But it turns out that this is not all. Who knows why they suddenly do strange things: to attract attention or simply obeying an impulse. Today we decided to remember a few more ridiculous and strange situations that stars found themselves in. Even a meat dress is no competitor here!
Naomi Campbell (45)
Black Panther always had an explosive character. And if today her ardor has cooled a little, then before it was very risky to be near the star. She attacked her assistants, disrupted shows and argued with journalists. Naomi also loves to hit people with a mobile phone, for which she paid a fine three times. And she once kicked her driver in the head, so much so that he broke his face on the steering wheel.
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During a speech at Hollywood Film Awards the actor couldn’t put two words together. He looked confused, looked for a microphone on stage for a long time, and spoke indistinctly. “Oh, it’s one of those nights,” joked Depp, but no one understood him...
After this, a discussion flared up in the press and on the Internet about whether the actor was drunk or just playing to the audience. The first version is supported by the fact that during the performance Depp started swearing, although the ceremony was broadcast on live.
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Let fans forgive everything to the king of the Russian pop scene, we believe that his behavior towards women was, to put it mildly, very questionable. First at one of his press conferences Kirkorov insulted the journalist, and after a while hit the girl, the second director of the Golden Gramophone award.
Chuck Berry (88)
Even beyond the legendary Chuck Berry there are sins. Once upon a time in his club in California Chuck installed video cameras in women's restrooms (right inside the toilets). Several women sued the singer, and he paid them one and a half million dollars.
Solange Knowles (29)
Well, is it possible to live in peace if your sister is (34)? New York Ball Met Gala ended with Solange Knowles attacked with fists Jay Z(45). The incident was recorded by a surveillance camera installed in the hotel elevator. The girl beat him with her hands and feet, and even in the presence of Beyoncé! When they went outside Solange and Jay Z didn't try to hide negative emotions, A Beyoncé smiled. A hotel employee later sold the recording to the press. These are such strong family relationships.
Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991)
We are used to hearing the famous hit Je t"aime...Moi non plus(“I love you, I love you too – no”) performed by Serge Gainsbourg and his wife Jane Birkin. But initially the song was intended for another partner of the artist - Brigitte Bardot, with which the first version was recorded. However, Bardot forbade the release of this recording, since she was married at that moment and tried in every possible way to disavow any connection with Serge. The song was so explicit that it was banned on radio stations in many countries. Europe. And this is one of the most modest episodes.
For example, in 1986 Gainsbourg, who was already 62 years old at that time, invited Whitney Houston to have sex with him. Live. And more than once.
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In late August Lindsay I went to a millionaire's wedding Justin Etzina, where she drank too much alcohol and did a striptease. But these are still flowers! One day, a list of Lohan’s lovers appeared in the media, written in her own hand.
It featured (37), (34), (27) , (37), (38) and a dozen other famous men. The actress also ran around the store naked, fought with her mother and, of course, went to court for drugs and drunk driving.
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A waitress at a restaurant where Kendall once dined said that the star left the establishment without paying the bill. According to Hayley, she had to run for Kendall, then Jenner threw money in her face. Sister
Hollywood celebrities do not always manage to look stylish and sophisticated; sometimes their outfits are tasteless and even ridiculous, which arouses genuine interest among the paparazzi, who will not miss the opportunity to photograph the failures of the stars. Here is a collection of not the most good images celebrities, both on the carpet and in everyday life.
British singer Lily Allen (28) in a Vivienne Westwood outfit and with feathers in her hair looks like a cancan dancer from a cheap cabaret.
At her birthday party, one of the most famous blondes on the planet, Paris Hilton (33), wore the outfit of a living Barbie doll and a tiara, but did not wear underwear, allowing guests to check out her bikini line.
And again a complete revelation from Paris Hilton
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian (33) fits her famous curves into leather skirt Givenchy for 1120 euros, but this leather was not enough for her - the skirt smoothly turned into leather boots.
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor (47), who became famous in the early 90s for the poignant ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U”, appeared at a discussion with representatives catholic church in an army uniform and a Rastafarian hat.
British actress Imogen Poots (24) joined the “club” of celebrities flashing lingerie on the red carpet in a Marc Jacobs outfit.
Pop star Rihanna is famous for her strange outfits, but she outdid herself with this restaurant outfit! In order to taste Italian cuisine, she dressed up in a completely transparent Simone Rocha skirt, under which pink panties were clearly visible.
