they literally outshine the galaxy!
Look at this image above, that point of light was literally this explosion, it's brightness is as intense as the centre of this galaxy, we call them Type1a supernova! There's no life in the universe without death, this is the principle that Astrophysics brings down.
If you wanna dive more deeper, you have to follow my friend & one of the most brilliant mind I've met here @starstrickenSF! It's her job to look at these exploding stars & calculate the rate of expansion of the whole freakin' Universe propelled by dark energy! How cool is that!!!
We really don't know what dark energy is, it lies in our chasm of ignorance, we know it's there, we can measure it, it acts like a mysterious pressure in the vaccum of space, forcing the galaxies to go far from each other, but that's all for the next time peeps, keep looking up
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