1. Pac- Man swallows up the stars
NASA released an image taken by the Hubble Tennis Tennis Tennis on October 12, showing the ruins of an explosive star that looks very similar to Pac- Man in a video game.
According to Space.com, the object - known as N 63A - is the ruins of a superyacht. N 63A is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMG) - an Galaxy 163,000 light years away from the Milky Way and is one of the few galaxies that can be seen with the naked eye from Earth.
LMG contains several star-forming regions, also known as startups - where large clouds of gas converge and collapse into small stars. The super- authorityrest is located in one of these star-studded gardens and is surrounded by many stars. Those stars are like energy tablets swallowed by Pac- Man in a famous video game.
2. A monsterious jellyfish, reviving from the dead
Galaxy clusters are the largest structures ever known in the universe, linked together by attraction. They can contain thousands of galaxies, huge clouds of hot air, and sometimes the ghost of a or two crocodiles. In the Abell 2877 Galaxy Cluster, located in the southern sky about 300 million light years from Earth, astronomers have discovered such a Jade.
This cosmic structure is more than 1 million light years wide and can only be seen in a narrow band of radioactive light.
According to a study published on March 17 in the Journal of Astronomical Physics, no structure that big has ever been seen in such a narrow strip of light.
3. An extremely rare planet in Orion
This year, scientists have found compelling evidence that the rarest planet in the universe - a single world revolving around three stars at the same time - is located in the Orion constellation.
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At the center of the eye are 3 stars.
In a paper published on September 17 in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers pointed out that the three- ring fluctuations of the star system are almost certainly due to the presence of a large Mars-sized planet inside one of the rings. If confirmed by future studies, this giant world will become the first planet to revolve around the three stars ever discovered in the universe.
4. The cannon shot fires energy into a spiral shot
In 2019, researchers published the first and only photo so far of a super black hole, weighing about 6.5 billion times the Sun and located about 55 million light-years from Earth in the Galaxy Messier 87.
This year, scientists recorded images of a huge flow of matter and energy emitted from the center of the black hole. The giant rocket system is not straight but turns into a strange double torque structure.
5. Invisible "fence" covers the center of the Milky Way
The center of the Milky Way often sends cosmic rays out into space at a speed close to light. According to research on November 9 in the journal Nature Communications, when researchers maped the density of cosmic rays near the center of the Galaxy, they discovered something confusing: Even when the cosmic rays issued from the center of the Milky Way, a mysterious "shelf" had blocked the cosmic rays from other sources from entering the center of our Galaxy.
6. Massive "shipbuilding workshop" of galaxies
In a study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on October 26, scientists shared the discovery of a giant "shipbuilding workshop" - where galaxies are built, similar to where our Galaxy Federation has grown.
This massive structure contains more than 60 galaxies and is 11 billion light years away from Earth. The young galaxies in this "shipbuilding workshop" are uniting at a very fast, almost unreal speed.
7. The mysterious giant chamber in the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a giant spherical chamber in the Milky Way. It is believed to have formed after a star explosion millions of years ago.
According to Space.com, the globular space is up to 500 light-years wide and lies between the "star gardens" in the constellation Perseus and the constellation Taurus.
8. "Tunnel" of rotation surrounding the Solar System
The solar system and some neighboring stars may be stuck in a giant magnetic tunnel. Astronomers said in a paper on the arXiv database that the tunnel consists of giant magnetic ridges, 1,000 light-years long and invisible to the naked eye.
9. First time seeing a "spaghettified" star
Black holes are "eaters". When a star moves too close to a black hole, the extreme attraction of the black hole will pull the star into a long noodle shape in a process called "spaghettification".
In May, researchers witnessed this complex process happening directly for the first time. A star has passed and is stuck in the "squatting" of a black hole 750 million light-years from Earth and 30 million times the mass of the Sun. The disastrous encounter created a brilliant light that the termicons on Earth could clearly see.
10. The mysterious tent on the far side of the Moon
China's Yutu-2 exploration robot discovered an unusually massive object in the dark side of the Moon on October 29. Scientists call it a "mysterious tentupit". It will take Yutu-2 2-3 months to get closer and determine exactly what the object is.