And again, Rihana surprises fans with the choice of her outfit, or rather, a strange accessory in the form of a Chanel “barn” lock on her neck.
And here the Barbadian singer went to dinner at a restaurant wearing a vintage Moschino robe over a black bodysuit.
Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (23) also joined the “singing cowards” club, choosing a stage outfit the best way highlighting her very unusual figure.
Stylists dressed French film star Lea Seydoux (28) in a Miu Miu dress, which looked cheap due to the transparent skirt and too tight neckline.
From the entire fall-winter collection of Valentino, American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (36) managed to choose an outfit that ages her by twenty years and with which she completely blends in.
And again, the American actress managed to age herself by 50 years, wearing a Lanvin dress with epaulettes and sleeves that looked like they came from a grandmother’s curtain.
The great Mademoiselle Chanel is probably rolling over in her grave! Swedish starlet Alicia Vikander (25) took to the red carpet in a very strange Chanel dress from the pre-spring 2014 collection
Ironically, the Australian model Lara Bingle (26) came to the premiere of the film “Sabotage” in a Dion Lee dress from the fall 2014 collection, which itself is a complete sabotage!
The performer of one of the central roles in the popular TV series “Glee” Lea Michele (27) came to celebrate the release of the 100th episode in a translucent Milly dress from the fall 2014 collection, reminiscent of the infamous outfit of a graduate from the Ukrainian hinterland, which became an Internet hit several years ago.
Game of Thrones star Nathalie Emmanuel, 25, chose a Georges ChakraCouture outfit from the spring 2013 collection that looked like she had attached an orange curtain to her trousers. Horrible accessories that didn’t match the outfit in any way completed the disastrous look.
The eldest of the daughters of the once Hollywood supercouple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Rumer Willis (25), walked around Los Angeles dressed as a skeleton, although Halloween is still very far away.
Singer Kaia Jones's (29) outfit would be more suitable for an intimate meeting than for the Grammy Awards red carpet.
British actress Rachel Wilde (35) not only came to the National Television Awards ceremony in a robe dress, but also deliberately demonstrated the underwear she was wearing underneath, holding the floors with her hands.
British Rihanna clone Rita Ora (23) continues to experiment with style, this time choosing an image called “Miracle in Feathers.” A gold chain made of cartridges around her neck and striped socks fit well into the image of a city madwoman.
Striped slippers with striped knee socks, and even a strange T-shirt with DKNY shorts - only a British clone of Rita Ora could dress up like this!
American actress Rosario Dawson (34) chose for the red carpet a baggy, shapeless and absolutely unflattering Diane von Furstenberg jumpsuit, the cut and print of which comes from the 70s of the last century. Orange (!) eye makeup completed the disastrous look. The rear view was also not the best.
It's sad, but Russian stars There are also bad outfits and here are some of them:
Russian fashion observer Anna Zyurova (33) decided to maintain good form and came to the show of designer Ulyana Sergeenko in a poncho she created from the new collection, more like pieces of a blanket fastened together.
Russian TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak (32) wore her best to the Dior show during Paris Fashion Week - a hat, round sunglasses, a leopard print coat, and Prada shoes decorated with butterflies. It turned out to be too much, just like the leaders Russian stage, whom she loves to criticize so much.
Self-proclaimed fashion victim Anna Dello Russo (51) looks grotesque as usual in a Prada coat and Chanel boots.
American-based singer Nadya Volyanova, who proudly calls herself “Russian Lady Gaga,” appeared at the Grammy ceremony in an outfit a la Masha Rasputin and with a “I fell off a dump truck, I was braking with my head” hairstyle.
To paraphrase the statement of a famous classic, we can say that all lucky stars are similar to one another, and the most incredible of them have unique problems. The universe is full of stars. But even among all this indescribable diversity, there are examples worthy of attention.
How long can a star live? First, let's define it: by the lifetime of a star, we mean its ability to carry out nuclear fusion. Because the “corpse of a star” can hang for a long time even after the end of synthesis.
