The Most Disturbing Things Stargazers Have Seen From Deep Space

Some of the strangest, most unsettling things ever captured through a telescope aren't science fiction. They're real observations sitting in the data right now: a star that vanished without a sound, a cloud still glowing from a light that no longer exists, a hand of energy reaching across seventeen thousand light years. Here we walk through ten of the most disturbing things stargazers have actually seen staring into deep space, and what each of them really means. Chapters: 00:00 - The Red Rectangle 02:41 - The Hand of God 05:24 - V838 Monocerotis 08:21 - Hanny's Voorwerp 11:04 - The Black Widow Pulsar 13:49 - The Pillars of Creation 16:57 - The Star That Was Eaten 20:05 - The Zombie Star 22:57 - The Star That Vanished 26:01 - The First Photograph of a Black Hole Sources: 10. The Red Rectangle (HD 44179) — https://esahubble.org/images/potw1007a/ 9. The Hand of God (PSR B1509-58) — https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/200... 8. V838 Monocerotis's Light Echo — https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble... 7. Hanny's Voorwerp — https://news.yale.edu/2010/11/05/cosm... 6. The Black Widow Pulsar (B1957+20) — https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/200... 5. The Pillars of Creation — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/famous-... 4. A Black Hole Devouring a Star (AT2019qiz) — https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2018/ 3. The Zombie Star (SN 2012Z) — https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... 2. The Star That Vanished (Kinman Dwarf / PHL 293B) — https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2010/ 1.The First Photograph of a Black Hole (M87*) — https://eventhorizontelescope.org/pre... #eventhorizontelescope #pulsar