This Might Be a Brand-New Kind of Star | Space News

Astronomers have theorized about an invisible star made up of theoretic particles in the past, but did we recently detect the gravitational waves of two of them colliding? Plus, extraterrestrial rocks from a decades-old mission keep yielding new discoveries! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencealert.com/there-could-be-transparent-stars-made-of-bosons-masquerading-as-black-holes https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/tcuo-ait022521.php http://128.84.4.18/pdf/2009.05376 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/spinc.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/bu-ars022421.php https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabe4641 Image Sources: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13197 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11206 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/257401.php?from=494157 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/257401.php?from=494157 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_basalt_70017.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vapor_Bubble_2.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunar_Sample_Lab_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Return_of_the_moon_diagram.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10843 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11894