Typically, the less massive a star is, the longer it will live. The stars with the lowest mass are red dwarfs. They can be between 7.5 and 50 percent solar mass. Anything less massive cannot undergo nuclear fusion - and will not be a star. Current models suggest that the smallest red dwarfs can last up to 10 trillion years. Compare this with our Sun, where fusion will take approximately 10 billion years - a thousand times less. Once most of the hydrogen is fused, the theory goes, the light red dwarf will become a blue dwarf, and when the remaining hydrogen is exhausted, fusion in the core will stop and the dwarf will become white.
The oldest stars
The oldest stars appear to be those that formed immediately after the Big Bang (about 13.8 billion years ago). Astronomers can estimate the age of stars by looking at their starlight - this tells them how much of each element is in the star (eg hydrogen, helium, lithium). The oldest stars tend to be composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, and are very most of mass is allocated to heavier elements.
The oldest star observed is SMSS J031300.36-670839.3. Its discovery was announced in February 2014. Its age is estimated at 13.6 billion years, and it is still not one of the first stars. Such stars have not yet been discovered, but they certainly could be. Red dwarfs, as we noted, live for trillions of years, but they are very difficult to detect. In any case, even if such stars exist, looking for them is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The dimmest stars
Which stars are the dimmest? Before we answer this question, let's understand what "dim" is. The further you are from a star, the dimmer it appears, so we just need to remove distance as a factor and measure its brightness, or the total amount of energy emitted by the star in the form of photons, particles of light.
If we limit ourselves to stars that are still in the process of fusion, then the lowest luminosity is found in red dwarfs. The coolest star with the lowest luminosity currently is the red dwarf 2MASS J0523-1403. A little less light - and we will enter the kingdom of brown dwarfs, which are no longer stars.
There may also be remnants of stars: white dwarfs, neutron stars, etc. How dim can they be? White dwarfs are slightly lighter but take a long time to cool down. After a certain time, they turn into cold pieces of coal that practically do not emit light - they become “black dwarfs”. White dwarfs take a very long time to cool down, so they simply don’t exist yet.
Astrophysicists do not yet know what happens to the matter of neutron stars when they cool. By observing supernovae in other galaxies, they can guess that several hundred million neutron stars must have formed in our galaxy, but only a small fraction of this number has been recorded so far. The rest must have cooled down so much that they simply became invisible.
What about black holes in deep intergalactic space with nothing in orbit? They still emit some radiation, known as Hawking radiation, but not much of it. Such lonely black holes probably glow less than the remains of stars. Do they exist? Maybe.
The brightest stars
The brightest stars also tend to be the most massive. They also tend to be Wolf-Rayet stars, which means they are hot and dump a lot of mass into strong stellar winds. The brightest stars also don't live particularly long: "live fast, die young."
The brightest star to date (and the most massive) is considered to be R136a1. Its opening was announced in 2010. It is a Wolf-Rayet star with a luminosity of approximately 8,700,000 solar and a mass 265 times greater than our home star. Once its mass was 320 solar.
R136a1 is actually part of a dense cluster of stars called R136. According to Paul Crowther, one of the discoverers, “Planets take longer to form than a star like this takes longer to live and die. Even if there were planets there, there would be no astronomers on them, because the night sky was as bright as the daytime sky."
The largest stars
Despite its enormous mass, R136a1 is not the largest star (by size). There are many larger stars, and they are all red supergiants - stars that were much smaller all their lives until they ran out of hydrogen, started fusing helium, and began to rise in temperature and expand. Our Sun will ultimately face a similar fate. The hydrogen will run out and the star will expand, turning into a red giant. To become a red supergiant, a star needs to be 10 times more massive than our Sun. The red supergiant phase is usually short, lasting only a few thousand to a billion years. This is not much by astronomical standards.
The most famous red supergiants are Alpha Antares and Betelgeuse, but they are also quite small compared to the largest. Finding the largest red supergiant is a very fruitless endeavor, because the exact sizes of such stars are very difficult to estimate for sure. The largest ones should be 1500 times wider than the Sun, maybe more.
Stars with the brightest explosions
High-energy photons are called gamma rays. They are born as a result of nuclear explosions, so some countries launch special satellites to search for gamma rays caused by nuclear tests. In July 1967, such US satellites detected an explosion of gamma rays that was not caused by a nuclear explosion. Since then, many more similar explosions have been discovered. They are usually short-lived, lasting only a few milliseconds to a few minutes. But very bright - much brighter than the brightest stars. Their source is not on Earth.
