The Strangest Things We Have Ever Discovered in Space
A diamond planet where soot clouds rain carbon. A comet from another star screaming through our solar system at 245,000 kilometers per hour. A perfectly round sphere invisible to every telescope except one. The universe is far stranger than we ever imagined.In this episode, I explore the most bizarre objects ever discovered in space. First, the exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b, a lemon-shaped world orbiting a pulsar with an atmosphere made of helium and carbon where diamonds condense from soot clouds [citation:4]. Then, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a visitor from another star system racing…
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