What causes gamma ray bursts? There are a lot of guesses. Today, most speculation boils down to the explosion of massive stars (supernovae or hypernovae) in the process of becoming neutron stars or black holes. Some gamma-ray bursts are caused by magnetars, a type of neutron star. Other gamma-ray bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging into one, or a star falling into a black hole.
The Coolest Former Stars
Black holes are not stars, but the remains of stars - but they are fun to compare to stars, because such comparisons show how incredible both can be.
A black hole is what is formed when the gravity of a star is strong enough to overcome all other forces and cause the star to collapse in on itself to a point of singularity. With non-zero mass but zero volume, such a point would theoretically have infinite density. However, infinities are rare in our world, so we simply don't have a good explanation for what happens at the center of a black hole.
Black holes can be extremely massive. Black holes discovered at the centers of individual galaxies can be tens of billions of solar masses. Moreover, the matter in the orbit of supermassive black holes can be very bright, brighter than all the stars in the galaxies. There may also be powerful jets near the black hole, moving almost at the speed of light.
The fastest moving stars
In 2005, Warren Brown and other astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced the discovery of a star moving so fast that it had flown out of the Milky Way and would never return. Its official name is SDSS J090745.0+024507, but Brown called it a "rogue star."
Other fast-moving stars have also been discovered. They are known as hypervelocity stars, or ultrafast stars. As of mid-2014, 20 such stars had been discovered. Most of them seem to come from the center of the galaxy. According to one hypothesis, a pair of closely associated stars (a binary system) passed near the black hole at the center of the galaxy, one star was captured by the black hole, and the other was ejected at high speed.
There are stars that move even faster. In fact, generally speaking, the further a star is from our galaxy, the faster it is moving away from us. This is due to the expansion of the Universe, and not the movement of the star in space.
The most variable stars
The brightness of many stars fluctuates greatly when viewed from Earth. They are known as variable stars. There are many of them: in the Milky Way galaxy alone there are about 45,000 of them.
According to astrophysics professor Coel Hellier, the most variable of these stars are cataclysmic, or explosive, variable stars. Their brightness can increase by a factor of 100 during the day, decrease, increase again, and so on. Such stars are popular among amateur astronomers.
Today we have a good understanding of what happens to cataclysmic variable stars. They are binary systems in which one star is an ordinary star and the other is a white dwarf. Matter from an ordinary star falls onto an accretion disk that orbits the white dwarf. Once the mass of the disk is high enough, fusion begins, resulting in an increase in brightness. Gradually the synthesis dries up and the process begins again. Sometimes a white dwarf collapses. There are enough development options.
The most unusual stars
Some types of stars are quite unusual. They don't necessarily have extreme characteristics like luminosity or mass, they're just weird.
Like, for example, the Torna-Zytkow objects. They are named after the physicists Kip Thorne and Anna Zhitkov, who first suggested their existence. Their idea was that a neutron star could become the core of a red giant or supergiant. The idea is incredible, but... such an object was recently discovered.
Sometimes two big yellow stars circle so close to each other that, regardless of the matter that lies between them, they look like a giant cosmic peanut. Only two such systems are known.
Przybylski's Star is sometimes cited as an example of an unusual star because its starlight is different from that of any other star. Astronomers measure the intensity of each wavelength to figure out what the star is made of. This is usually not a problem, but scientists are still trying to understand the spectrum of Przybylski's star.
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The science
Where do stars come from and where do they disappear? What are dark matter and dark energy? Is there life on other planets? Can stars live forever?
Despite huge amount of knowledge accumulated over many centuries, we still cannot explain many things. We can’t explain it because we don’t understand how this is even possible.
These are not necessarily some distant and unattainable objects and strange phenomena. Ordinary stars there are many secrets that have yet to be revealed. Find out what mysteries the stars pose to astronomers.
1) The oldest star that should not exist
The star, the secret of which scientists have yet to reveal, was named SDSS J102915 +172927 . Since there are too many stars in the Universe, and there can be thousands of subjects for research, it is not yet possible to give more understandable names to everyone. Strange name indeed indicates its approximate location.
In 2011, a group of European astronomers discovered this star in the constellation Leo. This star is small in size and is only 80 percent the size of the Sun. Moreover, researchers believe that it is approximately 13 billion years old.
Since the Universe itself, according to modern ideas, is already about 13.7 billion years old, this star may turn out to be the oldest famous star in the Universe. No particular oddities were noticed in this star, except that... there shouldn't be any trace of her.
The star consists of 99.99993% from hydrogen and helium, elements that are too light to condense and form stars on their own. If these data are included in any modern computer models, the programs will show that the existence of such stars is impossible.
So far, science is powerless to answer the question of how this star managed to form without heavier elements.
2) Mysterious star surrounded by spirals
Located about 400 light years from Earth in the constellation Lupus, the star SAO 206462 attracted the attention of astronomers in 2011. They were surprised not by the star itself, but by what surrounded it: it seemed as if the star had spiral branches that enveloped it.
Spiral formations are not something strange in space, they can often be seen in galaxies, but previously scientists have never seen any star have spiral branches
There are suggestions that the spirals formed due to the gravity of the planets, which formed from the dust surrounding the star. However, there is still no clear evidence to support this theory. This will remain a mystery until planets are found that could swirl matter around the star and form spiral branches.
3) Forever young special stars
Messier 4 - a globular cluster located at a distance of 7200 light years from Earth. If we imagine that galaxies also have a life cycle, then this galaxy would be almost at the very end of its life path. She is approximately 12.2 billion years old.
It is believed that all galaxies eventually turn into globular clusters. When all the gas and dust needed to form stars is depleted, all the stars in the galaxy will find themselves in the final stages of their life cycles.
When scientists looked at this special galaxy in September 2012 using telescopes in Chile, they saw a star that was rich in material such as lithium. Lithium is not an entirely unusual material for stars. But if it does exist, this component burns out during the first few billion years of the star's life cycle.
Since most of the surviving stars in this cluster are about 10 billion years old, finding a star with this element in its composition is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Scientists believe that this star is somehow replenishes lithium reserves, which protects it from aging. Many astronomers call it "a star - the fountain of eternal youth". How the star manages to replenish lithium is a mystery that astronomers are scratching their heads over.
4) Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy that manage to avoid black holes
This mystery involves several million stars opposing just one. Just 2.5 million light years away lies the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy. This galaxy looks like this:
At the center of this galaxy is a supermassive black hole, a huge vacuum cleaner that capable of absorbing even particles of light.
In 2005, the space telescope "Hubble" was able to allow scientists to see its center, revealing a blue pie-shaped disk there that was spinning at a very dangerous distance from the black hole. Further analysis showed that it was not just hot dust. The glow came from millions of young blue stars.
These stars were orbiting the black hole at more than 3.7 million kilometers per hour. This speed allows you to circle the earth's equator in just 40 seconds. A similar disk, based on the knowledge that we have. Shouldn't exist. The gas that formed this disk, as well as the stars themselves, would have dissipated due to the black hole's incredible gravity. How these stars ended up intact remains a mystery.
5) Massive stars with unusual properties in the constellation Ophiuchus
Star J1822.3-1606 belongs to a special type of stars called neutron stars. It is located at a distance of 20 thousand light years from us in constellation Ophiuchus.
Stars can end their lives three ways: turn into white dwarf (for example, smaller stars like our Sun), in neutron star (if the star is larger), or black hole (if the star is very huge). If stars are very massive, they explode. This phenomenon is called supernova .
Types of neutron stars: magnetars and pulsars
There are several types of neutron stars: magnetar with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe and pulsar , which sends beams of electromagnetic radiation through its poles (this is somewhat reminiscent of a lighthouse).
For many years, all we knew about these massive stars was that they can belong to either one group or another. But in 2011 the telescope "Swift" discovered a star that had properties of both groups. Today, astronomers know of 2 such unusual stars.
Scientists do not yet know how one star manages to have such strange properties. If we manage to discover other similar examples in the near future, this will mean that There are many more such stars in the Universe than we thought.
6) Exoplanet of the Phoenix constellation, which was supposed to be swallowed by its parent star
Far star Wasp 18 is located about 330 light years from Earth in the constellation Phoenix. It is about 25 percent more massive than the Sun. The mystery is not the star itself, but what revolves around it.
In 2009 Coel Hellyer from University of Kiel discovered that this star has a planet in its orbit. The exoplanet was named Wasp 18b , it is slightly larger than Jupiter, but 10 times heavier. This mass is the maximum limit. If it were a little larger, the object could be called brown dwarf – that is, a substellar object.
Giant planet and parent star
Astrophysicists were puzzled by the fact that the planet rotates from its home star at a record short distance- only 3.2 million kilometers. For comparison: Mercury is located 58 million kilometers from the Sun.
Planet Wasp 18b is so close to its star that it manages to make a full revolution around it in 23 Earth hours, and the temperature on its surface is 2200 degrees Celsius.
Being at such a close distance the planet must will eventually merge with a star, but it has not done so for 680 million years. Given the large mass of the star, it should have attracted the planet to itself a long time ago.
How did this planet manage to form and maintain orbit at a distance at which planets should not exist at all - a mystery shrouded in darkness.
7) Stardust finds its way home
Pulsar PSR B1257 +12 is a supernova remnant, but researchers did not expect that there could be planets near it. They discovered an entire star system. This pulsar is orbited by 3 ordinary planets and one dwarf planet.
Believing that such a phenomenon could be very common, astronomers began to observe other pulsars in search of planets, however, as it turned out, only one pulsar star harbored one single planet. This means that pulsars have planets in their orbits in very rare cases.
Formation of mysterious planets around pulsars
Astronomers cannot yet understand and explain the process that allows planets to form around pulsars. According to one theory, these planets were formed in almost the same way as our Earth - from planetary disk , which initially surrounds the star.
However, dust and any other materials that are the building blocks of planets must be thrown billions of kilometers into space when a supernova explodes. How were gas and dust able to return to the pulsar remaining after the explosion and form as many as 4 planets, is completely unclear.
8) An unusual supernova explosion in the constellation Monoceros
Star V838 Unicorn is located 20 thousand light years from Earth and is considered one of the largest stars in the Universe.
In 2002, a powerful flare was recorded on this star. At first, researchers believed that it was an ordinary supernova, a star that explodes, leaving behind a core (white dwarf) that accumulates a large cloud of hydrogen around itself. The star went out after a few weeks, as expected, so astronomers listed it in their reference books as a supernova.
Too strange a star to be a white dwarf
However less than a month later the star lit up again. Since the time interval between explosions was too short to cause another supernova explosion, astronomers were quite surprised and began to study this phenomenon in more detail. It became clear that from the very beginning they made a mistake by adding this star to the list of white dwarfs.
This star exploded on its own and repeated this process several times over the next months, flaring up and fading. During the brightest flare, it became a million times brighter than the Sun and appeared at that moment one of brightest stars in the sky.
Stars usually become brighter before they die, but measurements have shown that star V838 Monoceros was only a few million years old, which by stellar standards is quite a bit. Telescope "Hubble" took photographs of the star after the flare, which showed a cloud of gas and dust around it.
According to one version, this the star could have collided with some invisible object, for example, another star or planet, but scientists are still at a loss as to what actually happened.
9) Planet wanderer
CFBDSIR 2149 – 0403 counts brown dwarf . Thermonuclear reactions cannot occur in its core, so this object cannot develop into an ordinary torture star. Although many researchers characterize it as star AB Dorado due to its size and mass, others believe that it is gas giant.
If this is still a gas giant, then it doesn't have a parent star, which means it is an orphan planet.
The movements of lonely orphan planets are not at all chaotic
Although scientists suspect that in the Universe millions of lonely planets wander, today only 4 of them are known. The nearest planet wanderer is 130 light years from Earth. The planet does not have a major star to orbit around, so its motion is influenced by other stars in the AB Dorado star group.
This does not mean that the planet is moving in space along an arbitrary trajectory, this is a common misconception about wanderer planets. However, why the planet strayed from its parent star remains a mystery.
10) Disappearing stardust in the constellation Centaur
An object TYC 8241 2652 located 450 light years away in the constellation Centaur. The star is believed to be about the same size as our Sun and is about 10 million years old, although our star is much older at 4.5 billion years old.
From 1983 to 2008 scientists observed a ring of dust around this star, hoping to learn something new about our own system and exactly how planets form.
Where did the cosmic dust cloud go?
However, when they tested the star again in 2009 using more modern technology, they were amazed: they saw a star, but without any cloud around. Until relatively recently, this cloud was perfectly visible, but now it has disappeared, leaving behind not a single planet or hints of where it could have evaporated. Scientists are still pondering this mystery.
